Windows Vista

[riffer]

The ALT Tab thingie is now much much nicer too.

I disagree. It's completely bloody useless. What's the point of having all your windows hidden by the window in front of it.

Typical Microsoft letting eye candy cloud the idea, which is to help the user get information.

Look here for how it should be done.

[scracha]

I think you should be looking in the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run" section where applications are listed for starting up with Windows. It's also quite possible they're a service. Take a look in Control panel Administrative Tools services.

Note: The above is based upon Windows 2000/XP knowledge.

First place I looked dude. It's not in there. Did the services.msc thing too.

[scracha]

I disagree. It's completely bloody useless. What's the point of having all your windows hidden by the window in front of it.

Typical Microsoft letting eye candy cloud the idea, which is to help the user get information.

Look here for how it should be done.

I'm not sure what you mean. You press ALT-TAB and it shows you a thumbnail of all your open windows, TAB to the app you want and viola. I can't see how it's "eye candy" or how it hides other windows.

Right or wrong, the fact of the matter is that like most users I NEED to use whatever OS Microsoft supplies as most of the software (not to mention hardware drivers) out there is written for it. The not so small matter of the price of Apple hardware is another issue for most people.

I'm just saying that pressing ALT-TAB on Vista is miles better than on XP. There are many things I DONT like about OS-X. Pressing function keys or the tilde is a PITA if you're a touch typer. The minimise & close buttons are far too small and I think finder is bloody awful and completely counter-intuitive.

On the whole though, I like the OS-X interface, it spanks Vista and KDE.

[scracha]

Can't for the life of me find drivers for the TV card and the Scanner. Bugger...

Methinks I'll get plenty of work care of Microsoft's latest offering.

[scracha]

I take it back. The bundled mail application fails miserably when handling most IMAP servers. Back to Thunderbird for me.

[alexthekidd]

Well i just installed the Full Version fo Vista - Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit Edition, note full version, not beta or rc

really nothing to write home about, few flashy bits and pieces, runs fairly well but am not happy about no vista compatible drivers for mi card!!!

oh well will wait for drivers on the 30th and then await first DX10 games

[scracha]

Well i just installed the Full Version fo Vista - Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit Edition, note full version, not beta or rc

really nothing to write home about, few flashy bits and pieces, runs fairly well but am not happy about no vista compatible drivers for mi card!!!

On a corporate PC then? I'd take stable and useable over "flashy" any day.

[alexthekidd]

hmmm not exactly a corporate computer, maybe n RTm version i found on BT

[V4ME]

My IT guru/developer at work got a free evaluation copy - He says one of the downsides of Vista is that if you try playing illegal mp3's etc that the system will shut down!!! - anyone else heard of this?
Why do you have to have broadband to run Vista? (IS THIS TRUE)
Does Vista come with it's very own, clever, spyware?

[vifferman]

The S/W company I work for is redeveloping all our software to run on Vista, so I think most/all the developers have it.
Not me, I'm glad to say, and I'll try and stay clear of it, as my apps probably won't run on it.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Does Vista come with it's very own, clever, spyware?

Errr... its Windows... of course it does...???

[scracha]

Does Vista come with it's very own, clever, spyware?

Basically yes. It goes into "spastic" mode about that reduces it's abilities if it can't talk to it's evil overlords for 24 hours. Can you imagine the calamity when say, 90% of corporate desktops are running Windoze and the evil empire's servers go down?

Watch out for the BT versions of Vista, apparently about 80% of them come with some form of trojan.

[JimO]

i got a G5 imac 20 inch screen far better than any pc with or without vista

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

i got a G5 imac 20 inch screen far better than any pc with or without vista

same old same old...

my giga byte is bigger than your mega byte...

[scracha]

i got a G5 imac 20 inch screen far better than any pc with or without vista

Yawn. My 286 is faster than your Atari ST which is faster than your Acorn Electron which is faster than your Atari 800 which is faster than your Commodore 64 which is faster than your ZX81 which maybe spanks your Vic20, etc etc.

Why would anyone spend a fortune on a G5 and yet scrimp and get a measly 20 inch screen? I'm sure Gateway FX530 owners would just laugh at your setup.

FWIW I still use my ancient P2 Toshiba lapdog for email and surfing for the sole reason it chucks out a lot less heat than my "modern" one. Goes in the cupboard in winter tho