- Apr 22, 2007
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So far i've tried using the vista home premium OEM edition. the conclusion would be: makes me love xp all the more.
vista have some heavy security measures. too heavy in fact IMO. the whole thing is like a maximum security prison. mind u, using it for a few hours is enough to make me feel like i'm trapped in a prison i own.
why i say so? 1) there's the new 'ownership thingy' where files n folder have owners (users/groups). plus side: i cant touch stuff that arent mine so cant other users. bad side: being administrator doesnt make u own every file. 'system' does, not u. yes.. bill gates owns the piece of OS u just bought, not u who pay for it.
So to change something say, the start menu, u have to gain ownership of the folders involved. i can tell u creating a new folder in the start menu after gaining ownership takes 2 confirmations. renaming it, another 2 confirmations. copying stuffs into it, another 2. get the idea? it's very troublesome to do a simple task. FYI, vista's default start menu is basically micosoft spam. there are tonnes of things starting with the word windows/microsoft.
2) In xp, u can assign a different location for your 'my documents'. typically i assign it to D: so i can format C: without having to touch D:. In vista, my documents have been break apart into a bunch of folders. while the documents can still be relocate, others can't. so all your music file in my music ends up in C: which we all know is prone to reformatting.
3)I stumbled upon this accidently while trying to circumvent problem 2. I tried copying everything to D: will leaving a shortcut to them in the user directory. the shortcut works but not i have 2 sets of my musics,my videos, etc... no good. so i try to delete the shortcut. I can't. there is no way to delete anything from that directory. I've tried all the methods i know of. the shortcut just cant be deleted.
Now this brings a serious issue. what if a virus successfully create a copy of itself in that folder? don't tell me the virus will gain 'immortality' n cant be killed. I'm no expert but if this is possible then vista is down the drain.
then we can thank microsoft for making viruses immortal.
vista have some heavy security measures. too heavy in fact IMO. the whole thing is like a maximum security prison. mind u, using it for a few hours is enough to make me feel like i'm trapped in a prison i own.
why i say so? 1) there's the new 'ownership thingy' where files n folder have owners (users/groups). plus side: i cant touch stuff that arent mine so cant other users. bad side: being administrator doesnt make u own every file. 'system' does, not u. yes.. bill gates owns the piece of OS u just bought, not u who pay for it.
So to change something say, the start menu, u have to gain ownership of the folders involved. i can tell u creating a new folder in the start menu after gaining ownership takes 2 confirmations. renaming it, another 2 confirmations. copying stuffs into it, another 2. get the idea? it's very troublesome to do a simple task. FYI, vista's default start menu is basically micosoft spam. there are tonnes of things starting with the word windows/microsoft.
2) In xp, u can assign a different location for your 'my documents'. typically i assign it to D: so i can format C: without having to touch D:. In vista, my documents have been break apart into a bunch of folders. while the documents can still be relocate, others can't. so all your music file in my music ends up in C: which we all know is prone to reformatting.
3)I stumbled upon this accidently while trying to circumvent problem 2. I tried copying everything to D: will leaving a shortcut to them in the user directory. the shortcut works but not i have 2 sets of my musics,my videos, etc... no good. so i try to delete the shortcut. I can't. there is no way to delete anything from that directory. I've tried all the methods i know of. the shortcut just cant be deleted.
Now this brings a serious issue. what if a virus successfully create a copy of itself in that folder? don't tell me the virus will gain 'immortality' n cant be killed. I'm no expert but if this is possible then vista is down the drain.
then we can thank microsoft for making viruses immortal.
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