Yeah! i did it finally. For these many days i was avoiding vista as i had already heard a lot about it, like vista is really resource friendly(as never leaves the resources alone) and its extreme security (yup the same annoying UAC).
But like many others i have also finally installed vista on my good old PC and currently its crawling well(used to RUN with xp).At first i got really frustrated as none my drivers were working and ASUS doesnt provide vista compatible drivers for my motherboard. I had to run each and every driver in compatibility mode with XP.
Then there is that media player 11. Thats the worst ever upgrade i have ever seen coz media player 10 used to play almost all files without needing codecs except for a few and this 11 thing doesnt play few clips even WITH codecs.
On the positive side the looks are extremely appealing and it has got inbuilt network identification technique unlike XP which needs network drivers.(saves atleast 5 minutes of installation.) I dont know if its just an illusion but vista performs few operations really faster than XP like copying , the moment vista stops calculating "Time remaining" the copying ends.(see its THAT fast)
And now if you have vista then please turn off that UAC thing.
If you dont know how then
Goto control panel
user accounts
turn off UAC. Restart.
It is also possible to restore XP start menu so do that right away and yes when you right click on your desktop "refresh" is fourth(may be third) option not second.
PS: Keep checking this blog coz with each passing day i'll post more VISTA tips and tricks.
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