Warning: this is a rant, in case the title were't obvious enough.
Anyway, I'm completely fed up with Vista's crap. Since a month after I got it, I've been fighting with UAC and Data Execution Prevention, which are supposedly helping protect my computer but in reality are doing very little of that and a whole lot of forcing me to run every little program as an administrator unless I want it to crash and burn, and still half the time preventing programs from working. Ever since a few weeks after I got the infernal machine, the Search feature has failed to notice three-quarters of my files. I can look at a thumbnail in My Pictures, and then search for it with negative results. I haven't installed a program in the last month without it failing utterly thanks to Vista's crap (data execution prevention, UAC, etc. etc.). Many of the programs I've had for years are getting killed as well. Last time Vista forced me to update it, Homeworld2, uTorrent, and the freaking 'open file location' option in dropdown menus stopped working. Any day now, Orbiter will cease to be playable with this craptacular OS. I feel like I'm abusing an animal every time Vista starts up on this poor computer.
Shoot me now... :suicide:
...Or maybe just find me a copy of Windows XP.
It's about time I finally 'down'-graded.
:facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:
Anyway, I'm completely fed up with Vista's crap. Since a month after I got it, I've been fighting with UAC and Data Execution Prevention, which are supposedly helping protect my computer but in reality are doing very little of that and a whole lot of forcing me to run every little program as an administrator unless I want it to crash and burn, and still half the time preventing programs from working. Ever since a few weeks after I got the infernal machine, the Search feature has failed to notice three-quarters of my files. I can look at a thumbnail in My Pictures, and then search for it with negative results. I haven't installed a program in the last month without it failing utterly thanks to Vista's crap (data execution prevention, UAC, etc. etc.). Many of the programs I've had for years are getting killed as well. Last time Vista forced me to update it, Homeworld2, uTorrent, and the freaking 'open file location' option in dropdown menus stopped working. Any day now, Orbiter will cease to be playable with this craptacular OS. I feel like I'm abusing an animal every time Vista starts up on this poor computer.
Shoot me now... :suicide:
...Or maybe just find me a copy of Windows XP.
It's about time I finally 'down'-graded.
:facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm: