Vista 5536 Pre RC-1
Microsoft have rolled out Vista 5536. Its a good build with a lot of potential but there are some REALLY annoying things going on which are turning me off very quickly.
1. Playing video and then doing something which requires an admin confirmation resets the aero interface to the plain and boring one.
2. Everytime I full screen moving video in Media Player 11 the sync goes completely, by seconds. Its rubbish.
3. Whats the deal with the specifying of headphones or speakers and things not playing sound..? I had to specifically set the headphones to the default device before they would play through them - then switch it back to play via speakers. Rubbish.
4. Wireless network discovery isnt great and the general wireless ease of use is poor.
5. I dont want to start on how much I hate the interface for Media Centre. It does not work, full stop.
6. The system seems to really slow down after video use. Dragging windows is slow.
7. I had three processes “control.exe” which were 100% use on the CPU. There was nothing amazing running.
8. Battery consumption was gigantic! Also, and I dont know if this is true, but my laptop was SO hot when running vista -my assumption is the graphics card was going nuts.
9. When you RDC to vista from another machine and log back into the vista box the sidebar has gone.
10. Network file transfer times are laughable. INitial prediction on a 1gig movement is 30 minutes which after 2 minutes comes down to 3 minutes..
Control.exe (The Control Panel) now looks screwed. Running this eats the CPU at 50% and never stops. It’s also managed to kill the aero interface completely and I cant revive it. Complete shutdown doesnt resolve the issue.
I’ve also had major issues with copying files over wireless. Im currently getting little progress on transferring 300 megs from one PC over to another. The copying dialogue refuses to come up and its reporting 2 hours and 31 minutes in the task bar. This kind of basic thing is really important to making users feel confident - currently im hovering in the middle as I do like some of the features but it isnt good.
Add comment August 30th, 2006