Re: I am praying for the Doggie to return based on Vista Search!
- From: "Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:02:16 +0200
My next computer will be a MAC too.
Alias
"matchstich" <matchstich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> when my xp dies, im going with a mac
> --
> xp-pro,sp2,ff1.0.6,40gb,380mb
> vig mobo,900gz,
> computer newbie
>
>
> "evieg" wrote:
>
>> Has anyone run Vista Beta1 yet? I did and I can tell you that the
>> vaunted search feature Microsoft is talking about as an improvement -
>> really sucks!!
>>
>> I made fun of the doggie in XP that showed up first-time until you turned
>> it off - but if all that was wrong with Vista search was a Doggie -
>> please give me the Doggie back again to turn it off. Of course in XP you
>> can tweak it to give you Classic Search and I am praying that Microsoft
>> allows Classic Search in Vista. Search is a mess.
>>
>> I find the whole concept stupid of searching for MetaData (that little
>> junk included in MP3 files for example showing the Artist Name, etc) in
>> just pure files that you want to know where they are at. Do you really
>> care that Joe Blow Created this file on April 12th, 1999 or do you just
>> want access to the file and can't remember all the details - but you know
>> it was an *.exe file you downloaded in a month or so ago?
>>
>> You cannot perform a Global Search of your computer with the new Search
>> Feature of Vista - you are limited to whatever folder you have open. I
>> just put Cool Search on the system to have a workable search engine.
>> Lousy feature that MS better change. Stupid.
>>
>> Tons of stuff wrong with Vista. I use my computer - a P4 2.8 Ghz
>> machine primarily to capture video. I have 512MB memory but use the
>> Intel Graphic Chip embedded that gives me up to 96MB of video as needed
>> memory. I installed the Intel Chip driver manually and worked fine - but
>> Vista has a thing where it controls your multimedia apps and decides how
>> to give them video priority.
>>
>> With it running my TV-card could barely show a picture every other third
>> frame - even though it uses no memory as it has its own MPEG-2 chip built
>> in and encodes internally before shooting out.
>>
>> As expected - I just turned off most of the services - and everything
>> worked perfect - Vista is after all just another flavor of NT5
>> (2000/XP/and now Vista).
>>
>> But I see nothing here worthy of the name of an improvement - just a
>> flashy GUI and junk as the underlying theme.
>>
>> period
>>
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