Let's talk about Windows Vista

So yeah I was looking at the new website for vista last week for some reason and it doesn't seem that bad. Some of the ideas are even pretty good even though I'm sure most would say it's just taking stuff that OSX and Linux have been doing for years but hey it's finally arrived for the main market or rather it will sometime in early 2007.

I haven't seen a thread regarding Vista in a while so I wanted to know what everyone's thoughts were and if there were any tidbits and details that anyone could show me. I remember there was some sort of evil copyright system DRM or DMR or something like that that everyone was going nuts over. Anybody here know anything more about that?

Anyway, here's the website and wiki for those that are interested.

http://www.microsoft.com/Windowsvista/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista

Discuss!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If most of the Windows applications I use for XP still work and future applications for Vista are easily cracked and you can turn off that DRM bullshit I'd buy Windows Vista Ultimate.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Where the hell are you getting it for $45? I've only found it OEM for $200.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

That was actually pretty neat. Even with the slowdown of using it remote access I got what I thought I'd like. I really really like the new explorer and feel of vista.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, I turned UAC off. It was really fucking annoying. I imagine that if they don't do some sort of major upgrade to let off the hassle in an update in the future then most people will end up doing the same.

I was speaking idiomatically.

You can go to the shortcut of the program or the program itself and tell it to run in Administrator mode. Also, you should probably turn off Vista's UAC because that shit is hella annoying.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

User Account Control. Name basically says it.

Anyway go to Control Panel, then User Accounts, and click on Turn User Account Control on or off. It'll probably say nooo y u do this? or something but it's pretty simple and then Vista is cool beans with just about everything.

No prob, I did a bit of research before diving into Vista so I knew what I was doing and what to avoid and such when I installed it. I did fool around to see how UAC reacts to certain things and basically it reacts to just about everything. It's not as exaggerated as some amusing images from its betas might tell you but it does get old after a while.

FELIPE NO

Yeah, I imagine they'll probably do that eventually with a service pack. The problem is very apparent when you think of it from a user's stand point. They probably decided to put it off for later and get the product out.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Here, I always back-up my previous installations so I went and got the games that work for Vista which is most of them. Unfortunately Internet Backgammon, I. Checkers, I. Hearts, I. Reversi, and I. Spades don't work.

I've included Freecell, Hearts, Minesweeper, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, and even Space Cadet Pinball. Some of the card games require the included cards.dll to be in the same folder, so don't lose it. Enjoy! =)

Just a note, to find out where these games were all you'd have to do is go through your old xp start menu

Documents and Settings -> All Users -> Start Menu -> Programs -> Games

and look at where the shortcuts point to by looking at their target properties.

Jam it back in, in the dark.