Re: Camera Card Reader

David J Taylor wrote:
Allen wrote:
Vista vs. the rest?
Well, for a start:
Totally non-intuitive, in many ways, compared to Win XP and 98.

Yes, I agree it's different. I've used it long enough now to find that there are quite a lot of aspects I like, but it's not without its learning curve. Did you find a similar problem moving from 98 to XP?

Too much "security" in home versions. I don't want to fool with admin
rights.

Accepted, but I think that's a positive point. not a negative one. We'll have to agree to disagree here.

I have had to use the Restore feature perhaps 6 times since July; I
never had to use it with XP.

That's more times than I would expect. Is that on the same hardware?
Yes.

Right now, although everything seems to be in place for WMP, it won't
run; to restore it, I'm told by many knowledgeable people that it is
necessary to reinstall Vista, as there isn't a repair facility.

You must have tried the System File Checker?

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2231/vista_run_system_file_checker/
Tried it. After a few minutes I went to Task Manager and got a "Not Responding" message for it.

I have also seen issues with WMP, but they have been caused by 3rd party software. Removing the bad software restores full function.

These are a few of my issues; you can find tens of thousands of gripes
in Google. And, if it's so damn good, why does MS keep extending XP
support? As I said in my post, I've had 54 years of dealing with
computers, and I've not seen anything to compare with it. A huge step backward for MS
in my (and others') opinion. I've known and used IBM 1401 AL, 360/370
AL, Fortran, IBM PL/1, COBOL, IBM Series I with Waterloo OS, CPM, Wang
Basic and close to a dozen other Basics, most versions of MS software
for PCs, both DOS and Windows, also a little Pascal and a few 4GLs.
I've been around the block a few times with computers.
Allen

Similar experience here, Allen, starting with building computers at school in the 1960s.

It does seem that Vista hasn't been as successful as some might have hoped, but I do think that it doesn't deserve all the bad press it's had. Windows 7 will be based on Vista, I understand, so it will give folk a breathing space in UI changes, and perhaps allow some of the tardier software and hardware vendors chance to catch up. I suspect that had Vista simply been XP with the security enhancements, people would still have complained.

Cheers,
David
I think we'd better agree that Vista works for some, but there are huge numbers of people who hate it. It certainly is not MS's finest hour. They keep supporting XP and are rushing 7 through (perhaps too fast). That tells me something.
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