Windows Vista Partial List

[ruffilb]

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Deployment/Servicing: Faster Installation: Installations will take 15-20 minutes instead of an hour. Before, Windows would copy each and every file to the hard drive and renaming them, create the registry, insert registry entries one by one, etc. Longhorn's installer works like a ghosting program, it creates a disk-image of what a fully installed system would be and extracts the image onto the drive and that's it. I wouldn't say that this is the great thing since sliced bread despite how fast it is, because there shouldn't be a need to install it more than once

hahah....good one

Anyone who has to routinely reinstall windows is a computer retard.

I'm not saying I routinely reinstall windows...but people DO do the occasional format once Windows begins to get bogged down

I reformat all the time (once every 3 or 4 months)

 

[Chadder007]

I wish they would just totally get rid of the Registry, that was the worst thing they ever implemented for Windows. They need to go back to program specific INI type files.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Deployment/Servicing: Faster Installation: Installations will take 15-20 minutes instead of an hour. Before, Windows would copy each and every file to the hard drive and renaming them, create the registry, insert registry entries one by one, etc. Longhorn's installer works like a ghosting program, it creates a disk-image of what a fully installed system would be and extracts the image onto the drive and that's it. I wouldn't say that this is the great thing since sliced bread despite how fast it is, because there shouldn't be a need to install it more than once

hahah....good one

Anyone who has to routinely reinstall windows is a computer retard.

With Win xp i havent had to reinstall but twice in the time i have had it.

But with 98, Se, ME etc i found reinstalling the OS was teh fastest and easyest way to clear it up. I would do it what seemed like every 6-8 months.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: ruffilb

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Deployment/Servicing: Faster Installation: Installations will take 15-20 minutes instead of an hour. Before, Windows would copy each and every file to the hard drive and renaming them, create the registry, insert registry entries one by one, etc. Longhorn's installer works like a ghosting program, it creates a disk-image of what a fully installed system would be and extracts the image onto the drive and that's it. I wouldn't say that this is the great thing since sliced bread despite how fast it is, because there shouldn't be a need to install it more than once

hahah....good one

Anyone who has to routinely reinstall windows is a computer retard.

I'm not saying I routinely reinstall windows...but people DO do the occasional format once Windows begins to get bogged down

I reformat all the time (once every 3 or 4 months)

Unless you're replacing your motherboard every 3 or 4 months (which with Vista will not require a reinstall), you're a computer retard.

Originally posted by: Chadder007
I wish they would just totally get rid of the Registry, that was the worst thing they ever implemented for Windows. They need to go back to program specific INI type files.

They're trying to. Let me see if I can dig up the articles on it...

 

[SLCentral]

I wanna see a screenie of this new MCE. It looks damn nice as it is, wonder how they'll improve it aesthetically.

 

[neutralizer]

Wow that's one crazy list of features. Makes it sound pretty good actually.

 

[Rock Hydra]

They should go back to the old Windows with cloud background bootup screen. :laugh:

Seriously, though:

Internet Explorer: Tabs
Self-explanatory. The only thing about this that might not be self-explanatory is the "empty tab" at the end of the tab toolbar that essentially removes the need to create a new tab, there will always be one available so you can just switch to it.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Deployment/Servicing: Faster Installation: Installations will take 15-20 minutes instead of an hour. Before, Windows would copy each and every file to the hard drive and renaming them, create the registry, insert registry entries one by one, etc. Longhorn's installer works like a ghosting program, it creates a disk-image of what a fully installed system would be and extracts the image onto the drive and that's it. I wouldn't say that this is the great thing since sliced bread despite how fast it is, because there shouldn't be a need to install it more than once

hahah....good one

Anyone who has to routinely reinstall windows is a computer retard.

With Win xp i havent had to reinstall but twice in the time i have had it.

But with 98, Se, ME etc i found reinstalling the OS was teh fastest and easyest way to clear it up. I would do it what seemed like every 6-8 months.

Yep I don't reinstall XP that often (maybe once a yr to 1.5 yrs b/c I have to clean it up), but the win 9.x family got frequent reinstalls.

Though I would like to be able to easily reinstall when/if I upgrade HDs, for example...right now. Just lost a 160 & I'm gonna plop windows on the new drive when it arrives. I'd like this kind of activity to be hassle free...

 

[ActuaryTm]

It's a shame there isn't a forum just for operating systems.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
what's so great about virtual folders?

If you work with data linking, a lot of paths inevitably get hard coded into files. To keep these paths more permanent, you make them virtual. IE, the path to this data is a mapped drive and a bunch of directories that don't really exist and then the data. Then, when the data inevitably moves, you just update your virtual directories and nothing breaks.

A possible home example: You store all your data all over your C: drive in random folders, but for the sake of an FTP server for easy access, you want to setup a grouping of virtual directories to all the data you share, your pictures, your documents, etc. So you create this virtual directory structure and then point your FTP at that.

Another example: You want to make your data redundant, so you create a virtual directory which points to 2 locations, if location 1 is down, it automatically routes to location 2. Then location 1 and 2 are synchronized on the server side.

 

[shekondar]

Interface: Virtual Folders
You can create virtual folders that behave like file organizers. For example, you could create a virtual folder about "Longhorn" and it will pull ALL of the files related to Longhorn on your computer to that central location for you to easily browse by. Effectively removing the need to stay organized and search for files - Windows Vista knows where all of the files are and helps you find things. This was one of the "killer features" that people thought they lost with the removal of WinFS - it's still here and you won't find it on Linux or Mac.

uhhh...couldn't you do this with soft links??? (not a Linux expert, but this seems like a pretty simple thing to do...)

Interface: Aero
- Aero Diamond (Media Center Edition - Aero Glass on steroids)
- Aero Glass (semi-transparent window borders and toolbars that blur the things behind them)
- Aero Express (toned down version of Aero Glass for slightly slower hardware.)
- Aero To-Go (XP-style interface.)
- Aero Classic (2000-style interface.)

cool - we can go back to the Win2K interface when we're sick of the memory-hogging eye candy

Programming: WinFX
Ties XAML, Avalon, Indigo, and WinFS -when released- together for an extremely easy way to create applications. Programmers currently utilize 72,000 (not a typo!) APIs to create applications for Windows. A lot of the work in Longhorn so far has been to reduce the amount of APIs that programmers have to deal with, and the current number is around 500 APIs (I can't remember the exact number from the top of my head.) This is one of my favorite changes in Longhorn, as someone who likes to write programs in their spare time I know this will allow me to get a lot more done! (thus, it will be cheaper for programmers to create software and they can updated much quicker.)

So...are they adding 500 new APIs, or are they're getting rid of the existing 72,000 APIs and replacing them with the 500 new ones (so none of the software you have now will work)?

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: JohnCU
what's so great about virtual folders?

If you work with data linking, a lot of paths inevitably get hard coded into files. To keep these paths more permanent, you make them virtual. IE, the path to this data is a mapped drive and a bunch of directories that don't really exist and then the data. Then, when the data inevitably moves, you just update your virtual directories and nothing breaks.

A possible home example: You store all your data all over your C: drive in random folders, but for the sake of an FTP server for easy access, you want to setup a grouping of virtual directories to all the data you share, your pictures, your documents, etc. So you create this virtual directory structure and then point your FTP at that.

Another example: You want to make your data redundant, so you create a virtual directory which points to 2 locations, if location 1 is down, it automatically routes to location 2. Then location 1 and 2 are synchronized on the server side.

ah I see, thanks, never heard of virtual folders before.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: JohnCU
what's so great about virtual folders?

If you work with data linking, a lot of paths inevitably get hard coded into files. To keep these paths more permanent, you make them virtual. IE, the path to this data is a mapped drive and a bunch of directories that don't really exist and then the data. Then, when the data inevitably moves, you just update your virtual directories and nothing breaks.

A possible home example: You store all your data all over your C: drive in random folders, but for the sake of an FTP server for easy access, you want to setup a grouping of virtual directories to all the data you share, your pictures, your documents, etc. So you create this virtual directory structure and then point your FTP at that.

Another example: You want to make your data redundant, so you create a virtual directory which points to 2 locations, if location 1 is down, it automatically routes to location 2. Then location 1 and 2 are synchronized on the server side.

ah I see, thanks, never heard of virtual folders before.

In other words a SymLink in Linux
http://learn.clemsonlinux.org/wiki/Symlink

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Deployment/Servicing: Faster Installation: Installations will take 15-20 minutes instead of an hour. Before, Windows would copy each and every file to the hard drive and renaming them, create the registry, insert registry entries one by one, etc. Longhorn's installer works like a ghosting program, it creates a disk-image of what a fully installed system would be and extracts the image onto the drive and that's it. I wouldn't say that this is the great thing since sliced bread despite how fast it is, because there shouldn't be a need to install it more than once

hahah....good one

Anyone who has to routinely reinstall windows is a computer retard.

I'm not saying I routinely reinstall windows...but people DO do the occasional format once Windows begins to get bogged down

Nope, I'm going to have to agree with werk on this one.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: dwell
Cool. They're catching up to OS 10.3!

.. Without releasing a costly update every year!