| I noticed that not many people said they liked Vista. The most common statement was that they got used to it. To me that is a sad commentary for an operating system that was supposed to bring so many improvements to PC owners.
I bought a Vista ready HP about a year and a half ago and upgraded to Vista when it was released to the public in early '07. Immediately upon installation, my HP all-in-one printer would no longer work with my HP computer. It took more than a month of calls to Rangoon tech support for me to realize that they were not prepared to cope with the Vista changes. By late summer a new driver was finally issued for the printer.
Then a little at a time other quirky things started going wrong. Almost everytime I tried to close IE7 it would give me a failure message and let me know that it was restarting forcing me to cancel the action if I didn't want it to restart. Switched to using Firefox most of the time after that. Then the desktop started refreshing on its own about every 5-10 minutes. I tried solving that problem for about 3 months and finally gave up. This slowed the computer down and if I had the All Programs stack open, it would close.
I finally admitted defeat and did a system restore to Windows XP this weekend and I'm feeling much better now. |