| Annoyance and Windows VistaWarning: I'm going to geek out for a few moments. At long last, I now have a laptop, and while I love finally having one, the last month has also given me a few headaches with Windows Vista. My top irritations:1. Windows Update. Don't you hate it when your computer has a mind of its own? I've customized Windows Update so that, in theory, it will only reboot the computer to "finish installing updates" when I tell it to. Unfortunately, that's not the case in reality--as I discovered after multiple attempts to download a large file, attempts that resulted in a only acquiring a small percentage of the file after Windows decided to reboot my computer (and since it's having trouble installing the updates, it ended up restarting every 10 minutes to 4 hours, depending on whether I was around to catch the pop up window in time to tell it to shut up for a few hours). After doing some searching on the problem (which popped up this amusing invoice to Bill Gates for £1,200), I ended up editing my registry, as there's apparently no other way to make the program stop randomly rebooting the computer. Thus far Windows Update looks like it's back under control. Finally.2. Not only do you need log into your account and make yourself the administrator of your computer in order to do certain tasks, like install most software and edit hidden folders, but you also need to declare yourself the owner over every file in every drive. This is a fairly automated, but time consuming process.3. Windows Explorer (you know, the piece of the OS that lets you open files and folders on your computer) crashed a lot when I first got the laptop. (Fortunately, one of the updates seems to have remedied the bug.)4. I'm running a dual-core processor on this computer, but about 50% of the time it still takes a while to open up the Control Panel.5. When you close a program that's stopped functioning, you'll get a little window that says, "Checking for a solution to the pro... |
