Comments on: Author sounds off on Vista's annoyances

David Karp, who has chronicled pet peeves since Windows 95, says the complaints over Vista echo past gripes. But solving Vista's issues proves more challenging.

[A_N_Onymous]

I can't believe someone makes money off that

Those annoyances are just plain stupid. Explorer doesn't crash for me making thumbnails, maybe perhaps if you are making thumbnails of video files using a third party codec...sound settings that are burried? Come on, it is easy enough to get to them, the sound options are split, playback or recording devices...how hard is that?

I really worry about a world where Windows Vista is "too hard" for someone to use. Someone writting a book about annoyances in Windows must have a boring life, it isn't like Microsoft is going to actually listen...

The only thing I agree with is explorer does often choose the incorrect view for files, that's about it.

[kvett]

Vista

Our company has a group of 5 system administrators. We are all early adopters of Vista - and we are all going back to XP - temporarily of course. Microsoft is bound to fix Vista in a year or so. (We are having various problems with system tools, drivers, search ... ) Recently I pulled an old laptop with XP from the trash and was surprised how much faster it was to work with...

[wil_w_s]

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