Lest we forget
I have not worked with a Windows Vista computer in some time. I forgot how bad it sucked. Now, let us qualify sucking. I have never used a computer that has a respectable hardware stat-sheet, and been so dog slow in all of my life.
Case and point: Today I am using a Toshiba Laptop that has a Intel Pentium Dual-Core 1.6 GHz processor and 2 GB of ram. Now while these two figures alone do not give us a perfect picture of expected performance any machine with these components should be just fine.
I clicked the start orb, then on control panel. Ten minutes later the control panel came up. Ten minutes. I sat there waiting for just the control panel. I then selected ‘Network and sharing’, another 3 minutes. After it finally opens all looks fine there, I now need to add a printer. Go back to Control Panel. After 7 minutes of just sitting there with that blue donut whirling it finally did something. Yes folks, a flash of a blue screen and the computer restarted.
I wish that I could take this computer and do one of two things, install something else, like my favorite free operating system, or downgrade to Windows XP or upgrade to Windows 7. But alas, it is not my computer. It is the personal computer of a co-worker who needs access to certain things on our network. I won’t go into the pain of this running windows Vista Home Premium and that connecting even to drives in our active directory is a hack at best. That will be a post for another day.
Tags: Windows