I was referring to the “user friendly” features of Vista, like the weird docks with clocks, calendars and all that crap, cluttering the desktop and hogging memory.
I uninstalled every “feature” I could but Vista was still awful.
Considering that Microsoft later admitted that certain aspects of Vista were *deliberately* designed to annoy the user...
As for the widgets, sidebars and such - those were tacked on to approximate features that had cropped up in Mac OS X and the most advanced Linux user environments since XP had come out. In typical MS style they weren’t very good or well thought out.