Microsoft Vista Ultimate op.ed

[alfredman]

I got around to installing my Ultra ATA 250GB drive into my new machine today, and I started consolidating all my partitions. It took about 9 hours for physical installation and copying stuff, etc, which isn't too bad. Although 3 of those hours was just trying to put the bloody drive in, and then realising I have to swap the DVD writer to the

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[ranneko]

You are really selling the new start menu short Alf

[alfredman]

I didn't actually try the Start Menu because the first I saw of it sort of said to me "This is the XP Start Menu that I hate so much", so I turned it off in favour of the Classic one.

I might give it a try tomorrow, but most of the points you brought up are pretty much my pet hate of the XP Start Menu: that it is doing the thinking for me. So I don't think I'll be liking it too much.

[ranneko]

Fair enough. I used to hate the XP menu too, mainly because I'd never used it, and I expected it to be unpredictable and different to what I was used to.

That said, in Vista due to the combination of the run/filter start menu thing and the Games Explorer, I never actually go into my actual start menu anymore.

And I remember how annoying it was to sort everything in my start menu to keep it from going into another column, especially when you haven't formatted in a few years.

[nescienx]

VISTA START MENU IS LOVE, KAY!