SKINK - Vista BUGS

[slipknotpsycho]

ok well, i figured you might be curious as to what major bugs there are (no i'm not really asking for help to take care of 'em lol... i pretty much know these bugs are only gonna be fixed by patches and updates)

1. sometimes windows won't open like they should... like with tabs on IE7, you open a new tab but it won't load the page, won't do nothing, it just opens up a completely blank page (no bar at the bottom or info or anything) i'll take a screen shot next time to show you what i mean) when that happens, you also can't right click anything (menu won't come up) can't restart your computer through the task bar (task bar will be completely blank) you have to crtl alt and del and it takes you to a menu (doesn't just bring up task manager) and you have ot restart from that screen to get rid of it.

2. sometimes while posting, pages will just start opening, about one page a second, and does not stop, if you close one with the x, it'll open up 3 more lol... so you gotta restart for that too...

those are very common btw... after a couple of hours you'r garunteed to get one or the other...

there's a couple other small ones i can't bring up to my mind atm...

then there's the compatibility issues... nearly EVERYTHING has an issue with this, all games especially, you can by pass it pretty easily, but you can no longer just double click the shortcut on the desktop for the game and have it run right... for instance, with BF2 i have to right click and choose "run as administrator" or i'll get an error as soon as i join a match called "insufficient O/S privleges", i also had to download soem type of program first and run it to get the game configured to be compatible...

a couple other games i've had to go to properties on the shortcut, and the compatibility tab and selet "windows xp"... but basicly, everything takes some ammount of tweaking to get to work (other then direct microsoft products such as word, or windows media player)

also, alot of non-microsoft products you have to actually right click and select "run as administrator" or it won't work right... nothing any longer opens up with double clicking as owner or administrator.. anything double clicked opens up as a restricted users privleges... now there is a way to open it as administrator by double clicking, but that DOES NOT work like it should.. (btw you have to set every shortcut as that individually, it's through the properties, there's not some general setting you can set) i put the shortcut to BF2 as always open as administrator, then double clicked the tab after a restart and verifying it was still set as that, and still got the same message....

so there you go, my experience so far with vista... you had mentioned you knew basicly nothing about vista as of yet, so i figured you might wanna know...

slipknotpsycho Reviewed by slipknotpsycho on 03-09-2007. SKINK - Vista BUGS ok well, i figured you might be curious as to what major bugs there are (no i'm not really asking for help to take care of 'em lol... i pretty much know these bugs are only gonna be fixed by patches and updates) 1. sometimes windows won't open like they should... like with tabs on IE7, you open a new tab but it won't load the page, won't do nothing, it just opens up a completely blank page (no bar at the bottom or info or anything) i'll take a screen shot next time to show you what i mean) Rating: 5

[slipknotpsycho]

oh yeah that's another thing (just happened to me..) for soem reason, every once in awhile the internet will disconnect it's self... you try to open a page and you get offline message you get wehn you click "work offline" in xp and try to open a page not in your history... not really that bothersome since all you gotta do is click 'connect'...

also, it takes a bit of work to get a xp computer and a vista computer on the same network... vista is using some new protocol for networking that xp doesn't reconize, if you ever have problems getting them on the same network let me know i can solve it realitively fast since i had to do it...

[slipknotpsycho]

ok i can't do that either... apparently when the not beign able to open more tabs kicks in, you can't open paint or it says "failed to create empty document"

[Skink]

Thanks Slip.... sounds like it's going to be a while before I delve... some of that stuff sounds like memory errors,,,keep an eye on the task manager and see if something is leaking memory... IE7 is not the greatest either I back all my machines out of it and using 6 again...

if MS is going to try and control Piracy at least make it work before you sell it :hippy: :hippy: :hippy: Administrator privilege,,,I am the F$#%in Administrator!!!LOLz...

Thanks I am interested in what is happening,,,I got a friend that is going to be needing a puter and she is gonna get a Dell,,,I told her I will wipe it and put her xp on it but,,,she is afraid and wants to keep Vista...

[slipknotpsycho]

trust me she doesn't wanna keep vista lol... figure out how to dual boot it... it can get really annoying... and someone who doesn't know what's going on exactly is gonna be like "omg!! help! my computer is broken" lol... usually all is ok with a restart, but even that can be complicated... (remember, durring one of the major errors you can't see anything on the start menu)

and i don't have a clue what you mean by leaking memory, i'm not that computer literate... i have a decent understanding but i'm far from a pro lol.. my knowledge goes about as far as basic knowledge and internet access... i can diagnose and solve lots of problems so long as i know how to get around on the O/S and i have internet...

it's filled with bugs... but quite honestly, it's alot more stable then windows ME ever was.... the stability is less than XP SP2, but far better then ME lol...

[Skink]

Task Manager> Processes>third column is CPU usage 4th column is memory usage... look at them when thing are going good then when shit goes pear look and see if something is excessively high...

[slipknotpsycho]

oh... no that doesn't happpen... they all pretty much stay the same from start up to those failures... nothing really changes...

skink you mind deleting that idiotic post for me? ^^^ i really don't feel like dealing with that type of crap right now

[KL4D4]

man I used ME for soo long and didn't think it was half bad til many years later after using XP and I realized... still I think ME was about as good as Windows 2k

[Skink]

ME was the start of XP so lets hope Vista is the predecessor of something good...

[slipknotpsycho]

ME was the start of XP so lets hope Vista is the predecessor of something good...

yeah lets hope cuz XP was like a gigantic step over ME... if they can do that same thing again, with vista... they might have the most stable, easy to use, decoratvie/visual apeasing, operating system ever made... i hold alot of doubt... lets just hope lol..