Anyone using Vista Business? Have you had to make many changes to improve performance? I have been advised to search the internet and disable many features of Vista Business. Some simple things like running programs, copying files are not that simple when Vista Business continues to ask for administrator permission. It is not a network it is a single user machine. Who thinks up this garbage?
I don't use Business; I've got Home Premium. Not much major functional difference between the lot, however, except for perhaps Basic. (Mostly specific functionality is what divides each version).
There's quite a few things you can tweak to run Vista a little better, especially if you are using it for something more than your run-of-the-mill lay person's computer, e.g. software development. Apart from the usual show all hidden files and file extensions, turning off that administrator thing is not a bad idea (it's called User Access Control. It's supposed to mimic the security like system on Unix - i.e. on Unix normally you can't do things that a
root can do unless you log on as
root or you use the
sudo command. Vista: good idea, horrid implementation.) Just make sure that you, of course, are a full administrator rights user.
Also, if you're not a fashion freak as such, you could turn off all the glassy effects etc. and possibly regain a bit of memory.
Apart from that, Vista seems to work for me just fine. XP never gave me many gripes either, mind you. 98 was good at the time but in retrospect now it was crash palace and I'm glad to be rid of it. (Let's not start with ME...*shudder* I never had to go through that personally...) The problems with Vista start rearing with legacy hardware and some old software (which may not be so "old", but certainly DOS based programs may start to bring on a hullaballoo).
Especially with some of the pundits out there calling Vista the new ME.
