If you could change one thing in Vista, what would it be?

[hunky]

I would defenitely eliminate those popups that appear asking permission for everything.
That is so annoying....

 

[SantaCBear]

Ran Vista on a Desktop for 4 months , HATED IT

Running WinXP Pro again now...

 

[gewhite3]

I love Vista, and you can disable the pop-up messages you are referring to by turning off UAC (User Account Control). You can find out how by typing in UAC in Windows Help.

People have varying experiences with Vista and I think it's mainly because of hardware. I have a brand-new PC that was built for Vista and it runs perfectly. Never a blue-screen, no crashes at all, easy to use, beautiful interface. I really love it so far. Be careful though, a lot of people bash Vista and don't really know what they're talking about or haven't used it at all. I find it to be incredibly stable and it runs well on my particular PC.

 

[SantaCBear]

I will try it again in Jan '08 - I hear the SP1 will be out by then. Also I agree about the hardware issue. Need min P4/2K ram

 

[me12121]

The first thing I did when installing Vista was uninstalling UAC. The one thing I would change is being able to do fullscreen media center on a 2nd monitor while having firefox open and working on the first monitor. That should be easy to implement but I don't know why Microsoft doesn't.

 

[Orlandude]

GEWHITE3 makes a good point. I think VISTA is fine if you have a newer computer that was built for it. As a consultant, I've been inside many corporations that are not buying into VISTA because of this. They do not want to make the additional (and substantial) investment in new computers just to accommodate VISTA and Microsoft. On top of that, we all know that VISTA won't be the end-all. There will be something else BETTER than VISTA eventually. That's Microsoft marketing.

Personally, I'm happy with XP and see no reason to change. It serves my purposes very well and is compatible with most of my clients right now. When the day comes that I buy a new computer, I'm sure it will already have VISTA (or the next thing to come along) already installed on it. With the constantly evolving changes in software and platforms, I gave up rushing out to buy the "latest and greatest"....and most corporations are of the same mentality. Tomorrow it will be something else. It's the old thing of "if it works, why fix it?" I'm sure VISTA is great. I just have no reason to run out and buy it and, perhaps, find out that it's incompatible with half of my software.

 

[-live-]

I think all the extras (which are really good) that kind be found on Microsoft.com that are really good, should really just be included with Vista in first place.

 

[BrandonSBCA]

It's compatibility with drivers, my god! It needs to be changed so stuff can work just like they did with XP.

Also I would change Windows Movie Maker, give back the Capture feature! Vista's version of Movie Maker is retarded! Not everyone has a fucking DV camera.

 

[SeXcBoYz]

hmm great question, ive used vista for about a month its constant complaints about viewing media, makes me hate the basterd even more so, ill stick to my Linux . Many people say that people bash vista because there systems arnt good enough to run it, well ive got a Intel Q6600 Quad with 4GB Patriot 800Mhz memory over 800Gbs in harddrive space and a 8800GTS graphics adapter but at the end of the day the performance and overall disgusting design makes you wonder? what microsoft was thinking rebadging a competitors product

 

[sheep]

Change away from it.

 

[me12121]

Haha I love the way the packaging looks, but I literally spent an hour opening it the first time, and now my box is half broken. I wish they had instructions on how to open it.

 

[dodo2761]

there are a few things i like but pop ups asking you for permission and no drivers- annoying back on xp now!!!

 

[sheep]

Vista users, there is light at the end of the tunnel BUT

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8082557915.html