Vista unusable

Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. Windows Vista Desktop UI. Such issues include folders, AERO, toolbars, etc. Sign in to vote. Surely someone at MS has experienced this problem and issued a hot fix for it. I tried applying hotfix but the problem still remains. As a test, I created a simple text file and tried moving it to the recycle bin.

The CTR dialog box stays up for over 30 seconds. This is also true when I try to empty the recycle bin. Normal opening and closing of files from the network seems to operate at good speed, but if someone doesn't solve this problem, it will continue to make Vista unusable. While these inexpensive machines are powerful enough to provide a solid Internet experience for most users, they don't have enough resources to run Windows Vista, so they all run either Windows XP or Linux.

Intel expects this market to explode in the years ahead. For more on netbooks and nettops, see this fact sheet and this presentation -- both are PDFs from Intel. Vista has over 50 million lines of code. XP had 35 million when it was released, and since then it has grown to about 40 million. This software bloat has had the effect of slowing down Windows Vista, especially when it's running on anything but the latest and fastest hardware. Even then, the latest version of Windows XP soundly outperforms the latest version of Microsoft Vista.

No one wants to use a new computer that is slower than their old one. The XP stood for "experience" and was part of Microsoft's. NET Web services strategy at the time. The master plan was to get users and businesses to pay a yearly subscription fee for the Windows experience -- XP would essentially be the on-going product name but would include all software upgrades and updates, as long as you paid for your subscription.

Of course, it would disable Windows on your PC if you didn't pay. That's why product activation was coupled with Windows XP. Microsoft released Windows XP and Office XP simultaneously in and both included product activation and the plan to eventually migrate to subscription products.

However, by the end of Microsoft had already abandoned the subscription concept with Office , and quickly returned to the shrink-wrapped business model and the old product development model with both products.

The idea of doing incremental releases and upgrades of its software -- rather than a major shrink-wrapped release every years -- was a good concept. Microsoft just couldn't figure out how to make the business model work, but instead of figuring out how to get it right, it took the easy route and went back to an old model that was simply not very well suited to the economic and technical realities of today's IT world.

Microsoft either forgot or disregarded that fact when it released Windows Vista, because, despite a long beta period, a lot of existing software and hardware were not compatible with Vista when it was released in January Since many important programs and peripherals were unusable in Vista, that made it impossible for a lot of IT departments to adopt it. Many of the incompatibilities were the result of tighter security. After Windows was targeted by a nasty string of viruses, worms, and malware in the early s, Microsoft embarked on the Trustworthy Computing initiative to make its products more secure.

The other big piece of Trustworthy Computing was the even-further-locked-down version of Windows that Microsoft released in Vista. This was definitely the most secure OS that Microsoft had ever released but the price was user-hostile features such as UAC, a far more complicated set of security prompts that accompanied many basic tasks, and a host of software incompatibility issues.

In other words, Vista broke a lot of the things that users were used to doing in XP. Security isn't even that big of an issue because XP SP2 and above are solid and most IT departments have it locked down quite well. Tuesday, May 26, PM. I guess it is not MapGuide after all since I have not installed anything since restoring back to the point before Mapguide was installed and the problem is back.

Do I understand correctly that this is a random check so you can't know which install caused it? Especially if you are rebuilding a system from scratch and installing more than one thing a day? Is there a way to check after installing each peice of software that things are still O. At least then I would know which is the problem. Is there any chance it is not software? One of the MS documents says a disk error can cause it. I have run every test I can get my hands on against my disk and it looks good but I'm willing to replace it if there is even a chance of having a PC again.

I've always gone legit on my software to avoid problems like this. Now I am so desperate I may have to buy a new machine just to get up and runnign again. Will it have problems too? Help, please! Sunday, May 24, AM. Terms of Use.