Hi Extra,

I'm sorry you have this problem. Here's how it is with me ...

I've been running Vista (Home Premium) for a month. I came to it
because I bought a new machine and Vista came with it. From what I'd
researched on the Net about Vista, I had some reservations and wasn't
particuarly keen on making the change from XP, because that did all I
wanted. But that was the deal - Vista came with the new machine, and
that was that.

First impressions of Vista ... very pretty and all that, nothing
electrifying, not fast.

But then, the bombshell: my various settings for Explorer windows just
didn't 'stick'.

Naturally enough, I assumed there was something wrong with my machine
or OS. After all, nobody but nobody would actually plan and then
release something like that, as a deliberate act, now would they?

But, yes, that's exactly what has happened. Once I got the search
criteria right, a check with Google told me that there were many jaws
dropping over the issue, apart from mine.

It really is utterly infuriating. You click into an Explorer window,
having set it up just the way you want it. Then, in due course you sit
there setting it up all over again, and again, and then again.

When I work on my machine, I nip into and out of various Explorer
windows all the time. I have them set up differently, depending on what
they are for. To pop one up and find that my configuration has been
revised for me and changed into one that I very much don't want, is just
plain maddening. The sheer pointlessness of someone within Microsoft
actually designing such a system just makes the frustration even
keener.

With Explorer windows ever changing, it slows the work-flow horribly
and is a totally unnecessary frustration. To find that the columns you
had set previously (because those were the columns you wanted, spaced as
you wanted them) have been merrily revised for you to provide
information you don't want along with, say, 'Details' view changed to
'Icons', and so on, is at first unbelievable, then irritating, finally
maddening. And it's all done for you, without so much as a
by-your-leave.

It's all so daft. Pointless, frustrating, unfuriating, and all to no
purpose whatsoever.

After hours of trying this fix and that one (there are quite a few on
offer here and there by well-meaning contributors to various forums) I
finally came across a fix that's beautifully presented and that seems to
work. Well, most of the time.

The nett result of it all, is that I now click into an Explorer window
with a sinking heart, wondering what will await me there. Can you
believe it!

I have persevered, but I just can't take this any more.

I have now written to the manufacturer of my new machine, asking if
there's any way I can run XP on it. I'll happily pay for any drivers,
discs, whatever, just as long as I can get back to a system that does as
I tell it. If that option isn't open to me with my new machine, then
I'll dispose of it and get back to a system that does do as I tell it.

So, that's my couple of pence worth.

Vista is, actually, very pretty. Doubtless it will improve and it may,
one day, become as fast as XP. Whether Vista SP1 will address the issue
of Explorer windows doing their own thing, is something I don't know.
Mind you, I see that MS is addressing things like "Version 5.00 of the
Mongolian Baiti font may be displayed incorrectly in Windows Vista", so
you never know your luck!

Best wishes,

Adrian


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Adrian
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