Comments on: Windows Impressions

By: MixWizard

MixWizard — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:52:24 +0000

To be honest its easier to do majority of things in a command prompt now that theyve moved things about and hidden certain things. Like adding network drives Jal

By: MixWizard

MixWizard — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:52:24 +0000

To be honest its easier to do majority of things in a command prompt now that theyve moved things about and hidden certain things. Like adding network drives Jal

By: Jalada

Jalada — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:49 +0000

Diagnose & Repair is not a simple repair though, it involves 'Identifying the problem', which takes a lot longer than a simple repair did in XP, also also unhelpfully says 'Windows did not find any problems with your Internet connection'. Does that mean it has done the repair anyway? Or that it didn't bother?

And fair enough about the interface guidelines, I'll rectify the post, I'll admit I didn't research into that fully, I was taking x5315's word on it.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:06:45 +0000

‘Repair’-ing a network connection appears to have disappeared from existence — It's still there, it's just called “Diagnose & Repair”.

“because in Mac OSX they are always a certain way round, whereas in Windows they can be in different places.” – the Windows Human Interface Guidelines specifically say they should be a specific way round (I just think that it's opposite to the way round Apple have them).

By: MixWizard

MixWizard — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:17:44 +0000

As company policy im not meant to tell someone to disable something that may reduce certain security measures on theyre system, so it is a slight pain. Yeah it tells you under system whether the system is 32/64bit which is nice, whereas XP doesnt

By: Jalada

Jalada — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:34:51 +0000

You can go into the Net/Sharing Centre and then click 'manage network connections' and you can disable + enable there, but there's no renew which is annoying.

UAC is definitely a pain if you're having to do a lot of system work. I can imagine it frustrates you more because the times you use Vista are when you are trying to fix things, so it's going to be popping up all the time! I would suggest temporarily disabling it in these circumstances. I think UAC needs to take a few ideas from Linux - let you interactively choose to run as 'root' for a time, and let you use something like 'sudo' from the command line.

I never thought of using the x86 program files folder as a way of determining if someone is running 64-bit! The Welcome Centre also tells you I believe.

By: MixWizard

MixWizard — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:53:40 +0000

The network sharing center is just crap, and the only way to disable / renew adaptors easily now is via the cmd.

As for the admin issues, it annoys me that although your the only user and set to admin it still tries to restrict your access to certain bits and pieces. A key example is, with UAC on try edit a system file in the windows directory (mainly .ini and .sys)

'What is the point in having a ‘Program Files (x86)’ folder if that just means ‘anything not installed with Vista’? I installed iTunes 64-bit version and clearly there’s no way to detect that, because it still installed into ‘Program Files (x86)’, it’s just an unnecessary split.'

Dont worry ive thought the same, although its a quick way for me to distinguish over the phone whether a system a user has is 64bit.