I think the world has seen enough over the top Vista bashing. I did want to share some of my bad experiences for others though. I have to say I am amazed by reading the press that I didn’t have more problems than I did. If you believe what a number of reviewers and tech minds would have to believe you would think that Vista was about as useful to you as a newspaper is to a homeless man in the rain.
User Account Control in Vista is annoying, but not driving me crazy yet.
The only device I had trouble with getting to work with Vista was my old Logitech keyboard. Other than that though, all my other gadgets seem to have worked the first time around.
Had to finally upgrade my old version of NoteTab Pro to the newest version (actually ended up buying NoteTab Std cause it got the job done for me.
I don’t like it that Vista sometimes forgets how I want my folder options to be set as. Some I want to keep in one view type and others at a different view type. Shouldn’t be that hard to do.
I’m miffed that they couldn’t be bothered to update some of the old traditional Windows apps - like the calculator, sound recorder or even add a spell checker to notepad (or WordPad).
I finally figured it out, but it took about three hours to find the best way to network the Vista and XP machines in my house to talk to one another. They’re now good friends.
Next time, I’ll tackle some of things I actually like and enjoy about Vista.
…now read about the good things about Windows Vista!
I think having a PC that could support Vista played a big roll in my ease of use too. With the networking issues - the short version of the story would be I had to re-setup the network on each PC (4 in all) and then I had to find where exactly to change the name for the network in Vista “Which is nowhere near networking, it is under Control Panel > System and Maintenance > System”. After that, I restarted them all and it worked. 
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