[DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC

[John Bird]

What sort of extra Vista stuff did you turn off?

I think the extra crap in Vista comes from its origins in the Windows Server 
2003 code base, there are parts of Vista that look very much like server 
admin tools - such as the Reliability Monitor under Control Panel/Admin 
tools.

Vista works fine for me too.....I also noticed a lot of the glitches 
disappeared over time, likely from Windows updates - such as networks that 
didn't reconnect after moving from one to another - they really fixed that 
and its now way better than XP.

D2007 runs very well with 4GB memory, a big improvement from when I only had 
2GB, particularly obvious when calling up functions like refactoring which 
used to have a slow load time - I presume it was swapping in.  It didn't fix 
the MS Document Explorer (help) though, which still takes ages to load and 
for good measure locks the PC up while it does so.  Once loaded its fast, 
but it really makes one hesitate to press F1 for context help.

Only remaining gripes are

-Occasionally fails to resume after suspend, and I lose everything open. 
(So I record what windows are open as part of the suspend).

-After resume there is a long wait (20-30 sec) while a dialogue pops up 
saying "Windows Explorer is not responding - do you want to Wait/Close the 
program/Restart Explorer?".   How that one ever got past their QA I don't 
know, it looks just embarrassing.  It does however come to life eventually.


John

>
> I have less RAM, and only dual core, but Vista 64 has been fine for
> me for over a year. Naturally I turned off indexing and tweaked a lot
> of senseless as-installed features.
>
> I don't particularly miss Vista when I switch to an XP or server
> edition though. Nice backup...
>
> cheers,
> peter
>