(rant) Ending 8 months of nuisance - ditching Vista at last

Having put up with Vista ultimate for 8 months now, I've decided to
format the hard disk of my notebook and install XP professional
again.

The reason for my decision is not Vista's dreaded UAC, which I find a
good thing actually, but rather the fact that I am much less productive
using Vista than using XP. I spend much too much time doing stuff
like searching for things that are no longer where they used to be
under XP. That's just a never-ending nuisance.

Under XP, I can instruct someone to click his way to the IP settings of his
network adapter with my eyes closed. Under Vista, I'm lucky if I can
get it done myself .
Stuff like network connections, WLAN connections, the "common"'
and "user" desktop folder etcetera are just no longer where I expect
them to be and are buried much too deep.

It just makes no sense to find my "personal" start menu under
"C:\Users\Arthur\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu"
and the "common" start menu under
"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu", the guy who
thought that out must have been smoking something illegal.

Anyway, I'm really looking foreward to be with my old friend XP
again.





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Arthur Hoornweg

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