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So, my work machine finally got "upgraded" to Vista while I was off in Canada (the process has been going on for months, I'm one of the last holdouts).
In addition to all the reset-all-the-settings stuff I wasted time on yesterday (including lowering the screen resolution because I couldn't find any other option for "make the system font bigger than microscopic") and a few problems unique to our IT guys (i.e. I forgot to triple-check that nothing important was on my C: drive, since they never back that up before wiping your machine for an upgrade...and it turns out that my Firefox bookmarks lived there despite having thought I'd moved them to the O: drive).
Today I ran into two other annoyances, although to be fair, the bigger one isn't Vista's fault.
The big one is that I can't install software anymore. Too many people have blithely stuffed their machines with malware around campus, so anyone moving to Vista loses admin access to their own machine. So I had to get special permission to upgrade my Flash plugins (since the old plug-in was apparently either also on C: or it wasn't Vista-compatible).
The little one is a matter of "changing how things are done for no good reason" in Vista. In XP, it remembers what you last did for "Shut Down". So if you only ever want to log out, you don't need to do anything special, just click Shut Down and hit enter, it remembers you did Log Out last time. Vista, at least in my experience today, doesn't remember this. It returns to Shut Down as the default, so I need to change my habits to avoid shutting down every time I want to just log out. :/
In addition to all the reset-all-the-settings stuff I wasted time on yesterday (including lowering the screen resolution because I couldn't find any other option for "make the system font bigger than microscopic") and a few problems unique to our IT guys (i.e. I forgot to triple-check that nothing important was on my C: drive, since they never back that up before wiping your machine for an upgrade...and it turns out that my Firefox bookmarks lived there despite having thought I'd moved them to the O: drive).
Today I ran into two other annoyances, although to be fair, the bigger one isn't Vista's fault.
The big one is that I can't install software anymore. Too many people have blithely stuffed their machines with malware around campus, so anyone moving to Vista loses admin access to their own machine. So I had to get special permission to upgrade my Flash plugins (since the old plug-in was apparently either also on C: or it wasn't Vista-compatible).
The little one is a matter of "changing how things are done for no good reason" in Vista. In XP, it remembers what you last did for "Shut Down". So if you only ever want to log out, you don't need to do anything special, just click Shut Down and hit enter, it remembers you did Log Out last time. Vista, at least in my experience today, doesn't remember this. It returns to Shut Down as the default, so I need to change my habits to avoid shutting down every time I want to just log out. :/
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