[DUG] [DUG-Offtopic] new PC

[Peter Hyde]

> What sort of extra Vista stuff did you turn off?

I have a very long tweaks list (not all Vista specific); if I prune
it a bit for anything sensitive, I can email it your way if you like.
Such things are very personal, of course.

> 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.

Aye. And a lot of it was related to their desired security model,
firewalling and so on. Which, on the whole, has worked well.

> D2007 runs very well with 4GB memory, a big improvement from when I

I've been in 2GB for a while, recently upping to 3, but also running
a  4GB SD card for ReadyBoost 'n such.

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

Very rare, but I see that occasionally. Or a spontanous reboot going
into sleep mode (that's what it looks like anyway). Could be drivers
I guess, but too rare to bother trying to track.

> -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

Never seen that. I'm usually resuming from Sleep mode; I don't
hibernate, and only reboot about once a week.

> These are computers that you have had Vista installed for a while
> then? Did you start with SP1 or upgrade to it?

I think I went right to SP1 at the time I installed V64 about 14
months ago.

cheers,
peter

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