Dan Leveille: Web Developer, Designer, Photographer

Friday, December 28th, 2007

That’s it. I’m sick of Windows Vista. I’ve decided that I’m going to upgrade to Windows XP.

The warnings “WARNING: Are you sure you want to change your resolution?” were annoying at first, but now I don’t get them anymore. Vista was fine. It looked better than XP, had a nice search, and felt nicer, until I ran into some problems:

• My microphone doesn’t work
• Applications constantly stop responding. After waiting a minute or two, they become responsive. SOMETIMES. Other times, they’ll crash. It’s great when you’re typing a long message and haven’t saved/sent it.
• Videos don’t work - I’ve had to download so many different codecs and stuff, and some still don’t work. Some don’t have audio.
• Control Panel dialog boxes sometimes take minutes to response. If I open “Connect to a Network Connection” or other dialog boxes, It will show a blank screen. 3 minutes later, it appears.
• Sometimes the task bar doesn’t work and when I click on an item, it doesn’t maximize or minimize.
• It won’t let me install Adobe Camera RAW

Those are just a fraction of the problems I run into. I’m sick and tired of it. So I’m going to finish backing up my files and then I’m going to uninstall Vista.

Conclusion: Vista sucks.

UPDATE: After posting this blog entry, only seconds before I was about to close Firefox for the last time on vista, I got a “Firefox is not responding” error and it crashed Firefox. Yeah, it’s time.

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In other news, Verizon decided that I didn’t need cell phone service. So I do not have cell phone service in my home town (or neighboring towns.)

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