Saturday, July 28, 2007
Windows Woes
Ed Bott writes for Zdnet about all things Microsoft and while he appears to be an avid Windows user he generally writes in a thoughtful manner and is not afraid to highlight problems with his operating system of choice.
I have just finished reading entry number 17 in his Vista Hands On series where he discusses a fix to a Windows Vista resource problem. A couple of things in the article caught my attention.
First, he has a fix for the issue that involves editing the registry. He includes a suitable warning about the dangers of editing the registry manually and the potential havoc it can wreak on a the unsuspecting novice. It worries me when I see problems that require a manual change to the register to fix them. Many users are not equipped to make such changes.
Second, he notes that this issue is not a new one:
The problem, as it turns out, is as old as the Windows NT family. I’ve found references to this issue that date back to the mid-1990s and Windows NT 3.1 and 3.5. The fix for Vista, just as for those much older versions of Windows, involves editing a key in the Windows Registry.
A problem in the shiny new Vista that has been around since the mid 1990’s? One would think that a brand new operating system would inherit such problems. Maybe it’s not as “new” as we are told.
“You can’t coach that”
