Re: Windows Vista beta 1

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:35:12 -0500, Polychromic <macecil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Can someone explain how making a window translucent helps you use it? I
>just don't get that. It clutters the foreground window and the windows
>behind it are really too blurry to read. You can't click on the hidden
>windows or type into them. Is there some reason not to just use alt-tab
>or the taskbar to manage your windows? I don't get it.

Not only don't I get it, I don't get it. You mean a window that you
can *see through* to what's underneath??? That sounds annoying as
hell.

>IE7's tabbed browsing is oddly configured. With Firefox you have tabs
>immediately above the page (at least that's how I have it) but with IE7
>the tabs are above the menu bar. There doesn't appear to be a way to put
>the tabs below the menu bar so it kind of anti-ergonomic. Weird.

Please tell me tabs are an option. (They should be, but this is MS
we're talking about.)

>
>Every window has a bar with history back and forward buttons and an
>address field. Apparently no way to disable that.

Yup, they're trying to turn Windows into the internet. I'm waiting
for when there is no separate IE at all.

>
>There are a LOT of new services running. Not super easy to find out
>however because in Admin Tools there is no longer an icon to access the
>Services.

What a shame. That was one of the few things about XP that I thought
was an improvement. Now it looks like they want to make it difficult
to get there.

> You can still get there through Computer>Manage however I
>wanted just a shortcut for services.msc on my desktop so I made one. :)
>
>I was able to figure out some of new services and disabled a lot of them
>without any ill effects, except one called something like User Experience
>Service. When I nuked that, Vista quit loading my settings so I had to
>re-enable it.

User Experience Service??? That even *sounds* retarded.

>
>Ah, speaking of users, each user profile is now stored in
>C:\Users\<username> instead of in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>.
>All of them except the All Users profile that is. Yep, now there is a
>C:\Documents and Settings folder AND a C:\Users folder. I think this
>might just be an oversight. I hope it is. I always hated that long
>Documents and Settings folder name and would rather have a nice short
>Users instead.

I'd rather not be forced into having users at all. I've always HATED
that. That whole folder is one big pain in the *** to begin with,
but pulling All Users and separating it will just make it a bigger
pain in the ***. I don't suppose they've added an option to turn the
damn thing off, have they? (Or really, it should be off, with an
option to turn it on.)

But you have a point -- a shorter name is better. And at least it's a
*logical* name. Pretty much to the point.

>
>Well, thank god that stickykeys still requires 5 presses of
>the shift key before it is activated.

You know, those stupid stickykeys ruined my pinball game the other
night. I normally don't even play that kind of stuff, but it happened
to come with a box 'o games I got, and I've always been good at
pinball so what the heck. And it uses the shift key for the bumpers.
So guess what....

>
>However, the most annoying and brain damaged thing, the single design
>change that will utterly prevent me from every buying or recommending
>Vista is the absence of the List view in Explorer. Sure they've dumped
>some new filtering and preview features into Explorer. You can now have
>it show itty bitty thumbnails for every file instead of just file type
>icons. There is a preview pane you can use and shift from the bottom of
>the Explorer pane to the middle - whichever you like. There are ways to
>group and stack files. But there is no simple, usable List view
>available. Jim Allchin needs to be kicked in the nads if that was his
>idea.

Yeah, not too happy about that one. I actually usually have the icons
on for most folders, but the list comes in handy for certain things.
(Mostly folders where the list of stuff is big.) I hate the
thumbnails and I actually hate the grouping stuff. I wasn't too happy
the first time I went into My Computer and everything was grouped, but
that was before I figured out the setting options. One of these days
they're going to have it totally ruined, and create so many options
that simple just won't exist at all anymore.


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