I hate Vista.....

[poltr1]

Some good news: My new machine FINALLY came in this afternoon! After taking everything out of the boxes, making a note of all the serial numbers, connecting eveything together, and firing it up, I have.....

Windows Vista Basic edition.

It's OK as an OS, but nothing is as as it was. Nothing's where I'd expect it. Navigation is different. I can't even restore a backup I made on my previous XP box. And I can't find the hosts file that I need to add our site's servers to.

My productivity is going through the floor as I'm trying to get everything set up the way it was.

And I just got an emergency change to add a selection control to a form.

Grr! Argh!

Comments

[ocean-star.livejournal.com]

I hate Vista, too! My parents have it on their brand new comp, and I really hate having to use it. It's so unstable! Constant crashes and freezes, and there are some websites I use that I can't access from Vista.

[filkergem.livejournal.com]

I've gone from Windows 98 on my main computer to Vista - quite a change! It's pretty, though I am slowly turning off merely cosmetic things that suck up processor (and battery) power! Many of the changes seem to be good ones, in the long run, though getting used to the new way of doing things does take some time.

The hosts file is in Windows\System32\drivers\etc as a quick google for vista hosts file location told me. I also found it with a search on the computer, once I found where to tell it "yes, show me the location of system files". Now, to figure out how to make that the default.

Have fun with the new computer!

[gorgeousgary]

Of course the first question that crossed my mind was "is the 'close' box on the left now the 'close' box on the right?" 8-)

(Actually, it would be vice versa, I suppose...)