Windows Vista is an unmitigated disaster
Thursday, March 27th, 2008We are using a new Hewlett Packard machine running Windows Vista. The machine has 3 gigs of RAM - the stuff of science fiction circa 1990. Dual core Athalon processors, 2.6 GHz. The machine is two months old.
I right-click on the Desktop. From the context menu that appears, I choose “New”, then “Folder”. Then I type in the name of the new folder. Then I hit “Enter”.
Explorer becomes unresponsive while it creates the new folder. Counting slowly, I am able to count to 48 before Explorer comes back to life. 48 seconds to create a new folder. On a Mac, circa 1991, using System 7, I recall this same task taking from .5 seconds to maybe 2 seconds when things were bad. On a Unix machine, circa 1980, my guess is that the mkdir command took about .1 seconds to execute.
I am recreating a folder that I just deleted, and perhaps there is some kind of memory of the old folder that is causing problems. Whatever the reason, this is bad programming.
Windows Vista is a unmitigated disaster. No one should buy this product ever. And no company should be legally alowed to sell it.