{"id":837,"date":"2008-08-25T11:40:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T10:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/837-vista-shell-annoyances.html"},"modified":"2008-08-25T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T10:40:47","slug":"vista-shell-annoyances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/837-vista-shell-annoyances.html","title":{"rendered":"Vista shell annoyances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CodeGear\u2019s Barry Kelly has a well-explained <a href=\"http:\/\/barrkel.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/venting-on-vista.html\">list of Vista shell annoyances<\/a>. I don\u2019t 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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>He includes a handy tip about how to get a direct shortcut to the Network Connections control panel applet.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an interesting point about menus in Vista applets:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It has become fashionable for applications designed for Vista to hide menu bars. Unfortunately, they usually <b>haven&#8217;t been replaced<\/b> by a viable alternative.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In every case I can think of \u2013 for example, Internet Explorer, Explorer, Media Player \u2013 I\u2019ve enabled the traditional menus, even though they are hidden by default.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6adc1099-bc09-44e0-ac25-042e1234a95f\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/vista\" rel=\"tag\">vista<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/shell\" rel=\"tag\">shell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/usability\" rel=\"tag\">usability<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CodeGear\u2019s Barry Kelly has a well-explained list of Vista shell annoyances. I don\u2019t 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\u2019t like the way Vista constrains it to a scrolling panel, but I find the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/837-vista-shell-annoyances.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vista shell annoyances<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,93,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-vista","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}