Article: Vista's Flaws Surface Again on Eve of Windows 7 Beta

[average joe]

A Quick Rant:

These people who complain about UAC are the same folks who were running Zone Alarm, McAfee, spysweeper, and 7 IE toolbars in Windows XP. Plus they'd have weather bug and 1/2 a dozen picture viewer-photo editing-greeting card maker packages in there task bar.

For 6 years (2002 -2008) zone alarm, McAfee, and spybot's tea timer would vomit pop ups on their screen every ten seconds every time they came across a website with some flash code in it.

Yet they managed to somehow deal with it and earn a living. Now they can't somehow grasp the concept of UAC.


Many of the programs mentioned above are fine programs. It's just unfortunate that there is a lot of apathy when it comes to computer maintenence and an unwillingness to accept any level of responciblity for thier own security.

I don't like my firewall.... its too much trouble.

 

[amdfangirl]

As I have said before "Anti-viruses are the real viruses, just ake sensible measures to ensure online safety".

 

[nukemaster]

As I have said before "Anti-viruses are the real viruses, just ake sensible measures to ensure online safety".

Agreed

Do you honestly think that those thousands of smileys will help you. FREE PORN, Download this "Software" 😛

 

[amdfangirl]

Aww... Firefox + Adblock Plus = safe

 

[average joe]

I'm using opera these days. Although Internet Explorer has its place. I might allow third party browser offce if I could configure them with group policy. Until that happens all third party browsers are forbidden.

 

[randomizer]

FireFox + NoScript = Safe. Too bad NoScript blocks everything, requiring alot of "maintenance" to actually use the internet and unblock stuff.

 

[CircusMusic]

badge, I totally agree.

I've been using Vista for almost 2 years and when I use an XP system it just feels old. I admit that me and Vista got off to a rocky start but it's solid and stable and I don't have a problem with it. People that complain about it are just those that are resistant to change or they may have heard it was bad or used it once and it didn't have the familiarity of their XP system so they didn't like it.

MS does need to do a better job of ironing out the wrinkles before release rather than waiting for a SP to fix their issues.

BTW: If you can't figure out how to turn UAC off, you need it.

The last line sums up UAC very nicely.
I started using Vista right away too. I'll admit, as well, that it was a rocky start but it's grown into a solid OS.
SP1 came out and I think I can count on one hand the number of issues I ran into since then... most of those being mistakes on my part

 

[pat]

http://www.virtualbox.org/

With that, you can try Vista or even Windows7 in all flavor without having to mess with your hdd. I'm running a virtual Windows7 64 bits on my XP machine.

 

[amdfangirl]

VirtualBox, c'est super!

 

[nukemaster]

Thanks for bumping this. I was going to come back to get that(Virtualbox), but forgot.

Does it have 3d acceleration support?

Downloading

 

[randomizer]

If you want 3D acceleration, VMWare Workstation is best. I've used it in Linux to play a first-gen DX9.0 game. Don't try anything recent though. Interestingly, FEAR's ingame benchmark runs quite well on max graphics at 1680x1050 with a few regular pauses. Run the actual game and on low at 800x600 it's still 3FPS maybe. Very strange indeed.

 

[nukemaster]

VMware has yet to get a signed driver(or have they?) for vista64 and I do not feel like having to press F8 every start when I want it. Do you know of a lazy way to get drivers working. I may just use F8 to try it out and see how it is compared to this.

Well, this does have some acceleration. Go Quake II with pausing, but i think thats the emu sound card.

The seamless mode is cool too.

 

[randomizer]

I have not run Workstation on Vista, but I use VMWare server on x64 fine.

 

[nukemaster]

Yeah, its a lack of signed driver issue after Vista SP1 on the 64 bit versions. I will have to get un lazy and make it work.

 

[randomizer]

So it's a problem with Workstation eh? Shame, because Server runs fine on SP1 but Workstation is superior (albeit costly).

 

[nukemaster]

I think its just a driver signing thing. Oddly enough VM player works fine...

 

[amdfangirl]

VirtualBox has OpenGL accleration, nothing more.

 

[nukemaster]

So that's why Quake II plays yet other stuff fails....ohh well, its a start.

Shame its allot worse then VMware for win98 and older.

 

[amdfangirl]

Yes, it doesn't support anything really older than Win 2000 properly