Right, as me and Aaron now have Windows Vista (well Aarons is still arriving), I'm recreating instead of extending the Windows Hate thread to errors found in just Vista. I have 32-bit, he has 64-bit, we can see if the errors are the same.

My first contribution.

Ever wondered exactly what you need admin powers for and to give UAC permissions for. Well I never guessed turning on Automatic Updates is on the cards:

That's right, you need admin rights to turn on what Windows says is vital. WTF!!!

Expect a lot more as we find more problems.

WTF? You need to be an Admin to update Windows using an automatic tool? That's silly!

Reason I hate Vista - it costs money. I want DirectX 10.

lol, just you wait until I screenshot Task Manager, then this'll turn into a hate thread.

LOL, I broke the XP task manager! Doesn't give the process user name anymore except for System Idle Process.

I'm pretty certain that I could find lots and lots of errors with my Vista installation when I receive it.

I know for a fact that 64-bit is horribly unsupported. I'm gonna have some real fun with this.

Edit: I managed to get someone on the end of the phone after calling CityLink. They told me that the delivery had not been automatically rescheduled for today because the driver simpy didn't know how to get to my house, which is fair enough because at the moment I live in the middle of nowhere (postcode is HR8 1SD)... The automated message before I managed to get through to somebody said "Don't worry if you've missed a delivery, you won't have to reschedule for the next day! We've already done that for you!" ... Lies!

Heh, yeah, you will have fun with that...

Hmm, TBH I'm kinda leaning towards upgrading... just I don't really want to... Hmm, If I could get a cheap HDD I might run it on a new HDD and slowly migrate across.

Vista is not an upgrade.

Not an upgrade? How you mean that?

I think that goes back to the skinned XP theory? Elaboration or confirmation or something Aaron.

Anyway next problem with Vista.

The device manager, nice new icons. Oh wait, whats this? A Windows flipping 95 icon for my battery. How the hell could they forget to update that one? What, did they spend so much time developing it for desktops that they forgot that there are batteries in device manager? The annoying little sons of developers. (I'll stop now before I get moderated). Anyway, screeny for this (look at the battery):

Heh, that just shows inconsistency, not something you want in an OS.

I think consistency is important in an OS, though. Have you noticed these days how pretty much all Microsoft software is very inconsistent? Apple on the other hand are trying to unify the interfaces on Mac OS X 10.5.

As for Vista not being an upgrade: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bad-BadVista-42561.shtml

It arrived.

All I can say is, ouch:



That's with Windows Live Messenger and a Firefox download running. No sidebar. All standard services are running.

WTF is it doing with all that memory?

It gets worse... here is me during a less-than-typical Windows session:



I'm installing Open Office, running WLM, Steam, GTalk and a FF download is running.

WTF? Uber system hog! I wonder if 32bit is any better, Si?

Oh I'm waiting till my weekend install until I give system monitor results.

In the mean time: ?Say what



If you're wonding, ?Would you like to quit Skype

I think this is a Vista bug more than a Skype bug, so it's here.

!Heh, that's just retarded

iTunes doesn't work on Vista 64. The GUI screws itself, then it won't open at all, even after killing the process and trying again.

Didn't you know? that's a "feature" - Microsoft programs only!

Ooh thats a new one, I don't have that problem in 32-bit, iTunes works fine. Aaah I think I know why you have that problem. iTunes containing 32bit iPod drivers that are a key component of the app perhaps?

Random error. Can anyone tell me what they think of Garry's Mod's apparent exit method according to Vista?



Oh wait, it's like that for all my Source based games.

Erm, that's just silly. Then again I get random errors when closing GMod 9.

I don't seem to get that error when closing either HL2, CS Source or Garrys Mod 10.

Lucky sod, it's lowering my reliability rating, it's less than five.

Anyway, what did the performance tester thing give you? I'm a 3.1

Hmm, Aaron's PC should pwn, but it'll probably gay up the ratings...

I'm a 4.2