This recent Christmas, I bought my girlfriend an HP laptop at a steal ($600USD for DualCore @ 3Ghz, 3GB RAM, webcam, 5-in-one reader, DVDRW/CDRW, etc etc). It has Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 installed.
Now, let me first say that I am coming around a bit to Vista. Instead of a sheething hatred of it, I now just have a smoldering mistrust, doubt, and moderate anger. Occaisional hatred but not constant, seething like before. I really do like the new UI and the near-instant Search function is flipping awesome. The new GUI isn't necessary but some of it's additions are pretty cool.
Constant HDD activity pisses me off, as does UAC and others but that's another story.
This thread is specifically about an experience from about a week ago. I inserted a CD with some old data of mine -- mp3s, pictures, documents, etc. I also had many mod music files on this drive (.xm for example). Well, I inserted the disc and Explorer halted to analyze it's contents or whatever. Lame, but whatever. Moving on. So I pull up the root directory, and open the "Phatty Beats" folder I had created back when I burnt this CD -- many electronica song files of the aforementioned format(s). I was going to add them to Foobar2k, but lo! The window and Explorer itself hung again. This time, it never came back. The CD thrashed for a while, then went silent. Explorer crashed and never came back. Really lame. From the looks of things it might have been trying to make Thumbnails of these music files which is even more ridiculous. So I try to quell my anger, and End Task explorer.exe -- closing and trying to End Task it the normal, "Windows Vista" way didn't prove useful at all. It kept asking to troubleshoot the issue but wouldn't even allow me to continue in that process. lol.
Unfortunately, unlike XP, I could not re-start the explorer.exe process. Well, I technically could, but I didn't get functionality back like I should have. Did I mention that the CD was now completely innaccesible? I had to restart the system. I shouldn't have to mention that this would never happen in XP.
Bleh.
EDIT: Oh! I also forgot to mention my hilarious USB Flash Drive experience. I had a flash drive (4GB) formatted in my Windows XP Professional XP3 system, to NTFS @ 512bytes per cluster, Compressed. After doing that, roughly 40mb on the drive were used. MFT and all that. When I inserted the drive into her Windows Vista laptop, not only did it take about 10 minutes to even become usable (I think I had to restart for this as well IIRC), but now there was about 200mb of additinal drive usage. No files or anything, just misteriously missing storage space. On a Compressed drive with 512bytes per cluster no less! dumb.
Now, let me first say that I am coming around a bit to Vista. Instead of a sheething hatred of it, I now just have a smoldering mistrust, doubt, and moderate anger. Occaisional hatred but not constant, seething like before. I really do like the new UI and the near-instant Search function is flipping awesome. The new GUI isn't necessary but some of it's additions are pretty cool.
Constant HDD activity pisses me off, as does UAC and others but that's another story.
This thread is specifically about an experience from about a week ago. I inserted a CD with some old data of mine -- mp3s, pictures, documents, etc. I also had many mod music files on this drive (.xm for example). Well, I inserted the disc and Explorer halted to analyze it's contents or whatever. Lame, but whatever. Moving on. So I pull up the root directory, and open the "Phatty Beats" folder I had created back when I burnt this CD -- many electronica song files of the aforementioned format(s). I was going to add them to Foobar2k, but lo! The window and Explorer itself hung again. This time, it never came back. The CD thrashed for a while, then went silent. Explorer crashed and never came back. Really lame. From the looks of things it might have been trying to make Thumbnails of these music files which is even more ridiculous. So I try to quell my anger, and End Task explorer.exe -- closing and trying to End Task it the normal, "Windows Vista" way didn't prove useful at all. It kept asking to troubleshoot the issue but wouldn't even allow me to continue in that process. lol.
Unfortunately, unlike XP, I could not re-start the explorer.exe process. Well, I technically could, but I didn't get functionality back like I should have. Did I mention that the CD was now completely innaccesible? I had to restart the system. I shouldn't have to mention that this would never happen in XP.
Bleh.
EDIT: Oh! I also forgot to mention my hilarious USB Flash Drive experience. I had a flash drive (4GB) formatted in my Windows XP Professional XP3 system, to NTFS @ 512bytes per cluster, Compressed. After doing that, roughly 40mb on the drive were used. MFT and all that. When I inserted the drive into her Windows Vista laptop, not only did it take about 10 minutes to even become usable (I think I had to restart for this as well IIRC), but now there was about 200mb of additinal drive usage. No files or anything, just misteriously missing storage space. On a Compressed drive with 512bytes per cluster no less! dumb.