VISTA is EEEVILLL!!! (addendum)

Thursday, 19. June 2008, 21:43:00

My laptop crashed & burned last ~~night~~ week after an unsolicited Windows XP "Update" & I was forced to get a new laptop PRONTO! It has Vista. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

VISTA!!!!!!!!!

JUNKWARE!!! I'm being devoured by JUNKWARE!!!

addendum:

OK... I'm not hating it as much as I was. I've uninstalled quite a bit of the crapware, and I've trained (most) of the programs to quit telling me what to do--

but reeaally...

you shouldn't have to beat your operating system into submission before you can use your own damn computer!

First opportunity I get, I'm partitioning my hard drive and installing Ubuntu Server on this machine with a dual boot...

I'm serious, Ballmer!!!

Orwell SPELLED IT O U T IN 1984: Perpetual WarMom Turns 90!

Comments

I'm sorry.
"tpo"?

By Dacotah, # 13. June 2008, 08:22:22

While I like you and think you're "da bomb", I loves me some Vista! *ducks & covers*

I'm sorry...Microsoft holds a special place in my nerdy heart.

By Nerak, # 13. June 2008, 09:38:07

Carol, "tpo"?

Whatever do you mean?

};-)>

By rfhurley, # 13. June 2008, 17:46:58

I dunno

By Dacotah, # 13. June 2008, 17:48:18

Now now, it's not good to hold those negative feelings inside. C'mon, out with it: tell us how you really feel.

Overall, Vista's been working out well for me, but I bought an OEM copy and installed it myself, which I gather makes a difference. PC vendors tend to load up new PCs with bunches of trialware and junk; is that the sort of thing you're having trouble with?

By Lagged2Death, # 13. June 2008, 17:50:56

Karen, I'm glad you're having good results with Vista.

My question is this:

How did you get it to stop sucking?

(for oh so many reasons...)

I spent the first few hours of my time with my new computer editing out literally gigabytes of crapware (which really bytes-- it's like weeding out the advertising sections of the Sunday paper that you don't want, and for which they charge an extra buck).

The problem is that the computer is still doing what IT wants, whenever it feels like doing it, and I'm trying to strip out any superfluous crap I don't want or need, without crashing the computer entirely.

Any tips would be greeaatly appreciated.

By rfhurley, # 13. June 2008, 17:54:12

tpo

what lingo is that?

i've not had to move over to the vista and i'm not sure i want too either, even if they tell me xp is out of date.

hell, i used win98 up until my computer hardware not software carshed in 2007!

i also used dos 2.0 up until about 1992 . . . does anyone remember when basic language was popular?

By 1bluebox, # 13. June 2008, 20:49:45

um... in this case, tpo was a typo fot "to", which I have since corrected...

By rfhurley, # 14. June 2008, 02:18:40

My daughters lap top uses Vista and it is the Spawn of Satan

By CaptainPenguin, # 14. June 2008, 15:58:02

Never this again? Go for MAC! After 20 years weasting my time with Microsoft products, I decided to give a try to MAC and MAC OS X (keeping the chance to run my Microsoft's only softwares in a Windows with Parallel).
It took me only 2 weeks to great with MAC OS X! Since then (2 years), I love computers again

Mac Experience is something MUCH MUCH better than Microsoft Experience! Beleive Me and thing about this next time you have to buy a computer... Good luck. Frédéric.

By frederic.sagaer, # 15. June 2008, 07:00:46

I know Microsoft get slagged off and I do admit to using the likes of Open Office and Firefox in addition to Opera but I have used XP for years and it has been a solid stable operating system and I have no problems with it.

But Gates cannot leave a good thing alone and so we get sodding Vista

By CaptainPenguin, # 18. June 2008, 18:47:51

The MS theory seems to be "When you've got it pretty much right, launch a replacement". My sister still has W95FE running on one of her machines, she's managed to get it to do all manner of stuff that it's not supposed to do, and what a speed it works at these days! Oddly enough she likes Vista.

Me, I loaded up Linux after a hardware upgrade crashed W98 and in short order I had to upgrade to W98SE then WinME before being told I would have to upgrade again to XP... I'm now so hooked on running the software that MS won't be running until their next OS upgrade that even my mum's Mac seems a little old hat now.

By Deke, # 22. June 2008, 11:28:52

i'm staying away from vista after all the negative comments i've heard. not just here, but all over the place. i have been puzzled and curious, but i'm not going to mess with it.

my xp is doing just fine. as a matter of fact my hp presario is running just plain sweet. and with a 500 gb external, finally, i have no worries.

By I_ArtMan, # 14. August 2008, 18:54:08

I bought a 500 gig external, then afterwards I worked out that all the drives I've had over the years now amount to over a terra.

Probably no worries for months yet then.

By Deke, # 16. August 2008, 14:30:59

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