Hmmmm... I actually like Vista.

[Simplicity]

To my knowledge, this is a feature of Windows Defender, even under XP.

I never even noticed that Windows Defender was available for XP. Interesting...
It annoys me some that I can't just get Process Explorer WITH my operating system.
MS fears that too much info will make people blow up.

I may be thinking of something else, but I think I've seen what you're referring to here in XP.

It was available in XP. But it was pretty much totally unusable if you ever wanted to install programs. UAC provides a quick way to retroactively "sudo" to the admin account when you actually have some idea of what you are doing. It's still required far too often, but much of that is due to old applications not supporting the new security scheme well.

It's not comforting when MS comes out with statements saying that UAC isn't considered a security boundary. But okay... It's better than what XP had.

 

[Jdvn1]

I never even noticed that Windows Defender was available for XP. Interesting...

It's relatively new (it came out during the Beta release of Vista, or something).

It annoys me some that I can't just get Process Explorer WITH my operating system.
MS fears that too much info will make people blow up.

Yeah, this is an annoying 'feature' of even business versions of XP/etc. I never understood that. You'd think there'd be a toggleable feature somewhere for more powerful users.

It was available in XP. But it was pretty much totally unusable if you ever wanted to install programs. UAC provides a quick way to retroactively "sudo" to the admin account when you actually have some idea of what you are doing. It's still required far too often, but much of that is due to old applications not supporting the new security scheme well.

That is true intalling programs could be a pain. It's nice to know they're looking for solutions!

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Oh! Me! Me! Actually, I'm more likely to select the file and hit F2, but I very rarely right-click/rename. Dunno why, just habit.

Freak

 

[DethStryke]

Freak

lol I do the same thing (with using F2) but it's because I move through the files with my arrow keys. From learning in DOS and my C64, I feel more comfortable navigating some stuff with just the keyboard (tabbing through fields, files, the desktop, etc.).

I'm also a fan of the slightly delayed double-click for renaming. I almost never actually use the right click menu for rename.

 

[Ranger REG]

Huh.
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Parental controls. Wow. If I wanted utter dominion over my child's computer life... this pretty much would be the way to do it. What types of games can they play? When? For how long? Want a report of their websites? Want a complete log of their IMing? Want to see what media they watched? Blech.

Man, you have never watched Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator, have you?

 

[Simplicity]

Man, you have never watched Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator, have you?

Yeah, that's just what I need. More crazy media coverage to scare me about the world.

 

[Thanee]

That behavior is unchanged from XP, etc. In other words, the default setting is to hide extensions for known types, and it does not show the extension when renaming. I had to check, though, because one of the first things I do on any new PC is change that setting.

Well, they can't get everything right...

I actually like the hidden extensions, but in some occasions they are pretty annoying.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Ranger REG]

Yeah, that's just what I need. More crazy media coverage to scare me about the world.

You mean the world is not scary? No, really, convince me.

 

[borc killer]

Well, they can't get everything right...

I actually like the hidden extensions, but in some occasions they are pretty annoying.

Bye
Thanee

Yea... anyone know if there is some way to toggle it on or off? I would love to be able to hold down Alt+F3 or something like that to display all file extensions... I don’t want it on all the time but sometimes it is a life saver and I hate enabling it… because I always forget to disable it.
As to the comment about Vista being ready for prime time… I would say if the Admins are ready, the users are ready, and the other software they use is ready then Vista is ready. I would not deploy it one day earlier.

 

[Simplicity]

You mean the world is not scary? No, really, convince me.

Okay. In 2005 in the US, for every 1000 people over the age of 12, there was 1 rape or sexual assault, 1 assault with injury, and 3 robberies. Murders are about 6 per 100,000. (Source: US Dept. of Justice).http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvictgen.htm

So the odds of you or your teenage kid being a crime victim are 1/200 each year. It's actually more likely for a kid to be in a crime than an older person... but there's other factors involved too... Do you live in the projects? Okay. The world is significantly scarier then. If you don't live in a terrible neighborhood, well then your chances are improved significantly.

Other more likely things to happen to you:
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The odds that you'll kill YOURSELF in a given year are about 1/9238. http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm. So you're much more likely to kill yourself than to get murdered. They do say it's always someone you know... (I was always such a quiet myself).

1/5 people die of heart disease.
1/7 from cancer.
1/24 from stroke.