Tim
Life is good Joined: Nov 2007
Location: Kalamazoo

In response to the post 'Five features that must die in Windows 7'. It was illustrated that there are number of things in Windows that people don't like. To recap:
1. Windows Genuine Advantage
2. The Registry
3. ActiveX Controls
4. User Account Control
5. Windows Meeting Center

In all it's a fairly "OK" list and I could go either way on all of them. Well with the exception of WGA, that's gotta go. The registry is something that is needed. Well maybe not needed but its a great centralized resource for more settings in windows any every other windows based app out there. Of course it's not with out it's problems. It's TO big and quite frankly to prone for error and malicious intent. So yes it could use some tweaking, ok a lot of tweaking but as a network admin I'd hate to see it go, just to many fun things to change and play with.

ActiveX controls. Well this I truly could go either way on. Mainly because I don't know how to program them. But these to are very use to be misused and cause more harm than good to an unknowing person's computer.

UAC, this is the nicest feature in Vista I think. It allows for privileged and non privileged usage of the same app. Take the command prompt for example. If I'm just trying to find out my IP address or something similar I can do it with out having to worry about harmful code being executed. Then if I really need to do some dirty work in command prompt, I can. Because lets face it, some things are just more fun from a command line. Also this allows you to elevate privilege only when wanted. Or allow an app to run, or not run when you clicked on it by mistake. And what kind of fool runs as Admin on there machine anyways.

Windows Meeting Center. Well I've never used it, never will and if it's anything like Net Meeting back in the 98, 2000 era, it blows.

But above and beyond this sub-par list I see WAY to much bad press on Vista. And way to many naysayers saying that Vista is garbage. I'm on a 7 month old Lenovo Y510 laptop right now that is running Vista Ultimate, and you know what ... it's running perfectly. That's right perfect even with Visual Studio 2008 currently running an app, SQL Management Studio Express, SQL 2005 Express, 4 sessions of IE 7 each with multiple tabs, Windows Live Messenger, and Windows Media Player 11 running. A total of 68 processes.

Ya sure my page file is tipped over 2gb and memory usage is 1.2 gb of 2gb total. But the processor is rarely if ever hitting 5%. But that's what it's all about, why the hell else would you need 2gb of memory if not to run apps and use every last bit of it.

Oh and all my peripherals still work too. Oh wait I think I just figured out why everything works. I was smart enough not to try and make overly old, out of date, legacy apps and peripherals try and run. Sure it cost some money, but who wants a non-net-workable 600 DPI printer or a 300 max DPI scanner attached to there system anyways. I was also smart enough not to try and install in on my old POS AMD 2500 machine. Why was I smart not to do that, because I'm not an ass hat that wants to beat there head against a wall trying to make it run faster on there crappy computer thats not even good enough for a landfil. Then bitch about it "not working right" and complain because it's "to slow". All because there cheap asses didn't want to dop some coin on a nice computer.

Over all Vista is no different than any other Windows OS that hit the market, remember installing 95 from floppy disks? And how "huge" that was. And that was before the advent of 500+ gb drives. Hell that was when the average hard drive had less space than I do RAM. Bug it too had a TON of problems, not to mention that it didn't work correctly until 95b, the third go round of it.

So to all you Vista naysayers, suck it up and deal with it, or close your hole and switch to something with less tools, support, apps, and usability, oh wait I mean Linux. But then again I guess some people like that sort of thing.