At the moment I am running Windows Vista Beta 2 build 5384 along with Office Beta 2 and all I can say is that Microsoft has quite a bit of work left to do before this product should be released. I am trying to do a simple search for Excel Spreadsheets on my machine and it is take a good 20-30 minutes for the machine to complete this task. I have 2GB of RAM in a machine that is running at 2.4 GHz which should be sufficient to run Vista. I am watching the explorer.exe in Process Explorer from Sysinternals http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html and it is consistently sitting at 80% or higher for the CPU utilization. As the search goes on I can see the SearchFilterHost.exe and SearchProtocolHost.exe run and turn off as well as verclsid.exe which runs under the Explorer.exe process tree. It appears that the search capabilities that are built in work but are dependent on something that is really slowing my machine down. This really needs to be fixed as soon as possible because this is the reason I have flushed the build every time I have loaded it onto my laptop. I may try and see if Office has something to do with this issue or if it is dependant on the present Vista Build. I do realize that this is consider the Ultimate build and that everything but the kitchen sink is in this build but the speed that Vista has reduced my machine to is something that is unacceptable. I will load the same Vista build 5384 and load Office 2003 to see if I have the same problem. All I can say is that this performance currently is enough for me to start taking a look at alternative Operating systems. There is no way that any other OS is this slow in operation. I would really like to see just a Professional Build of Vista and not this Ultimate crap, because that is just what it is currently.
I consider myself more than a typical user and when I loaded Vista for like the 4th time hoping that there was the ability to control somethings I have been dissappointed yet again. The UI in Vista is actually very nice and much of the information that given is very good. This damn User Account Control is about the most annoying thing I have ever seen in an operating system. I can delete a file without telling this User Account Control (UAC) that I want to delete the file. More confirmation on deletion of files. I can understand having this feature in the Operating system but I hope that there is some way to disable or stop this program otherwise you can be sure that Vista is not something I want to adopt. That is a step back for advanced users.
To date I have tried removing it from the registry, changing the local security policy as well as going into the Control Panel and under User settings and actually turn UAC off. When it does finally get turned off a lovely "Windows Security Alert" pops up in the bottom of the computer in the start bar. It tells me I am at rick and that I should turn it back on. Well I say F*)( off with turning it back on and same goes for the damn alert I get from Vista. If I cant turn this crap off what is the use of this OS?
I just want to remove this Damn enhancement and not have to deal with it. My mother might like it as well as the security experts, but all I can say is that if I can get rid of it I will find a new Operating system. I am sure I am not the only person to think this way and it will only get worse. The thing that made PC's cool back in the day was the ability to customize everything if you choose to. Microsoft is making the OS pretty and functional out of the box, but the advanced user is going to move on from this OS for the simple fact that customization has become so hard and Microsoft is now making my decisions for me. Vista is looking like a Mac more and more, Please tell me its not so. I think that most Mac people are full of the same stuff they try to shovel when they talk about how great their Mac is. Mac users are drones stuck in a glass jar and unable to change a huge amount. The gaming field is always changing with some OS's and the in others the field is set. Mac is set and Vista is going to be set as well from what I can see. I know that I am putting Microsoft in a Damned if you do and Damned if you dont situation, but why cant the OS allow me to turn something off at the Registry level or the local security policy level and the change just goes into effect and does not tell me that I am might be a risk.
If I want to do something stupid and then have to rebuild my box because that change I made last crashed the system fine let me do it. If Microsoft wants to continue to get people to adopt their Operating Systems customization needs to be a part of it. When I turn something off I dont need a damn security alert coming up permanently on my machine I just want the machine to do what I want it to do.