>Hi, Calvin.
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>>Why does Vista suck? Well, I suppose that I have done a good bit of programming as if I was the one in charge. I tell the program to create a file and it creates a file. I tell the program to delete a file and it deletes a file and so forth. Vista has told me that I am not in charge. M$ is in charge and I am tolerated.
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>>The reason that I posted VISTA SUCKS today was a failure of the 'If File(somefilename) etc' when the file plainly exists. It is on another drive/machine but for some reason Vista will not let me see it. This line of code is in an update exe. The same code in the production exe works. This and any number of like annoyances has caused me to reach the limit of my patience ( at least for this afternoon).
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>I know it can be frustrating. I won't say it sucks, but I still don't see it shine too much either.
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>As for your problem, take in consideration that all users are non-admin in Vista by default, which seems a bit extreme, but it surely help make it a safer environment for most people. Something you can do to solve some problems on your machine is to change your user rights and make yourself admin with full privileges.
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>Hope this helps,


I installed Vista on a little-used notebook PC not long ago and wound up having to use it over the weekend. I got one of my daughters an iPod for her birthday and needed to install it on a different computer from the one where her sister's iPod is set up. (If there is a way to support two iPods on one Windows computer, it wasn't obvious to me). The security was a little too much of a good thing. I am not a network administrator by any means but can usually muddle my way around a simple three PC home network. Not in this case. All I wanted to do was copy some files from one XP machine to the Vista machine. I set up the obvious sharing options so it seemed like it should work. No way, no how. Finally I was able to get the files there by copying them to a Public folder but it was really a quest for such a simple task.

It was also dog slow. And Windows Explorer under Vista seems extremely unintuitive compared to the old version.

I finally decided enough of this and decided to go back to XP. Guess what? Foiled again. It wouldn't let me revert back to XP, uninstall Vista, or format C:. If I had read enough beforehand to realize I was committing that machine to Vista I wouldn't have even given it a look-see.

This is supposed to be an upgrade?