I uninstalled Norton and everything Acrobat related also because they were so incredibly annoying and only trial versions anyways!
It helped nothing for me...my comment to another post above mentions issues all after uninstalling.
I, for the record, am so sick of my brand new Sony Vaio VGN-SZ650N $$$$ laptop with Vista that I'm ready to throw it through the window. However, Vista is all that the stores sell laptops with these days and I needed a new laptop ASAP. I've only had the machine for 1 week now, so keep that in mind...also I was on vacation, so I haven't tested it with all my programs yet.
It's just the little things so far that have driven me nuts--though I'll admit it's probably 80% Vista-based crap and 20% or so Sony-only crap.
-One of the first things I noticed is that I bought a laptop with a 160 GB hard drive, but of that only 100 GB were free for me to use. Recovery partition? Really? Wonder how I'd access that...there's not another "hard drive" as if I had 2 partitions. Guess I'll figure that out later.
-Slowness...here's an example:
I hibernate the computer, I open the computer back up, hit a key....wait 2-5 minutes, see the screen flash 3-4 times, sometimes with stupid Vista logos etc but usually just flashing for no good reason. Finally I can log in.
I scan my finger/type in my password. Wait 2-5 more minutes, see the screen flash some more, Google Desktop crashes, the screen resizes so that there's an inch of black space on either side, no wireless network automatically connected even though there's one I told it to connect to. At about 5 minutes or so I can actually start using the computer, though I'm sure that something else is running (only a handful of things were not removed from startup) because the stupid thing that replaced the hour glass is going and nothing is responding.
Is this what you'd expect from 2GB RAM, Core Duo 2 T7500, Nvidia dedicated graphics, hybrid hard drive system?
Also annoying: -I put a DVD in my drive and realized that Vista didn't recognize my drive at all... first trip to the Vaio support page. Great. Got that working by editing the registry! Already! Apparently there's some issue with Roxio crapware stealing my DVD rights when it's removed.
-Every time I rename, copy, delete, install, etc a file... EACH time a dialog box appears that says I have to confirm this operation, even though the ONLY option is confirm and this DOES NOT require me to put in a password. You can't even imagine how many times I've hit "Confirm" while stripping this computer of all its preinstalled crap and getting my important data/programs on here. I'm sure I can prevent it somehow, but why the hell would they make Vista this annoying?
-Grand Theft Auto San Andreas was actually skipping on here, even though nothing else was running and I had the laptop on its highest performance mode, while my 5-yr old Toshiba could play that game without ANY trouble at all. It had dedicated Nvidia graphics also and could easily heat a small room, but it was significantly faster than this setup with Vista! (I used it up until 2 weeks ago when it finally died of overheating).
-Shear amount of crap software that came with Vista...also a Sony issue, but anyways...it sure looks like every company got in on the party on here, but everything was an annoying trial version. The level of NAGGING by Norton and Acrobat got so bad that I just plain removed everything with either title and replaced with my own software. I'll admit I added Norton Ghost later, but obviously that has nothing to do with their trial crapware.
-I already crashed explorer...by double clicking on "Computer" (aka My Computer). At least this only happened once so far. Only other things running were Google Desktop and Firefox.
-After uninstalling Acrobat and all its minions, I still can't get Firefox to automatically use Foxit instead...yet another issue to work out.
-I once accidentally clicked a link to a mailto form (but I dont have Outlook on here) and it opened a bunch of IE windows, one every second or so until I killed it through the Task Manager... which was particularly interesting considering I was using Firefox.
-Vaio automatic updates icon on the Taskbar links only to
A friend of mine was working with the GA Tech Small (soccer-playing) robot division, but we're out of town right now (until Friday). Here are lots of pictures and a schedule though, for those in the Atlanta area or looking for updates. We'll post some "before" GA Tech pictures to that gallery sometime soon, too.
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I uninstalled Norton and everything Acrobat related also because they were so incredibly annoying and only trial versions anyways! It helped nothing for me...my comment to another post above mentions issues all after uninstalling.
I, for the record, am so sick of my brand new Sony Vaio VGN-SZ650N $$$$ laptop with Vista that I'm ready to throw it through the window. However, Vista is all that the stores sell laptops with these days and I needed a new laptop ASAP. I've only had the machine for 1 week now, so keep that in mind...also I was on vacation, so I haven't tested it with all my programs yet.
It's just the little things so far that have driven me nuts--though I'll admit it's probably 80% Vista-based crap and 20% or so Sony-only crap.
-One of the first things I noticed is that I bought a laptop with a 160 GB hard drive, but of that only 100 GB were free for me to use. Recovery partition? Really? Wonder how I'd access that...there's not another "hard drive" as if I had 2 partitions. Guess I'll figure that out later.
-Slowness...here's an example:
I hibernate the computer, I open the computer back up, hit a key....wait 2-5 minutes, see the screen flash 3-4 times, sometimes with stupid Vista logos etc but usually just flashing for no good reason. Finally I can log in.
I scan my finger/type in my password. Wait 2-5 more minutes, see the screen flash some more, Google Desktop crashes, the screen resizes so that there's an inch of black space on either side, no wireless network automatically connected even though there's one I told it to connect to. At about 5 minutes or so I can actually start using the computer, though I'm sure that something else is running (only a handful of things were not removed from startup) because the stupid thing that replaced the hour glass is going and nothing is responding.
Is this what you'd expect from 2GB RAM, Core Duo 2 T7500, Nvidia dedicated graphics, hybrid hard drive system?
Also annoying:
-I put a DVD in my drive and realized that Vista didn't recognize my drive at all... first trip to the Vaio support page. Great. Got that working by editing the registry! Already! Apparently there's some issue with Roxio crapware stealing my DVD rights when it's removed.
-Every time I rename, copy, delete, install, etc a file... EACH time a dialog box appears that says I have to confirm this operation, even though the ONLY option is confirm and this DOES NOT require me to put in a password. You can't even imagine how many times I've hit "Confirm" while stripping this computer of all its preinstalled crap and getting my important data/programs on here. I'm sure I can prevent it somehow, but why the hell would they make Vista this annoying?
-Grand Theft Auto San Andreas was actually skipping on here, even though nothing else was running and I had the laptop on its highest performance mode, while my 5-yr old Toshiba could play that game without ANY trouble at all. It had dedicated Nvidia graphics also and could easily heat a small room, but it was significantly faster than this setup with Vista! (I used it up until 2 weeks ago when it finally died of overheating).
-Shear amount of crap software that came with Vista...also a Sony issue, but anyways...it sure looks like every company got in on the party on here, but everything was an annoying trial version. The level of NAGGING by Norton and Acrobat got so bad that I just plain removed everything with either title and replaced with my own software. I'll admit I added Norton Ghost later, but obviously that has nothing to do with their trial crapware.
-I already crashed explorer...by double clicking on "Computer" (aka My Computer). At least this only happened once so far. Only other things running were Google Desktop and Firefox.
-After uninstalling Acrobat and all its minions, I still can't get Firefox to automatically use Foxit instead...yet another issue to work out.
-I once accidentally clicked a link to a mailto form (but I dont have Outlook on here) and it opened a bunch of IE windows, one every second or so until I killed it through the Task Manager... which was particularly interesting considering I was using Firefox.
-Vaio automatic updates icon on the Taskbar links only to
A friend of mine was working with the GA Tech Small (soccer-playing) robot division, but we're out of town right now (until Friday). Here are lots of pictures and a schedule though, for those in the Atlanta area or looking for updates. We'll post some "before" GA Tech pictures to that gallery sometime soon, too.