Piling on Vista

[Lemur]

Last weekend I finished cleaning up my second Vista laptop. This is payback to some dads with woodworking skills who helped me build a play fort for my kids.

Anyway, I just wanted to say I hate Vista. What a bloated, tottering blight of an operating system. One laptop took close to nine minutes from power-on to being usable. What the hell is that about? What, exactly, is MS loading into memory for all that time? And the UAC thing is just laughable. Does anyone not turn it off?

One more irritation I must rant about. What the heck is HP thinking, shipping hardware with a hundred little custom bits of bloatware clinging to their laptops like barnacles on a tanker? I forget the name, but there was one little piece of junk that wouldn't shut off even after I'd shut off its service in services.msc and told it to stop loading at startup in msconfig. I had to uninstall the app, and I wasn't sure even that would work, given how tenacious it was about hogging processor cycles and memory.

Anyway. Sorry. Excuse me. I just needed to rant. Cleaning up a neighbor's Vista machine makes me want to smoke crack and set my hair on fire.