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I have eased into Vista over the last couple of months.\u00a0 I had too many critical programs on my old system to risk an upgrade.\u00a0 I\u00a0had my data backed up, but I could not\u00a0risk the chance\u00a0of some of my applications would not be able to handle the upgrade.<\/p>\n
I did a fresh install on a machine with 2 GB of RAM.\u00a0 I moved my good video card over with both of my monitors.\u00a0 So far I have had very few problems, but there is one\u00a0thing I can’t solve.\u00a0 I can’t get VNC to wake my machine up if the screen is locked.\u00a0 I run VNC and Hamachi on all my computers.\u00a0 The free version of RealVNC (my\u00a0favorite flavor) isn’t compatible with Vista.\u00a0 I tried Ultr@VNC and it worked until my password protected screen saver kicked in.\u00a0 Once that happens, there is no response from Vista.\u00a0 I don’t have hibernate turned on, but the screen password seems to kick the machine into a different video mode\u00a0that cuts the VNC connection.<\/p>\n
There are some huge positives in my short Vista experience.\u00a0 I love the Start menu.\u00a0 I click the Windows-Key and a letter or two of the program I want to start and Vista finds it.\u00a0 It does the same with documents.\u00a0 Actually, it works with anything.<\/p>\n
I do a lot of file renaming.\u00a0 F2 still does the trick, but Vista doesn’t automatically highlight the file extension.\u00a0 If I rename a file, the OS assumes I still want those last three letters to remain the same.\u00a0 It takes an extra click to highlight the extension to change it (which I rarely do).\u00a0 This is more efficient for me about 99.44% of the time.<\/p>\n
I use the Sidebar with a few widgets.\u00a0 I like the quick loading calendar that pops up with Windows-Space Bar.<\/p>\n
The snipping tool is great for quick screen captures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The user directories are much better.\u00a0 Everything is in a folder called “users” instead of “documents and settings” (what a dumb name).\u00a0 All the “my” prefixes are gone too.\u00a0 Now it’s “Documents”, “Pictures” and “Videos” instead of “My Documents”, “My Pictures” and “My Videos”.\u00a0 Vista also included a “Downloads” folder.\u00a0 This is something I have manually created on all my computers for years.\u00a0 Where else would anyone store downloaded programs?\u00a0 Finally it is built in and pre-programmed to communicate with applications that download files.<\/p>\n
The “User Access Control” isn’t nearly as bad as the Apple commercial<\/a> would have you believe.\u00a0 I get beeped once a day at most.\u00a0 As I get my machine tweaked, I will hardly see it at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have eased into Vista over the last couple of months.\u00a0 I had too many critical programs on my old system to risk an upgrade.\u00a0 I\u00a0had my data backed up, but I could not\u00a0risk the chance\u00a0of some of my applications … Continue reading