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Vista Users

Ive got vista home premium on my new laptop and so far so good!

That annoying feature called UAC (user account control) where it asks you 'are you sure' all the time can be switched off. Go into the control panel, choose user accounts, select your username, then enable/disable user account control.

I also cannot stand the windows explorer, it seems to have taken a big step back in functionality. It seems like the operating system is catered more for home users that want to play media files rather than anyone who wants to use it for work. Hence the glitsy user interface and rip-offs from apple products.

I keep on hearing that a lot of users don't care for it. You have to turn to many things off before it will work half way right. We have it on our laptop, I don't care for it but my son likes it. Sometimes it is slow.

Not worth having norton on it. both are memory hogs.

I have Vista business on my laptop and it doesnt seem to have any really different features.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/default.aspx

Norton is shite. Some folks near me were having loads of probs with it,
so I told them to get rid and try Avast instead. After all kinds of issues,
the fact is that to uninstall Norton you either have to try and do it in
SAFE MODE and/or get an uninstall utility from Norton's site ...hmmmm :

XP SP3 seems to give some people problems on AMD systems. There
are fixes etc on Microsoft and elsewhere.

Vistaaaaargh is crap imho ... tried it ....hate it. My son loves it, but
ended up buying another HD to run/dualboot XP on because Vista
still does not run half the stuff he uses. Microsoft is actively developing
the successor to Vista in the hope that business and retailers will like
that when it comes. Meanwhile XP's product life and support has been
extended past its original planned sellby date.

A couple of things really annoy me with Vista.
The horizontal navigation ....if you are drilling DOWN to some file, then
going sideways is not intuitive.
The dumbing down of stuff like defrag ....grrrrrrr.

Regular housekeeping keeps XP running fine .... disk cleanup, defrag,
and registry and crap cleanup with CCleaner works wonders 

Do you hate it because after 4 or 5 years you're comfortable with XP and there are new ways of doing things in Vista? Or do you hate it because Vista is unstable?

From the comments I have read here and elsewhere, most people hate Vista because it's different. I remember some of the same comments every time we get a new Windows OS. And most of the tech problems seem to be from underpowered systems or people trying to run old hardware or old software.

If I was designing my own OS I certainly would forget about trying to make it work with every bit of old hardware and software. Because of all of the labor and testing involved that wouldn't be profitable. Sure, it's a pain (and costly) for some users. But they probably should have upgraded long ago. I ran the Vista compatibility test the other day and the only issues it pointed out were an aged network card and an old piece of software that  I haven't used in two years.

For me, the most important points about an OS are long term stability followed by overall security. Usability is important as well. But there have been many times when I purchased the latest version of a widget and got frustrated because something changed with it, But after working with it a while I realized that the change was for the better. I'm hoping it will be that way with Vista.

I still haven't made the switch, but I will after I finish up this big project that I am working on.