Vista is Killing My Productivity
I've been using Vista for several months now. I thought I'd give it a try because I resisted XP for a long time, but I quite liked XP once I started using it. I thought it would be the same story with Vista. But there's one thing that's killing my productivity and turning my habitual zen-like calm into apoplectic fury.
Folder View.
I spend a lot of time working with files. I thought everyone did. Well, every time I try to open, save or otherwise interact with the file system, I have those files displayed to me in some god-awful random fashion, contrived to cause me the most frustration.
Sometimes I get giant icons, too big to view many in a small 'file open' dialog. Sometimes I get the files in two, or three columns, alphabetized horizontally! Sometimes I get a list of artists, ratings and genres. I nearly never get what I need - Filename, Size, Date modified. In other words 'Details View'. Always. You keep the rest of all that other nonsense until i ask for it.
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Don't say it. 'Apply to Folders' doesn't work. 'Reset Folders' doesn't work. 'Apply this template to all subfolders' doesn't work. Hacking the registry doesn't do it. And I don't want to. I use Windows because I hate configuration. I don't want to spend an hour hacking the registry to view my files the way I've viewed them for the last 15 years.
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I'm annoyed enough about this to rant about it online and completely blow the cool, calm, collected persona that I've been cultivating. That's frustration. Microsoft! Fix this.
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Went through it. Cried about it. Lost a ton of productivity along the way. I've just given up. I particularly love the way it goes dim when it's "thinking" and I can't interact with the application.
Posted by: diamondTearz at July 8, 2008 09:45 PM
Good Post. This is indeed very annoying. You would think they would have fixed this in SP1 - guess we have to wait another year...
Posted by: felix at July 9, 2008 12:37 AM
Spot on. One of the main reasons I won't touch Vista. Whether it's fixed in Windows 7, I'm not sure yet. I doubt it...
Posted by: aehalpin at June 25, 2009 10:56 AM
