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- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I liked it when I buried your comments and it went wooooosh 'cause you wrote a lot of stuff.
- lithuin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+29What the f$%k is your problem? And this doesn't go just for you, but for all you other mouth-breathers that have to chime in with pointless comments like this. If you don't like Vista, just STFU and don't read the article. You're all a bunch of retards, and not the good kind that are friendly and are just trying to get by in the world, but the bad kind whose retarded-ness is by choice. I'm not a huge fan of you, but I don't chime in on every article going on about how much you suck. By the way, have you even used the release version of Vista on a decent computer? Don't answer that. It's a rhetorical question. Idiot.
- antifreeze11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12the mirror is kinda useless seeing as how all the useful links on it are not mirrored.
- nailz420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Most of those tips are Windows XP tips with XP changed to Vista and some of them are just plain wrong. Example: "In Windows XP, when you added more memory to your computer, you had to manually go and increase the size of your paging file to correctly match the amount of memory in your computer" - only if you changed the default system managed setting.
- MixMastaMetal, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18Not a bad list. Thanks.
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I'm surprised they don't mention using Reliability and Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe) to keep track of running processes. It shows processor, memory, disk and network usage per process. Much improved from XP and much more detailed than Task Manager.
- Tempest811, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The more you spout on and on about how bad Vista is, the less experienced you seem with actually using it. I have been using Vista for a while now and everything I did in XP I can continue to do in Vista unhindered and unrestricted....the hundreds of gigabytes of files I have all run perfectly fine on all the hardware I have....in fact they are more organized now and easier to access. You're being very melodramatic considering all it is is an interface in which to access files. Take deep breaths..everything is ok.
- DRGinLBC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9How about a tip to automatically play .avi, .wmv, or .mpg files directly from IE7. Right now all I get is a "Save As..." option. I miss being able to view those 10 second clips on the fly off my "favorite sites."
- Doghound, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17Damn you trolls are quick....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15"What the f$%k is your problem? And this doesn't go just for you, but for all you other mouth-breathers that have to chime in with pointless comments like this. If you don't like Vista, just STFU and don't read the article."
Bashing Vista gives people a sense of identity. It's so they can feel secure about themselves knowing that they are somehow smarter or better than the average user.
Don't worry though. The people who need to resort to this kind of snobbery in order to feel better about themselves are usually the biggest bottom-feeding losers around.
Oh and don't think I'm not aware of the irony of my comment. =P - GuyHersh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7wow, that program is pretty sweet. Thanks for letting me know!
I love it when digg comments are more useful than the actual articles. - djepik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@Intanger
http://www.jasoco.net/data/files/images/Chill%20Pill.png - Griefer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Ratteler
That's fine if you want to do that but for us gamers, we don't really have a choice in the near future. I'll be using it but now it isn't necessary. - Doghound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ratteler = Intangir??
- Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Could the person who made the script for filtering out multiple exclamation marks please come up with one for trolls and fanboys?
- CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7http://www.duggmirror.com/software/Windows_Vista_Tips_Galore/
- Hrag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2OH NOES!
Sunday Sunday Sunday!!
- SHOWDOWN -
XP vs. VISTA for the heavyweight OS title!
see it LIVE on digg.com - justnick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Can I thank you for giving me the money to buy one. Thanks. Jackass.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3because some people dont want aero as their desktop gui template even though they might be able to use it
and really, windows has never come with an actual manual. There might be people who pick these tips up off a search engine and find them useful, you know? People that dont actually use computers all the time but bought a new one for the family and it came with vista.
I have been pouring through menus, hidden commands and settings for 3 days trying to get acquainted with all the stuff in vista. I am not a windows fan, but I have to say that I do like some of the fun stuff in vista. - Matri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Oh for crying out--!!
I'll bet you all were jumping into the bandwagon and bashing Microsoft for the glaring security flaws in XP. So they listened and closed them up and you find a new bandwagon to jump on. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2All you need to get more from your Vista?
a VMWare player and a linux ISO :D - coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Also would like a tip on how to get Vista to connect to my wireless router with measly 128-bit WEP encryption. All I get is "Error connecting to network" and proceeds to say something about invalid security when I know I entered the right key. Why can't Vista's wireless configuration be as easy as it is in Linux? : /
No, this is not a Vista-bashing comment, I really want to know how to do this as I am dual-booting Vista for gaming and Linux for everything else (including a few games). - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Yes. And thank you for spamming, you ***** *****.
- trib4lmaniac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Bury.
- bbear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ok I finally figured out what the problem is. Windows Media Player has an option that says "disable screensaver during playback". This creates an issue because when you hit the X it doesn't fully close windows mediaplayer... only minimizes it. I noticed that when I clicked X during a video the player window would disappear from the desktop and taskbar, but the sounds from the video would continue in the background. I haven't figured out how to completely close Mediaplayer without killing the process in task manager. Disabling that option solved the screensaver problem.
- PuffyC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What does this have to do with Vista Tips article? And the short answer to your question is Yes, but not many.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3[quote]I'll bet you all were jumping into the bandwagon and bashing Microsoft for the glaring security flaws in XP. So they listened and closed them up and you find a new bandwagon to jump on.[/quote]
Where is this bandwagon everyone keeps talking about? Have you ever seen a bandwagon in your life? I don't believe bandwagons exist. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9"just get one"
and run 1/10th of the programs you could on a windows pc. I have nothing against mac OS.. I like it, but take your useless comments somewhere else please.
It's last call, I dont care which thread you stay in, but you can't stay here. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2[quote]Any other Windows users out there who just don't give a flip about Vista?[/quote]
Yeah, I don't like quite a few things about it. At the top of the list:
1. The DRM and signed driver requirements (yeah, not fully enabled yet, I know).
2. The MS bloatware that's installed with it.
3. The appearance of the GUI.
4. The RAM requirements.
Don't dig me down, MS trolls. I'm a Windows user! - Matri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Something tells me you're spamming your search engine, which has an appropriate name. SearchJERK.
- bairy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You do realise of course that you'll never see a payment. Google will kill your account for violating the TOS waaay before they pay you anything.
- bbear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Anyone else have a problem with the Vista screensaver never starting? My screen saver never starts and the monitor does not auto shut off. Even when I set it to 1 minute. This is the only problem I've had with Vista. Im using Home Premium on a clean install.
- Wang, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3How could this article miss wf.msc (Windows Firewall with Advanced Security)? It's a *major* improvement over XP's Firewall control panel, and it's not that obvious to Vista-newcomers that there is actually a better user interface offering more control over the firewall.
- MSWindowsVista, on 08/13/2008, -0/+0Another Great Windows Vista Resource. Great if your new to Vista and wanted to know more.
- Cameleopard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I wouldn't be using Vista for quite a while otherwise, but since I got a free copy of the Business edition I stuck it on another partition on my desktop and must say that I like it so far. I've only encountered two significant, persistent problems so far. 1. I get the COM surrogate error when I run into a divx file and, 2. the software for my Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS isn't taking over volume control, etc. as it should and my 6.1 speakers aren't properly recognized through Vista (I got it to do 5.1 correctly). Anyway, I just wanted to chime in to say that it's working pretty well out-of-the-box, as it were.
- Griefer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2To all the trolls here, I'd like to start by saying that vista is a better OS then XP... for the average user. It's cleaner and more user friendly. The only real down side as of now is performance issues with games, benchmarks, and such. To all the mac fan boys, while I agree with you that OSX is a better OS then XP, I think you should suck it up and admit that vista is a pretty good improvement over XP even without direct X 10.
- afred, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Some good tips on here, thanks. I just installed Vista on one of my PC's today, and I used a number of these tips right at the start. Thank you.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Yeah, and you can find them reading and commenting on other articles than you.
- firebhaal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It's not obligatory... especially when its not funny
- PuffyC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You post DA things like this and then wonder why everyone thinks Mac users are self-important a-holes. When will they learn...
- borisz, on 10/29/2007, -0/+0here is one more useful link for windows vista tips http://www.softwaretipspalace.com/MS_Windows_Vista ...
- MemoryDump, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2forgot the #1 tip:
DON'T GET VISTA - XP STILL WORKS FINE - Doghound, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Intangir
I'd make an argument against your many posts if it were worth it, but I feel that I'd just be waisting my time... Kind of like talking to a brick wall except, in this case, it would be talking to a head filled with hot air & steam. - imujval, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0you could have better tips at http://vista-basic.blogspot.com
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2[quote](you can use it without product key for 30 days before activating) however I don't think that's much legal.[/quote]
I don't think Microsoft's monopoly is legal. - Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4NOT.
Vista offers NO user improvement. It slows your system down, and adds layers of DRM all over the place.
It's not just media playback through HDCP, they have encrypted MANY low level systems as well.
OS X only make use of "Trusted Computing" during it's boot process to ensure that it is really running on a Mac. Once it's up and running any Apple DRM is restricted to the Application it is intended for. Namely iTunes.
Vista DRMs processes at so many levels you will NEVER get them out. It waists your computers resources to do it, and exactly HOW does this benefit YOU?
It doesn't! It benefits the big media and software companies. What more, because of the open back door that M$ put in to Vista, they can lock out software they don't think you should be able to run.
I don't want that ***** on MY computer. If Big Media and M$ want that kind of access to MY hardware, let them PAY ME for the privilege. When they buy my computer for me, they can tell me what I may and may not do with it. As long as I buy my system out of my pocket, and pay for an OS to run on it, they better be serving MY needs above all others.
VISTA is not. So it's not getting in here, and I will warn everyone on the planet of Vista's nature.
If Vista sells well enough, if we all just swallow this assault, they will just try to take more of our rights and invade deeper into our homes next time.
I am their boss. Not their stockholders. ME the customer who gives their company it's value in the first place. Since they have gotten to big of an ego to remember that, I'm switching to the alternative. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I read the title as "Windows Vista Tipper Al Gore". :/
- justnick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Patience is a virtue.
- Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Mythos. Stop being a ***** liar.
98, 2K and even XP's slowdown want do to encrypting internal application communication channels. That encryption is designed to keep applications from modifying other applications. This is M$ version of security. Of course the number of apps it breaks doesn't matter to them as long they get to lock you out of the software they don't want you using.
Readyboost is nothing that we haven't been doing already with Reg hacks that cause the temp files and page files to go to a flash drive.
Areo is visually nothing that wasn't done 5 years ago with Window Blinds. But it does let M$ lock out any 3D technology except their Direct3D. Way to limit the superior qualities of OGL.
This "Spyware" excuse was already addressed in my comment about encryption. Who here has NOT turned off XP's indexing service. Now we can't. Thanks. Why not... well, they can't spy on you if they are not allowed to constantly search your HD.
If it's up to the App to activate the DRM, why didn't M$ stay the hell out of it and let the App developer deal with DRM code. Or just keep the code in WMP and leave it out of the OS. Because it's not there for Hollywood media merchants. It's there so M$ can invoke it at any time they choose.
I doubt Apple will support BluRay at the OS level like M$ did. They'll put it in the application that plays back the disks. Where it belongs, because they are complying with DRM, not endorsing it.
"Don't like DRM? Then don't buy DRMed content"
That's a given.
"Microsoft can't do nothing against the MPAA restrictions because the PC market is considered insignificant by the majors (how many PCs are used to playback DVDs rather than standalone players? There's probably a 1:100 ratio). It's the MPAA that owns all the content and they want to decide who can and who can't play it: if there's somebody to blame for DRM it's them."
HD-DVD and BluRay are already DOA. 75% of the "High Def" screens being sold are incapable of playing back higher than 720p anyway. 60% of Americana's don't have vision good enough to really notice the difference in quality.
Microsoft has enough cash to buy the entire entertainment industry lock stock and barrel! If they didn't WANT DRM for their own purposes, they could have nullified the MPAA in a hostile takeover.
The DRM is integral to "Big Bill's" plan to sell us our software as a monthly service. A goal he stated almost 10 years ago. DRM is essential for what will become M$ version iLife provided through the net like Google apps. Why do you think M$ thinks of Google as an enemy?
Vista is nothing but M$ attempt to steal the use of your property without you knowing it. - GuyHersh, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4obligatory "I for one welcome our new Vista overlords!"
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