A big 10-4 on Vista, the most trouble free operating system I’ve ever used. Not one single problem, zero, zilch, nada, the best ever.
I agree with you two guys. I’ve been through all the Windows versions. Everything from playing video games, to downloading porn, watching FOX News, to using Photoshop and Dreamweaver at the same time— Vista has been the absolute best.
I dual boot with Vista HB and XP HE, on a Dell E520, 3.08ghhz cpu, 4.5 gb ram (a recent addition from 2.5, but found Vista only handles 3gb) And i use the computer extensively, from encoding to heavy heavy Internet use, and thank God for it all. But at least in the interest of improving things, i would like to add suggestions for Windows 7, mostly for navigation and speed, from was is missing with Vista (which overall better and more mature than XP, but the latter is clear faster.)
1. Change the default folder view to Details, and allow one to set what one chooses under that to every kind of folder (i have hundreds, and know “apply to all..” is spssd to do it. Fixes for this do not stay - Google for threads).
2. Fix the problem with Vista not remembering Windows sizes (again, Google for problems with attempted fixes)
3. Put the Up arrow back. It is often faster even after one learns the breadcrumb menu, and is needed when using folders without the navigation pane, which is helpful to eliminate due to Vista not remembering folder sizes. See free QTTab bar for this and more options worth incorporating. http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/
4. Allow moving of Task Bar buttons, and choosing different colors, as well as saving sessions, just like Firefox allows for tabs (Colorful Tabs extension for the color). Then copy more things from FF for IE. Or retire it. (doing research, I usually run 2 instances of FF concurrently, one of Sea Monkey and 1 of others if needed, and find IE the least to be preferred)
5. Allow right click to copy whole path in the address bar of folders (ctrl and c will do it now). And allow the same for copying things for 3 d boxes.
6. easily allow hot keys for fast launching (with free AutoHotKey you can make scripts to launch one, or even many many apps, etc. simultaneously - closest thing to a session saver)
7 Provide a master list of everything in the Control Panel, etc, (things like C:\Windows\System32\powercfg.cpl) for faster access. Stat menue should seldom need to be used.
8. Greatly improve Speech to Text (and vice versa) and commands to do the above (and turn on, off PC, etc.) so you can just say things like , “Go to ...” This has lots of potential, and as it is, Xp has not the like.
9. Improve ability to see incoming and outgoing Internet traffic.
10. Can UAC, and use something like Winpatrol.
11. Add options to clipboard, to remember all (like clipboard diary)
12. Improve clock (colors, + cpu load, free ram stats, etc.)
13. Allow changing file type icons on even basic versions of OS.
14. Put “copy to” and move to” as default options on right click menus (I have this).
15. Make it faster than Vista, which on a Dell E520 (3ghz cpu, 2.5gb ram) is slower than my W/98 (650mhz, 320mb ram) on basic tasks (navigating, opening folders), and slower than XP on the same PC. Even after tweaking and spare ram and low cpu load.
16. enable 32 bit OS to use more than 3gb ram.
I'm running Vista Home Premium on a Quad-Core 2.6Ghz and 4GB of ram. Aside from being a memory hog, It runs fine, runs all my old programs just fine, and as of this post the machine has been up and running 22 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes, 30 seconds without having to reboot.
XP on this same machine required a reboot about every 10 days.