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corona_coder, do you know of any actions by your band of merry men in Europe? I for one would love to see people picketing computer stores. I'd like to take pictures, too.

Heywood_J wrote:


There's nothing wrong with wanting to use Vista "like XP".   If something worked well in XP, then it should continue to work well in Vista. 

 
Then I should have hundreds of valid complaints against OSX. It works well in XP, why should I not be able to use it like XP?

Anyway, you have a point, but if something worked well in XP, yet it works better when changed in Vista, then the change is justified.

D'oh, you're right, I totally missed the pin-icon on that other thread.

Strange.

I thought there was supposed to be a link to a Vista version of AVG in the Welcome center?

2.5 years for my current job. Starting a new one in march.

The Imagine Cup thread is at the top for me, now.

I wonder what they're gonna do with this thread. I'd be pretty worried if I had to turn this thread into a 'bit of fun.'

I agree with number 5, the explorer locking up when the network is unresponsive is a huge pain that I had hoped would be fixed in Vista. I'm not to keen on advanced features like pause and resume, but getting notified of files that couldn't be copied at the end while the rest of the file copies continue would be nice. Perhaps let users know at the end of the copy operation which files made it and which files couldn't be copied, and then give them the option to ignore those files, or revert the entire copy operation, for instance.
And please let's get rid of the time calculation, or do it on the fly. It feels so... useless.

I realise that we have robocopy, but this is Windows, we shouldn't -have- to use the command line for advanced features.

The rest are nonsensical. As said above, he's trying to use Vista as XP. I bet most of his 'sins' will dissapear magically when he has used it for a couple of months.

Edit:

Lucky for him then that this exact problem was addressed in Vista!  Now, when you copy a large number of files/folders - Vista will prompt you for any permissions, overwrite requests, etc - at the start of the operation, for everything in the copy list.  It will also copy as much as it can and save any errors for the end of the operation, so that you don’t walk away and come back later to find that one little error has stopped your entire copy operation.

I... stand corrected. I would've sworn that it is still as in XP. Perfect!


It also has replaced the “Yes / Yes To All / No” style options, with more descriptive options and a “Do this for all” checkbox - thus ending cries of “Where is No To All!?!?!” (which secretly could be achieved in older version of Windows by holding down the SHIFT key while pressing No).

....why am I told of this only now, 7 days before Vista gets released?

It always amazes me how poorly done a lot of phishing or worm-emails are. I've seen plenty of emails from 'banks' or 'Microsoft' which had the layout nailed perfectly, but contained the most obvious spelling errors or out-of-place language that immediately gave away that it was fake. I'm glad a lot of haxx0rz are so stupid.

This headlines thing gives me an idea, though. It should be possible to use an RSS feed from a major news website and just use their headlines and content for your email. Blam, instant worm spreading on every major event.

On a positive note, we get a whole year full of updates and cured children's diseases when it comes out here.

Too bad it'll probably cost $150 more than in the US.

Rowan wrote:

However, when I checked Australian news sources, they're saying Home Premium will cost a whopping AU$455! That's US$100 more than the recommended price.

Join the overinflation club. We're paying a cool US$300 more than the US recommended price for Vista Ultimate.