Okay, Anyone Doing the Sims/Vista Rhumba?
Assmitten:
Quote from: witch on 2007 March 30, 07:56:59
No more Vista Rhumba for me. This morning I woke up and knew I didn't want Vista in my life anymore. I was sick of the networking issues, how I had to fight to get an admin account, how many drivers are not yet available and even how the defrag wouldn't show me how far along it was, let alone a pictorial representation. I hated the clumsy Windoze Explorer interface which preferred to show me little groupings of folders instead of the contents of my hard drives. Yay, it's all gone. Formatted and dead. No more Vista, no more rules. ;D No more bloody 9GB HP partition uninvited on my hard drive.
It was an interesting journey. Thirty minutes on the phone to Microsoft, two Indian men who only wanted a number from me, an English chap who understood I was 'down'grading from Vista Business and a nice young woman who completed the activation. I was concerned that I had used a Win XP Pro product key that belonged to the educational institution where I work, I emailed MS helpdesk here. An MS rep rang back about an hour later and basically reassured me that no-one ever checks on anything but businesses and volume licenses. Hmmm.
The HP site had no WinXP Pro drivers for my model laptop. So I tried their online chat to a technician. Cool feature, she gave me the mainboard and video drivers. Unfortunately the wrong video driver which had a craptacular result of fuzzy dancing columns of colour. Once I sorted that out - and tried a number of other drivers - I went back to the HP chat and a helpful young man ftp'd all the drivers I needed. Excellent service. Welcome back XP, all is forgiven.
This is very inspiring to me. I have been thinking about doing this as well. I have customized a lot of my settings, etc, but I still feel like I'm hobbled by it daily. I don't want to be a beta tester anymore! :'(
witch:
Quote from: Assmitten on 2007 April 03, 23:05:11
This is very inspiring to me. I have been thinking about doing this as well. I have customized a lot of my settings, etc, but I still feel like I'm hobbled by it daily. I don't want to be a beta tester anymore! :'(
Friends don't let friends use Vista - break free of those chains.
Have you tried to open the Documents and Settings folder yet? Even as admin?
ACCESS DENIED!
WTF?!? This is my damn PC and I'll open any damn folder I like. I like to edit the start menu and put a copy in all users, I think it is - or default user.
Let me in Vista - or you die.
OK. You die.
Venusy:
Quote from: witch on 2007 April 04, 06:47:35
Have you tried to open the Documents and Settings folder yet? Even as admin?
ACCESS DENIED!
WTF?!? This is my damn PC and I'll open any damn folder I like. I like to edit the start menu and put a copy in all users, I think it is - or default user.
Eh?
Vista doesn't have a Documents and Settings folder (unless it's one you transferred from an XP install). If that's the case, then right-click on the folder, select Security, then Advanced, then Owner, then Edit. Allow the UAC prompt, select either your name or the Administrators group, and check the box next to "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects". Hit OK to everything, and it should work now.
notveryawesome:
I have to admit, that is a very pretty interface. Apparently, Vista is trying to make Windoze look like a Mac. :P
witch:
OK, maybe it was called user settings or something. Maybe also because I disabled the UAC first thing, I turned off an AWFUL lot of crap. Maybe I completely borked Vista! ;D
ETA: Yes, it's very pretty - which is why I gave it a chance. I loved the way you could choose your own colours for the UI and I loved the swirly green/blue desktop image. Otherwise - meh.
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