From: "Robert Comer" 

> They got rid of the dog and made it easy to search even the system files.
> Went a bit too far but I can live with it.

Search is the biggest problem I have with Vista, it takes up way too much
CPU and rarely finds what I'm searching for.

--
Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
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>
>> So if we ignore the fact that you find Vista totally unacceptable and
>> will not use it, what things in VISTA do you like better than in XP and
>> what new features do you find worth having over XP??
>
> They got rid of the dog and made it easy to search even the system files.
> Went a bit too far but I can live with it.
>
> Task manager shows users as well as network etc.
>
> Event viewer has been enhanced making it more useful.
>
> IE7 is more secure than previous versions and allows me to set google as
> my default search without putting up a fight.
>
> Default config is firewall on and file sharing off.
>
> Gadgets are cool
>
> Tile view of the drives shows a graph of used space
>
> Folder sync is pretty cool.
>
> If you copy a file across the network and the network is momentarily lost,
> the copy doesn't fail, instead it gives you a "retry" option
that picks up
> right where it stopped. VERY NICE feature.
>
> Quick start "switch between windows" is nice
>
> Overall it's not near as insulting, I don't have a lot of complaints about
> wizards forcing themselves on me or the system changing my settings.
>
> Oh, sticky notes are sort of cool.
>
> On the down side,
>
> no raw sockets sucks (we are not children)
>
> tcp connect limits suck (they affect file sharing, network scanning, etc
> again we are not children)
>
> Activation sucks
>
> DRM sucks
>
> Copy protection sucks
>
> Solitaire sucks (the new version)
>
> Media player 11 sucks
>
> Aero sucks the life out of a computer for no good reason.
>
> Geo.

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