5th November 2007, 8:51 PM
Why DOES MS waste so much time on utterly "worthless features"... I could list a lot of things...the first two points apply to XP too, not just Vista.
-the impenetrable maze of folders they bury things in, making it incredibly hard to actually find files on your hard drive -- XP really started this trend, and Vista is even worse... I like being able to actually find things, and MS REALLY doesn't want you to do that with any files connected to Windows. Blah.
-I want things to save all of their data files IN THEIR DIRECTORY! Why the HECK do some games create their save-game folders in the Documents directory, or their screenshots in the Pictures directory... that's so stupid, and makes finding those files hard (so you can move those screenshots to your folder for that game in your screenshot folder, for instance)... there's really no reasonable explanation for this. How is separating and hiding both the data and user files helpful in any way?
-The sidebar in the Start Menu. First it's got links to your personal folders -- AccountName (bbf), Documents, Pictures, Music, Games. I use none of these folders for anything. The Pictures and Music folders are completely empty; Games is just Games Explorer, a totally worthless application that attempts to list all games you own. It would only be of any use whatsoever if you only own full-version games that were released in the last year or two -- I checked it just now, and it's got six rows of seven icons. Including all the games that come built in to Windows. It combines demos and full versions without telling you which ones are demos. When you have a substantial number of demos installed, as I do, this is a huge problem. It puts them all in one list instead of categorizing in folders. It only lists things that IT detects... so while it will find some older games (it does recognize that I have Baldur's Gate I and Starcraft installed, for instance) plenty more go unnoticed. Really, why the heck does this thing even exist...
-the impenetrable maze of folders they bury things in, making it incredibly hard to actually find files on your hard drive -- XP really started this trend, and Vista is even worse... I like being able to actually find things, and MS REALLY doesn't want you to do that with any files connected to Windows. Blah.
-I want things to save all of their data files IN THEIR DIRECTORY! Why the HECK do some games create their save-game folders in the Documents directory, or their screenshots in the Pictures directory... that's so stupid, and makes finding those files hard (so you can move those screenshots to your folder for that game in your screenshot folder, for instance)... there's really no reasonable explanation for this. How is separating and hiding both the data and user files helpful in any way?
-The sidebar in the Start Menu. First it's got links to your personal folders -- AccountName (bbf), Documents, Pictures, Music, Games. I use none of these folders for anything. The Pictures and Music folders are completely empty; Games is just Games Explorer, a totally worthless application that attempts to list all games you own. It would only be of any use whatsoever if you only own full-version games that were released in the last year or two -- I checked it just now, and it's got six rows of seven icons. Including all the games that come built in to Windows. It combines demos and full versions without telling you which ones are demos. When you have a substantial number of demos installed, as I do, this is a huge problem. It puts them all in one list instead of categorizing in folders. It only lists things that IT detects... so while it will find some older games (it does recognize that I have Baldur's Gate I and Starcraft installed, for instance) plenty more go unnoticed. Really, why the heck does this thing even exist...
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