Windows Vista…
I found it. The laptop.
I walked by it in a store and it was the one.
It was sort of like finding the man of your dreams…
… only this was way better!
Or so I was led to believe, then I got it home. I started stripping off all the add ons. By the time I had finished deleting everything I was so sick of the windows vista “Are you sure you want to remove this program?” for stuff like the friggin’ AOL Trial for crying out loud! By the time I was done getting all of my stuff installed on it, I was ready to divorce Vista and go back to my E-XP.
You know things are bad when the dude at Best Buy says, “We’ve still got some copies of Windows XP if you want it. When I took mine home, the first thing I did was rip Vista off of there.”
We’ll see. Vista may not be long for this world…
July 29, 2007 12:41 am 
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By Marah Marie, July 29, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
Vista’s not the problem; the pre-installed crap is. You can disable UAC so you’ll stop getting all those Windows warning messages. Just Google “remove UAC” and you’ll see. If I remember correctly (since I’m not using Vista at the moment) it’s just a line in the registry or two that you change or remove. Making sure you’re using the Admin account in Vista speeds things up, too; in fact, it’s the only way you can get anything done.
XP with pre-installed crap on it is no picnic, either; all the confirmation dialogs during the uninstall process, the restarts, the registry editing and cleaning, the leftover file removal. No picnic at all. They’ve gone and made it a few steps harder with UAC in Vista, is all.
By Random Gemini, July 30, 2007 @ 9:28 am
I think you’re right. It’s just that it’s been about four years since I’ve had to deal with new operating system blues and I forgot how much griping I did about XP when I got my last machine back from the repair facility after they replaced its hard drive.
When I went back through my paper journals and looked at the week or so after I got my previous machine, I chuckled and calmed down quite a bit.
So far I’m really liking Vista. It hasn’t blown up in my face. The only real worry I have is whether photoshop 5.5 will run under it, and Adobe claims that attempting this is a “crapshoot”, in spite of documentation elsewhere on the internet that’s to the contrary. I still have yet to find an actual person who has experience installing this ancient version of photoshop on a vista machine, so I’m waiting and considering switching to Gimp.
That’s an entirely different post though.
By Marah Marie, August 4, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
GIMP might be a better idea, but I don’t know. Doesn’t Vista have “Run in compatibility mode for [OS name]“? If so, you could give that a shot. I’m using compatibility mode to run an old (but really neat) printer I picked up, so I know it works on XP.
By Random Gemini, August 4, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
I don’t know yet, so far gimp is working out for me, so I’m letting it be and getting used to gimp. I will look into that though and let you know what I find out.