My XP start menu back...   

..and a Pony   

That whatever MS decides to do, that they get it right.   

A decent boot screen would be a good start almost went back to my copy of xp pro but then it would mean me explaining to the girlfriend why I paid £130.00 for vista ultimate just to rip it out of my machine and many times I felt like doing just that.

Registry tweaks for "Copy to" and Move to" for Vista can be found here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-copy-to-move-to-on-windows-vista-right-click-menu/

I would like for a window to retain the same layout every time. If I want my Game Explorer window to have large icons in a certain size window, I would like it to save that setting and open that way the next time. As is, I could have a detail list the next time or whatever random setting it chooses.
I would also like to see a UAC that allowed me to do something simple, like create a save game in Doom3. Make that a part of a UAC safe list. As UAC is, it's best turned off if you a power user. I would like to see it fixed, as it is a great idea, just badly implemented in its current state.

man every single one of these problems mentioed i have had with Vista Home Premium and also i'm not a techie but my ram is at a range between 800mb and 1g of memrory usage constantly and has never changed even after i added programs....but i have a machine with pretty much the same specs except for the processors and the XP PRO machine is running at like 300mb to 450mb of memory usage......why in the hell does it use so much? is that normal for Vista? i am having such a hard time likeing vista also because of constant lock ups and no i dont have spyware or malware or blocked up registry or a trashed up computer....its 3 months old....i have to constantly hard reboot if i watch a movie or do anything remotly strenuous on it ie...copying also...can someone here tell me if that kind of memory usage is normal please???

Would also be better in terms of weaponry....had the gun not gotten lots of takers, wars might have still been fought with spears (not the Britney variety) and bows n' arrows ....maybe a bit of stone throwing instead of cannon-fire.

Spot on, Kona, not all (supposed) progress is wanted, needed or even wise.

Well said!

I'd like a fix for early versions of Outlook not retaining passwords...

Something else I'd like to see a fix for: that Vista retains its Restore points when dual booting between one OS and the other. At present, if you boot into XP and back, you lose all your restore points....would also be better if Vista's restore interface was similar to XP's, the current list isn't very functional or informative.

Why was I in System Restore on such a stable OS (for all those Vista haters who just gotta ask/know), I installed some software for my new soundcard and something cocked up ....a sys restore just seemed quicker and easier than messing about with uninstalls and registry cleaning, etc.

man every single one of these problems mentioed i have had with Vista Home Premium and also i'm not a techie but my ram is at a range between 800mb and 1g of memrory usage constantly and has never changed even after i added programs....but i have a machine with pretty much the same specs except for the processors and the XP PRO machine is running at like 300mb to 450mb of memory usage......why in the hell does it use so much? is that normal for Vista? i am having such a hard time likeing vista also because of constant lock ups and no i dont have spyware or malware or blocked up registry or a trashed up computer....its 3 months old....i have to constantly hard reboot if i watch a movie or do anything remotly strenuous on it ie...copying also...can someone here tell me if that kind of memory usage is normal please???



Please help, any suggestions or is this normal?

Joe

I'm still seeing some pretty good suggestions, aside from the global warmning myth comments and the anti-Vista nonsense we come to expect in a Vista thread.

I would like a larger icon cache size without a third party program. I would like to be able to turn off the message, (your search my take a couple billion years because indexing is turned off).

The start button to not to say start, umm Duh!. Actual support for 64 bit. balloon tips to have a clear vista like background.

Have vista tell applications the right amount of my graphics cards memory or I think thats direct x not sure. Oh I'm in for the windows staying where I put them.

Better game support for dx9 I should be able to control space satellites with my rig and no way in hell I'm gonna shell out another grand for graphics cards so I can play dx 10.

Windows mail to start a hell of allot faster than it does, what the heck is it doing anyways.

Fix the damn Icon size thing, drives me nuts, big icons little icons sheesh! Make it easier to hide updates at the update place, My god how many language packs does a person need.

Have a message from Bill Gates appear saying thanks for battling with this OS to get your toys to run, I'm getting good at it now-tweak,tweak.

Have the bloody defrag thing at least show me that it's doing something while I'm sitting there staring at it.

Make windows defender actually defend. Fix internet options delete all, and it does but not really because it keeps it in a .dat or .index file, what am I to do if my wife gets computer savvy? oh and you can't delete it without the aid of a nuclear program.

Get rid of the user experience thing they don't care or want to know what my user experience has been.

Fix when I need help and a window pops up it saying it can help me with my problem and takes me to a webpage that says does not exist, never existed, or never will exist.

I want a fix for the shortcuts that won't delete after you have uninstalled a program. I have had to reinstall programs again so I could delete the icon or else vista tells me the program is not responding, Hello it's not on the pc anymore so let me delete it!

Allow me the right to get rid of that file in my temp folder that never deletes and says it's in use, really by whom it's temporary isn't it?

Oops did I say that out loud? These are minor things I would like to have fixed in Sp1.

Later,