It’s Vista Day
Setting up my new computer, unfortunately orders got switched (dell didn’t register the first order, and then screwed up the second) and I’m stuck with Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit), and too little RAM (seems like 4gigs is the sweet spot).
Having said that, I’m pretty pleased with Vista. The user interface is much more userfriendly than XP, I love the new “Start Search”. I am not sad to see multiple levels of fly-out menus getting thrown out.
One thing that is a bit annoying is all the security checks that you have to go through to do simple things.
Delete file:
Windows Explorer asks if you want to do this
Windows asks if you want to allow Windows Explorer to delete files
I get an alert that I am making changes to the configuration and get asked to confirm.
Obviously this is just the first time, so I guess I can live with it.
Will post more updates in my shiney new Vista category. Oh yeah… and I can’t seem to install firefox…
February 21st, 2007 at 9:11 pm
I’ve got a copy of Vista Business Edition that I’m going to install in VirtualPC here sometime in the next couple days, just to play with it a bit before I plow through my install here. I want to make sure it’ll work with some of the odd-ball (and horribly dated) applications I have to work with on a daily basis before I commit to using it full time. I just wish I had an extra gig or two of ram to throw at it (my primary workstation — my laptop — has a gig in it right now).
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:47 pm
so far the only program that had trouble was my anti-virus program Avira. Then again, I am not using a lot of really old stuff…
February 25th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Got Vista Home Basic on my new Dell and the first thing I changed back to classic view was the start menu. (Doooh!) Old habits die hard. Other than that I’m pretty happy with it. Only thing that doesn’t seem to work properly with Vista is my [several year old] scanner. Oh well.