Four Graphical User Interfaces in Vista that just needs fixed:

The First and foremost is the User Access Control, UAC for short. The UAC is never been ready for Windows. Microsoft knew this and so did most of the Beta testers who were formerly known as LongHorn Project. The UAC has several shortcommings. The one that really burns my biscuit is after you disable the UAC. The way you disable the UAC is by Start, type msconfig.exe [ENTER]. Once Msconfig loads up you click on the tools tabs, Looking for [Disable UAC] hightlight it. Click Launch. That’s it no more UAC, btw You have to have ADMIN for all users to be able to disable UAC for all accounts. Now everytime I boot up it comes up with a Security alert saying, your system is not protected(A scare tactic that I do not like). So you have to google to find the other reg code needed to disable that little icon from showing up. Go google and find out how.

The second and most annoying is game play for Vista. Most if not all my games have some kind of trouble with vista. Wolfenstein:Enemy Terriroty, COD the Original, and some others the ones that I like the most do not work. Vista always says they stop responding and has to exit. I’ve tried everything from googling the games and vista and nothing. I’ve also had problems with programs like Trillian and other programs stop responding or have difficulty running due to Vista. Most of my games I have to load up Ubuntu and play it in Linux, if you think it is hard actually it is quite easy. This one the only work around that actually works.

The third one is DRM(Digital Rights Management). DRM has been a thorn in people sides ever since they first introduced it. It is designed to prevent people from illegally copying content, but the truth is If I have a copy of Harry Potter and I wanted to take it on the plane to watch but leave the CD home, that is not going to happen. The Vista DRM will not allow anyone to copy files to the hard drive to view later, althought there will always be tools to circumvent it. DRM just makes it harder on the end user and tries to control every aspect of Copy Protection.

The Forth is the System speed on Vista. I have a dual core 1.67ghz system and every time Vista runs and startups it takes from anywhere 2 mins to 5 mins for everything to be ready after logging into my account. I also think the system is sluggish and slow in whenever I try to use a large file. I admit I have 1gig of memory for the system. I know it might slow it down but XP only needs 128 megs of memory to run. I do not think it should slow down this much. If it wasn’t for ReadyBoost this system wouldn’t be running Vista, I’d have install Ubuntu and wipe the system clean.

With that said, I hope when SP1 Comes out for Vista it makes the system more stable, and secure and more useable.