CodeGear’s Barry Kelly has a well-explained list of Vista shell annoyances. I don’t dislike Vista as much as Kelly but these things annoy me too, with the exception of the Start menu which I prefer in its Vista guise. Kelly doesn’t like the way Vista constrains it to a scrolling panel, but I find the search box more than compensates, and I dislike the way the XP Start menu expands all over the screen and gives up when it runs out of room.
He includes a handy tip about how to get a direct shortcut to the Network Connections control panel applet.
There’s an interesting point about menus in Vista applets:
It has become fashionable for applications designed for Vista to hide menu bars. Unfortunately, they usually haven’t been replaced by a viable alternative.
In every case I can think of – for example, Internet Explorer, Explorer, Media Player – I’ve enabled the traditional menus, even though they are hidden by default.
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Just curious – is there a reason you’re calling me by my surname?
Or have I become Scoble-like in some way?
Barry,
It’s just the style I use. Nothing to do with Scoble
Tim
Barry, Tim
Forget about vista menus.
Once you get used to http://www.launchy.net/ , you will never use the vista or xp menu again.
btw, great blog!
It dosen’t matters that barry likes this or kelly likes!!!
Thats just your sytle!!! That which one is comfortable for you!!
I completely agree with Kelly’s comment. I would highly prefer XP than Vista because I think it is more user-friendly.