Yes, I know, it’s a bit late for me to be going on about problems in Vista since Windows 7 will be publicly available in a matter of months, but I’ve just been reflecting on how annoying it really is. A couple of days ago, a friend of mine set up a user account for …
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Jul
30
2009
Microsoft extending browser choice to XP and Vista as well as Windows 7
Remember a while back when I was talking about Microsoft giving users the choice of which browser they use in Windows 7? Well, Microsoft is apparently now going extend this consideration to Windows XP and Vista too. From what I’ve heard from various sites on the net, Microsoft will be releasing an update (via Windows …
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May
26
2009
Why is Vista’s disk defragmentation system so bad?
Ever since Microsoft released Windows Vista in 2007, I’ve absolutely hated the Disk Defragmenter in the operating system. It was fine in 98, 2000, and XP, but in Vista it is absolutely stupid. For some reason, it automatically decides that you want to defragment all of your disk drives by default – and most of …
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