Every day a new reason surfaces for my hatred of Vista. Today it was SQL Express being unable to browse particular directories. Turned out to be a combination of Symbolic Links and NTFS Permissions. Then just now (and this happens repeatedly, at least a few times a week) Outlook just stops responding. Sits there. I click it, it greys-out. I click it again and nothing happens. I close it and it tells me it's not responding (duh!) and that I should wait while Windows tries to figure out what's wrong. Unless it's planning on formatting my drive and reinstalling with XP, it won't ever figure it out.
ARGH!
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25 comments:
This is maybe your funniest post yet! I'm cracking up.
That line should go down in history:
"Unless it's planning on formatting my drive and reinstalling with XP, it won't ever figure it out."
I burst out laughing when I read it.
-Los Angeles
First of all, FUCK VISTA! I repair vista machines on a daily basis and must say the only working solution out there for Vista is to downgrade it back to WINXP or UPGRADE to Linux instead!! I bought a new dell 1720 notebook with pre-installed vista and it crashed the very first day!!! After spending hours of reloading and troubleshooting, I installed a hacked version of Leopard. It has been 9 months now and still going STRONG!! I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO MICRO$OFT AGAIN!!!
Vista is great! Unless of course you were not part of the Mojave Experiment!
Vista is great! Unless of course you actually wanted to use your computer your way.
Vista is great! Unless of course you did not want to replace all of the software you used to run on previous versions.
However, if you bought a new computer with Vista on it and had hoped for a better computing experience that you had on your old pc with XP, the you basically fucked yourself with the most fucked up operating system Microshaft ever fucked up!
I'm so happy now. I formatted my HD and got rid of Vista. I installed XP and searched for the drivers I needed. Now my computer runs like crazy. Windows pop up instantly, Firefox can actually surf the web, Media Player can play a movie without delays. I'm so damn happy. Goodbye forever Vista!!!
googled "i fucking hate vista"
the next computer i am buying is a macbook pro, and i thank microsoft for finally forcing me to turn away from crappy microsoft OSes that cant run for more than 48 hours without some sort of crash.
i have specific examples... irfanview, clicking on new links sometimes in firefox, acdsee, and internet explorer have all found reasons to crash in vista.
also IE is so goddamn slow in everything it does.
Yes i typed i fuckin hate vista for the same reason everyone above me did. My old computer was giving me issues so i broke down and got a new one thinking things would be better and i cant believe how frustrating VISTA is. I am not extremely computer literate but the amount of online searching i have down to get things to work on this new system may just have cetrified me as a computer programer! We need to come up with a consumer law to sue for mental anguish. AND YES I FUCKING HATE IT.
this IS amazing. I hate dell. I have a 9 month old dell POS system(that's piece of shit just in case you might have thought point-of-sale system) laptop I paid the extra hundred bucks to have them 'downgrade' it to XP from vista and i suspect the gd thing is really like a zebra with a coat of whitewash on it. First rainstorm and I'll be seeing the stripes! THE goddamned thing shut off 5 times today - right in the middle of things - just 'dink' and then gone black - i wish someone would start a class action against these fucks and microshit for selling such crap. Don't bother calling tech support - you'll be on near terminal hold and the connect to some tard that can't do anything more than read from the script. I'm gnna keep beating on this thing to within 10 days of the exp of the warranty then order a new Compaq/HP and return this piece of shit as DOA. It sure is comforting and kinda surprising to see so many others with similar issues.
I too was frustrated and googled something like GODDAMN FUCKING VISTA DENIES ME ACCESS and came here.
I love you guys!
PS it also shows -in one and the same window- that I am both connected to the internet and am disconnected from the internet. How crappy is that!?
I too googled The Phrase, and I too wish that I could cast Vista into a pit of everlasting flame. It's slow. It freezes for no reason. It has decided that PowerPoint is never going to work. It downloads programs to random folders in completely nonsensical places. It MOVES folders without explaining why it has. It will not run Explorer (not that I am fond of Explorer either). It will not run ANY of my hardware properly unless I spend several hours searching for Vista drivers that it then refuses to download. It disconnects me from the Internet every five minutes. It makes every piece of software I own believe that I have not registered it yet. It gives me the Twirling Blue Circle of Frustration whenever I simply try to scroll down the screen.
In combination with my horrible Acer keyboard, which has the "Enter" and "Shift" buttons in the wrong places and occasionally shifts the computer into French mode for no particular reason, Vista makes me want to set this laptop on fire and drop it off my balcony. Congratulations, Bill Gates. Well done, sir.
I also googled 'Vista is fucking shit'. I would love to meet the disillusioned moron architect who thinks he's done a good job with this version..Windows follows a reverse Darwin theory in that on each incarnation it assumes the end user is dumber than the previous.
I know this thread is old, but I cannot help but join in with the vile hatred I have for Vista!!
The whole team responsible for this festering shit-pile named Vista should be dragged behind a pickup over broken glass, and before dying, be staked out in the sun for the ants to feast upon.
Everyone passing by should be encouraged to defecate upon them. Even their children should be made to suffer for the crime of having such idiotic parents!
I have informed all my family members that I will NOT make any repairs to a Vista PC, other than to format C: and install linux. If they have a desperate needed windows-only application, are especially nice, include me in their will, and bake lots of cookies, XP.
Apart from all the “normal” Vista shite that is going on is anybody getting this fuckin’ message saying your Hard Drive is shagged… replace it?
I have spent day trying to sort this bastard problem out and haven’t been able to, also like all the other feckin’ shite that happens with Vista there never appears to be a solution on any of the forums, just loads of people with the same shitty problem and a few die-hard Vista nerds popping up every so often saying that Vista is the best operating system ever.
A message for Bill Gates : - you, sir, are a fucking gobshite of the highest order, Vista is the software equivalent of a Camel… i.e. a Horse designed by a fucking committee.
Also you should be fucked up the arse with the rough end of a
Pineapple for allowing that piece of abysmal shite out into the field.
Oh yeah Billy boy, and I hope you get shafted up the shitter for billions of $’s by this lawsuit to withdraw Word in 60 days and rewrite it because it infringes on someone else’s patent.
Thankyou and goodnight.
JCMB i just bought a new unit. Nothing works without having to spend ages trying to work out why it didnt work to start with. JCMB microsoft... now i will have to buy no.7 just to see... (i seemingly need windows) to see how bad it can now really get. Why why why dont they just dump themselves off this stupid merry-go-round horse and shit fresh somewhere in a field instead?
I just googled "I fucking Hate Vista," because i FUCKING HATE VISTA! Just to see what happened- and I found your site, you did the same thing, Ha! Great. That puts a smile on my face, that it can be googled with profanity and the vista hater community comes out. It helps my frustration over this crap program a little itty bit. Sort of. Ok Not really cuz now i have to go back to it. Ughhhhhhh. Why wasn't I warned, why didn't I do my research?!?!?!!!
i just googled those magic words too and found this site! I am usually a calm person, never swear and have good manners, but vista unleashes this f**king foul mouthed monster inside me. It has immense dark powers.
I'd like all of us to print this forum out, wipe our arses with it, and then send it to Microsoft
You all obviously have issues cause I love Vista, I love waking up in the morning and getting anally raped everytime i log on. Or that special memory I have of actually paying to upgrade to this lovely software. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside; though that could be the feeling of Vista's 12 incher unloading inside of me....
Just tried a few hours to configure Vista to let files be overwritten via a networked XP computer. No working solution found -- inspite of all the help pages you can find on the web. I ended up googling "fuck vista". We all make one mistake: thinking, Vista is a multi-purpose IT system. It isn't. It actually has two purposes: (1) dictating a text to WordPad -- speech recognition really works nice; and if you don't need that (2) to be thrown against a wall.
There's a really beautiful sense of community on this site. I love it. It's good to know that there are others out there. We are not alone. At first I felt guilty.. was I doing something wrong? Was it me? Perhaps I just wasn't good with computers. But now I know that Vista is just really, really poo.
If vista was an animal its species would have died long ago. Not because it is slow and passes out like a narcoleptic slow norris, but because I would have hunted its sorry fat ass down and killed it and all its children.
Ah,- that's better.
I too dislike vista
If vista was a man, I'd eat his children. I'd dance to musical instruments made from the bones of his grandmother. I'd get a monkey island style voodoo doll of his wife and give it to a volcano as a present. I'd jump on his liver like a kangaroo. I'd urinate in his Corn Flakes. I'd make little incisions on the straps of his flip flops so they break in a week. After all this, everyone will say, "Hey, there goes vista, what a douche". -Freddie Mercury
Sorry... For my last post please read--- Updated for Upgrades --- The only thing I would EVER upgrade Vista to is something UNIX based.
Vista is a very productive marketing tool for Microsoft. They first experimented with the technique using Windows ME. Anyone remember that fiasco? The strategy is give the consumer something that is quite literally a piece of crap OS, purposely flawed of course, making sure that the new OS requires most of your programs must be replaced because they are no longer compatible with the new (and improved) OS, or your programs run so erratically the only recourse is to try a never version of the program, hoping it will work better. It will not. Now Microsoft is quite content to sit idly by while you bang your head on the wall in frustration. They are sitting idly by waiting for you the consumer to be ripe for the picking, at which point they will offer up for your consumption Windows 7, which will conveniently resolve most of your Vista issues. Consider yourselves duped, and contemplate Linux instead.