Re: Jef!


"Kathleen" <lovebirds1201@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Did you get used to your Vista??? Inquiring minds want to know.
With hope and major frustration,
Kathleen

Yeah, I have, actually.
A glitch or 2 early on, but it all got smoothed out. I like the
cycling/cascading pages effect where you can rotate thru your open programs,
and I like the variable ability to display a folder's contents as tiles,
lists, detailed info or even small, medium or large icons. There are other
bells and whistles that accompany it that I just don't seem to have any
day-to-day use for.

The Windows Media Gallery is annoying and I find it hard to use-- so I don't
bother with it. The Vista Sidebar feature (kind of like the Mac's gadgets
or gizmos or whatever they call it) is so much superfluous frippery. ( I
don't need a separate calendar and calculator and weather report window, or
digital sticky notes, thanks...)

This is a true clone, assembled from parts, generic-type PC, running Windows
Vista-- yet I use iTunes for all my music files. For my graphics work I use
either Photoshop CS2 or PaintShop Pro, so a lot of the strictly
Windows-based capabilities aren't much use to me-- though I do use Windows
Media Player as the default viewer for my MPEG, AVI and WMV video files. I
have Quick Time for .MOV files. I still happily get along just fine with
Outlook Express for mail and news, and use Norton Anti-Virus in conjunction
with the built-in Windows Defender software to keep running smoothly and
block unwanted crap. I mostly use Firefox for browsing, because I hate IE's
popup messages about all sorts of things it's fussy about displaying.

All in all, I'd have to say the transition wasn't quite the conflagration
I'd feared it might be-- nor am I as bowled over as I was prepared to be. My
breath hasn't been taken away thru sheer dazzlement, yet. It's not *THAT*
great a stretch beyond XP, in my opinion. Then again, I'm not the kind of
user who clocks everything and measures each little thing for optimum
performance, cranking the system to its utmost. There's a lot under the hood
I'll most likely never even *look* at. As far as web surfing, web page
construction and site maintenance, file and graphics sorting and management,
playing music and games, and reading and sending mail and newsgroup messages
goes-- my main activities-- it handles it all very nicely. Don't be afraid
of it, if you're considering making the switch.


.

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