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<\/p>\nOne of Vista\u2019s most annoying features is the tendency of Explorer to decide, first, that all your documents are music or photos; and second, that if they are, you care more about metadata like \u201cRating\u201d than humdrum details such as the date of the file.<\/p>\n
I had thought that Vista only did this if it found at least one media file in the folder, but today it happened with Control Panel:<\/p>\n
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Notice how it highlights another user-hostile feature: the name of each applet is in a column too narrow to read, and several applets are indistinguishable from each other because they begin \u201cMicrosoft .NET Frame…\u201d or \u201cInternet Information S…\u201d; another triumph of branding over usability.<\/p>\n
What I wanted was the Event Viewer; and while I\u2019m in ranting mode, let me add that I much prefer the old NT Event Viewer to the Vista effort. The new one takes ages to populate a clever multi-pane view, which presents too much information in tiny scrolling panels. In practice I use the tree view on the left to select the log I want, subverting the new design by doing exactly what I would have done in the old Event Viewer. Habit possibly; but there are real design problems with the new Event Viewer. Administrators will always choose practical over pretty.<\/p>\n
See here for my earlier complaint<\/a> about Explorer views and a partial remedy. Why wasn\u2019t this fixed in SP1?<\/p>\n One of Vista\u2019s most annoying features is the tendency of Explorer to decide, first, that all your documents are music or photos; and second, that if they are, you care more about metadata like \u201cRating\u201d than humdrum details such as the date of the file. I had thought that Vista only did this if it … Continue reading Vista even thinks Control Panel is photos<\/span> Technorati tags: vista<\/a>, control panel<\/a>, windows<\/a>, microsoft<\/a>, event viewer<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"