That sounds more like the main net conns control panel window? What I miss is the ability to get into a specific connection's properties quickly from the systray. Here, I can right-click, select 'status' and click 'properties', wasn't as simple as that IIRC when I needed to do it at work (just needed to change an IP address). I'll try what you suggest though
What I'd really want to hear is Apple ending OS X Leotard sales starting... 6 months ago?
Yes, my work day consisted mostly of various Adobe CS3 products crashing about once in an hour, constant wireless network dropouts,
second display forced to mirror the MBP one (lower resolution...) and mismatched display color profiles.
It's a clean Leotard install, fully upgraded CS3, no hardware malfunctions that diagnostic software could pick up so Apple refuses to replace it. That's what I call proper customer service after shelling 2000 euros for a POS in an aluminum shell.
Victor,
Well first off, its alot more work-friendly if you know what I meen. You can get to stuff easier, etc
Most of the newer games will only run on Vista too. All together, its alot more powerful.. Though it isnt very stable (This will be fixed in SP 2)
well jack thanks for doing a bit of my reserch for me , the 8600gts has drivers, but are they decent, im stil trying to decide that when i do go to vista weather to go to 32 or 64 bit
one other thing people are saying we are being forced to go to vista but thats only true if you are buying a new pc, if you are building one yourself you can get around it buy using you old key and disk if you bought it or for those of us who already have xp pc's cos them stopping selling it dont mean we cant still use it
Slow down whilst typing - otherwise we can't understand you. Asperger's Syndrome or not (Tim Burton manages okay), there is no reason to try and type faster than you can manage.
Finding drivers is easy when you return to XP. Just go to the website of the people who made it.
soz tristan, atm drivers are no problem but i fear they may become a problem when xp is utterly fased out as there would be no reason to have the drivers working on xp from there point of view
edit: even i cant understand that last post of mine lol
XP drivers will become a problem to find in about 8 years. They might not be updated any more, but they will be EASILY available - just as drivers for 98 are still (notwithstanding the same architecture of XP).
ok ive never really got track of 98 drivers for obvious reasons but the reason i said it was a couple of weeks ago i did revert a pc back to xp from vista for someone and i had a hell of a trouble finding the drivers
I mean, no problem in the next 5 years (even more I think), companies will be releasing WinXP specific drivers (I bet most of the Vista drivers also works on XP :shrug. But if you plan to stuck with XP and no taking any newer SO, if you buy new hardware then probably you will have no drivers...
I have had Vista at work for two weeks, then I moved to Kubuntu after being pissed of crashes and low performance (Web development, software designing and some Java coding mostly).
Then I have had Vista at home (new PC) and get some problems too so I moved back to XP and I will stay with it for now . Anyway, most of the time at home I use Ubuntu, so no real problem for me
I also think Vista is the new ME ... let's see if Windows 7 is the new XP
Halo 2 is Vista only, purely as a selling strategy for Vista, there's no technical reason why it needs DX10/Vista and AFAIK it can be run on XP with some tweaking. I've never heard of any non-Microsoft sponsored games that are requiring Vista though.
I think TBH driver/software support will last for XP until well after people are no longer interested in running it.
As for the whole Vista is more powerful/work friendly I'd love to know why you think that. XP is far more efficient, although modern hardware is making that less noticeable on anything but the lowest spec machine, and IMO none of the badly copied features (which I've used routinely for years on my Mac) are actually helpful.
Really having an unsupported OS isn't an issue, in our household we've got a Windows 2000 machine and had a Windows 98 in daily use running its original OS until it refused to start up about a year ago, we never had an issue finding drivers or program support for a nearly ten year old PC.
You don't need to go through 50 things to get to a bloody program.
It's more.. 'Fluid' I guess.
I meen next Gen games. Not the newer games, I meen the ones coming out in the near future. Crysis was going to be Vista-only, before they got a bunch of people saying 'XP 4 LYFE'
And you don't need to hack stuff to get stuff working
Not stable? By that I meen it will crash sometimes. More than XP did. That's because Vista still has bugs as it's still under development.
Next Gen Games? Crysis was meant to be DX10, and so Vista only, however in the final game you can make it look identical to "DX10" with a few config hacks in DX9 - which imo implies it's DX10 but not using any new features (which is a little bit pointless) - DX10 is meant to be faster, but no-one seems to be able to actually make DX10 faster than DX9.
I must say Vista is very stable - the main issue is dodgy drivers - if you're hardware has dodgy drivers the OS will crash a LOT, making a relatively small nuber of very vocal "VISTA IS TEH SUCK!" people.
... let's see if Windows 7 is the new XP
