"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.wetb8lg2eav7ka@steves-laptop... > On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:29:25 -0400, Nick Sabalausky > <seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com> wrote: > >> "Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:op.wer3hmsreav7ka@steves-laptop... > >>> Although I would replace Vista in your narrative with Win7. Vista was a >>> horrible abortion that should never have seen the light of day. >>> >> >> Maybe so, but if I were to upgrade from XP, I would be torn between Vista >> and 7 because Vista at least lets me have my taskbar instead of a dock. >> >> And Vista doesn't pop-up tons of shit everytime the pointer gets near the >> bottom of the screen. I'd never be able to get any work done if I had >> (barely-distinguishable) mini-screenshots constantly popping up to >> "help" me >> all time like Win7 loves to do. They've killed Clippy, but his ghost >> remains >> as a poltergeist spreading thruout Windows (and IE8). > > Sorry, I will take this *any day* instead of: > > me: start-> control panel > vista: FLASHING RED SIRENS! DANGER! DANGER! SOMETHING, WHICH I CANNOT > DETERMINE AND AM ULTIMATELY SUSPICIOUS OF, STARTED CONTROL PANEL, DO YOU > WANT TO ALLOW THIS? > me: yes, dumb shit I JUST CLICKED ON IT! > vista: Are you sure? I mean some malicious software may have clicked on > it for you the *split second* before you did! > me: yes. > vista: ok, proceed. > me: click on printers in control panel > vista: FLASHING RED SIRENS! DANGER! DANGER! SOMETHING OPENED THE PRINTER > CONFIGURATION TOOL! and this time IT REALLY COULD BE MALICIOUS SOFTWARE > (you know how they like to mischievously check your printer queue)!!!!! > me: GRRRRRR. > ... >
First of all, there's a Vista machine I occasionally use, and it's definitely *not* like that. You might just be remembering some really early version of Vista. Secondly, even if that were the case, that's (more-or-less) only when you go into system settings (which may or may not be frequent). But the dock and screenshot popups are *always*. > at least the taskbar is a user preference (and I'm pretty sure you can > revert that), It isn't, and you can't. I've checked all over, internet search, etc. If you're on Win7, you have the Win7 dock, period. There's a lot of internet knuckleheads that show you how *ahem* "turn it off", but that's *only* for the skin - ie Aero - the *least* significant aspect of Win7's Dock. Even the 3rd party "Classic Shell" doesn't bring back the real taskbar. As for the popup screenshots, you can *sort of* disable them, sometimes, but apperently it's pretty flakey and doesn't even work for everyone: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/how-do-you-disable-the-taskbar-preview-window-pop/cf46aeaa-e4f1-4c39-a2d0-0824e174ebed > > Truth be told, I really like the win7 interface vs. the xp interface. > Start menu searching is the best improvement ever. I frequently use the > little window previews that you hate. But vista is frankly unusable. > I agree Vista's more or less unusable, but I feel the same way about Win7 (and yes, I have used Win7, and not just "played around with it in a store").