Installation
The installation went smooth, no problems here. The only weird thing is that its released 2 days ago, and already had a dozen security patches to download right after installation. This per se does not piss me off yet - a windows user is, well, used to patch every second day.
First boot
Ah, okay, here it is. Oh my .. lots of colors... and useless special fx on the windows.. okay. A Sidebar, oh! Finally, 12 years after a sidebar was already implemented in MacOS, as well as AmigaOS. Too bad there is just useful crap coming with it (Why would i want a HUGE part of the screen showing me a clock, and a calender sheet). Good - lets configure this to look more like an OS than a playground for 3 year olds. Switch to classic start menu and classic windows style - better. Eh - why do i have to accept every little change i make at least twice? The user is a goddamn administrator!
Working with it
Right after boot, this OS eats up about 550MB of RAM. I wonder what for - i can not find any usefull things running, besides about two dozens of services that appear to be on by default, even tho majority of the people out there will never need them. Well, half the RAM of the box is gone. The CPU is used up to 20% (2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo) if you dont use the classic view - i would have guessed the gfx board cares for that, but appearently not. Yay! More CPU cycles wasted for graphical gimmicks that dont have ANY practical use.
NOW it starts to piss me off....
"Wuuuah! Wuuuuah! I want my pacifier!" - this is a user, according to Microsoft. Vista puts you in a baby bed. You know, those jail-like things that keep the baby from crawling around, and doing ANYTHING without parental control. Yes! Windows is your daddy now.
A typical installation of a little program that writes itself into the control panel looks like this: (Dramatization
)Then, i tried installing another program. Knowing the procedere, i clicked "Yes" "Yes" "OK" "I know", while my blood pressure was rising. Yay! It installed. But, too bad: The program wants to write some keys to the registry when started up the first time....User: "I want to execute this Installer."
Vista: "This installer is not signed. Do you know that, my son?"
User: "Yes. Iam aware of that. Execute it."
Vista: "But, son, there is lots of evil in this, our, world. Art thou really sure you want to execute this?"
User: "Just execute it..."
Vista: "Press OK if you are sure to..."
User: "INSTALL IT ALREADY!"
Vista: "Well, i warned you, stupid child...."
* Installer runs, drops his files and registry entries*
Vista: "HO! Evil terrorist program! Thou shalt not writeh into thine computers registry! Son! Do you know what this filthy program tried? It wanted to show up in the control panel!"
User: "I know. Its okay."
Vista: "You can not just have every stranger you picked up at a bus station live in the control panel, you know?"
User: "I know this program. Its cool. Accept that it wants to be in the control panel."
Vista: "You will burn in hell. Well, i warned you ..."
Well, next task:Vista: Thou shalt not writeh into thine computers..."
Program: But i need to! I want to just drop this key here in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and...
Vista: Silence! You can not access this registry part!
Program: But.. but.. my user executed me with Administrator rights...
Vista: Oh, poor program - do you really think the user can decide what is right and wrong? I'am the one in control here. Now go die in a corner.
Find out how to get windows to allow a program to write keys into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Iam quite sure i can edit this in the registry somewhere. If iam allowed to.
