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Thu, 08 November 2007 20:20  |
Kim
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Registered: October 2005
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I thought I would share with you some of the things I learned in my first
Windows Vista experience.
Firstly, the basic OS layout seems quite similar to XP and previous Windows
versions. Some things have been graphically shunted around, but conceptually
the menus appeared to be very similar in content. The "Start" button is now
just a ball with a Windows logo on it, but you know what it is from its location
at the bottom left. Other things have changed in a similar way. Clicking
on this "Start" button, which I presume may have a new name as the word "Start"
is now absent, brings up a menu which includes what I think is a fairly nifty
scrolling window, in which your "All Programs" menu appears. Hence "All Programs"
is always visable, and doesn't branch off across your main monitor like it
used to. It's another of the apparently many gui changes which appear to
have been designed fairly well in terms of improving functionality while
having a fairly easy learning curve. At this end the OS is nice it seems.
And then you use it. ;o)
Even if you haven't seen the Mac ads, I'm sure you have heard somebody talk
about...
"An unauthorised program is attempting yada yada - Allow / Decline"
Well, welcome to the future.
I wasn't surprised to get this program when installing software. I had been
warned, and although my mouse click on install was just a fraction of a second
before the Allow / Decline prompt, bringing forth questions as to how quickly
doubt can occur about such things, I accepted that you don't install software
all that often, and being very system critical it doesn't hurt to double
check.
It was a couple of minutes later when I became apparent that people weren't
kidding.
While I was dismayed when the USB stick, which I had just removed from an
XP machine which confirmed files onboard, showed up, but was reported as
empty. That was odd. Removing it, rechecking the files in XP, and then putting
it back, did, for whatever reason, cause Vista to display the files.
One of them was a ZIP file, and I needed to copy some stuff from the ZIP
file to an area where it would no longer be zipped. Initially it was about
1.5MB worth of stuff.
Select.
Copy.
Paste.
An unauthorised program is attempting to...
....huh?
Which program? Windows Vista itself? It seemed so. A simple file copy, admittedly
from a compressed archive, was sufficient to claim that authorisation was
required.
Allow.
Now copying 1.5 meg.
Estimated time remaining: 2 minutes 13 seconds.
Speed: 8.2KB/sec
1.5Meg will take over two minutes? We're getting 8.2KB on a 480,000KB bus?
Even USB 1 is 10,000KB. Nice.
And it didn't disappoint. It really did use the whole 2 minutes.
A later file copy of just over 4 meg achieved a speed of about 70KB/sec,
nearly 10 times faster, and only about 7,000 times slower than expected (literally).
It is, it seems, appropriate, for your own security, that you are inflicted
with constant, annoying, inconvenient checks and tests. It's for your safety.
Sorry sir. Do you have a bomb? You'll have to take your clothes off while
I put on this glove...
....it's for your own safety...
....because all of us...
....would prefer...
....a glove an hour...
....to a bomb that rarely occurs...
Welcome to Windows Fista. The future is more paranoid than ever. The bad
guys will never get us. They can't annoy us. No they can't.
Cheers,
Kim.
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