Anyone sussed out windows vista...? Please help....

[JonnyP]

Can anyone tell me how to move photo's on vista....? I take the card from the camera and plug it into the pooter, first I have trouble getting the photo's transfered and deleted off the card, but I have found ways of doing that, even though its going round the houses compared to XP..Photo's are now in the photo's folder that XP called "my photo's". I then would of named the photo and put it in the right subfolder (birds in the bird folder, plants in plants etc..). Trouble is I cannot find how to do this....On XP you could highlight the photo and on the left hand side select 'move', then move it to the chosen location...Can't find anything like this on vista...Even right clicking on the photo doesn't help.... I now have loads of photo's that need sorting.....
Anyone wanting a new pooter, be afraid, be very afraid....Please bring back XP, microsoft...
Can I get XP on a pooter running vista..?

 

[Chris G]

"Drag and drop". Click on the file name holding down the mouse button and drag it over to the file you want it in, then release the button. Works on this PC (vista).

Long live XP/NT!!

Chris

 

[JonnyP]

"Drag and drop". Click on the file name holding down the mouse button and drag it over to the file you want it in, then release the button. Works on this PC (vista).

Long live XP/NT!!

Chris

Thanks Chris...I have considered drag and drop, but that means opening up 2 windows and restoring them both down and adjusting them into the right positions....Surely microsoft in all there wisdom arn't going backwards, are they..? Why can't a simple task like moving a photo be done in one window...Sorry to rant.....

 

[Salix]

I hate Vista, it's making my life a misery........................................ :tapedshut

 

[Chris G]

Vista at home and XP at work.

I'm sure that D&D works on one screen in Vista. Will check tonight.

 

[mace242]

This all depends on if you are viewing the pictures in the new "Windows Photo Gallery". The photo gallery is a bit of a confusing thing. You can preview pictures in the Photo Gallery but they are not actually in your photo collection. This is usually done by selecting the "View Pictures Using Windows" when you insert the card or connect the camera via usb. You can add these pictures to your photo collection by clicking on the "Import To gallery" button in the top left of the Windows Photo Gallery preview screen. You can then use the full Windows Photo Gallery (get to this by Start button, All Programs, Windows PhotoGallery) to categorise and organise them. This is the new way of doing things under Visa. What is does is remove the idea that organising photos is all about putting them different folders. It adds the idea of tags - you can take a picture of a butterfly that you took on holiday and tag it with "wildlife, butterfly, holiday", etc.

The old way can still be done. All you have to do is totally avoid the Windows Photo Gallery and view the contents of the camera or memory card in explorer and cut / copy and paste like you normally would.

Anybody want a tutorial on using vista and the windows photo gallery posted, with pictures, etc?

 

[pumbaa]

Be cautious with vista , that popular computer world place sells all their pc's with vista on it now . Problem is , half of them dont have enough memory to run vista properly !!!
Pumbaa

 

[buckley]

Had vista for three days now, still getting to grips with all the differences! But I remember feeling the same when I upgraded to XP for 98 some years ago.

Loving my new PC though Its a monster!

John you could always re-install XP if your really not getting on with vista? I am as yet undecided as to which I prefer, I am amazed by how much memory it eats up.

Thanks for the advice mace, as I was was having the same problem as John.

 

[mace242]

Agreed. 1Gb is the bare minimum for sensibly running Vista. I would say that 2Gb is the level that it gets nice to use at. Saying that I have a range of pcs running between 512mb and 2gb on vista and you can get 512mb to work if you turn pretty much everything off.

I have been asked recently if Vista is a wise choice for a new PC. And until I can judge what Vista SP1 does I'm recommending that if you can get it then get XP. Though I do really like Vista.

As a guide I have a range of PCs running everything from XP Home through Ubuntu and Vista (Home Premuim and Ultimate) and a soon to be up and running again (I broke it once) Home Server Beta (now I'm showing off - I'm a Microsoft Home Server Beta Tester) and out of all of these I rate XP as the best home user OS. I don't think that, even Ubuntu, Linux is good enough for most home users and though I really love it OsX will eventually not run some bit of software you need to. I digress, though.

If you can get it - have XP on your new PC.

 

[Nat]

To be blunt - drop Vista like a rabid bunny. Cut and paste should work for shifting your photos.

 

[buckley]

I am running at 4gb, and I still am not that impressed with vista. Think I am going to stick XP back on friday!

The only positive I have found is that it looks and feels a little nicer than XP? I would be interested to here Microsofts speil behind vista, and what the main selling points where?

5 years in development, sounds like another Ray Mears Woodsman's shirt to me!

 

[mace242]

I am running at 4gb, and I still am not that impressed with vista. Think I am going to stick XP back on friday!

The only positive I have found is that it looks and feels a little nicer than XP? I would be interested to here Microsofts speil behind vista, and what the main selling points where?

5 years in development, sounds like another Ray Mears Woodsman's shirt to me!

Don't forget that XP doesn't really know how to use 4gb properly and you'll certainly need sp2. There's a thing properly done in Vista - though it's certainly not worth the price for that alone.

 

[dwardo]

First thing you need to get Vista working properly is to start with a copy of XP and the rest is easy,, seriously i havent seen an OS so buggy since ME and thats saying something.

Pretty much all of the main manufacturers have stopped shipping machines with it by default and some are offering it at half price.

Save yer self a lot of grief matey and bite the bullet, format and reinstall XP

 

[buckley]

True that was my concern, I have XP PRO SP2 on standby. Due to the RAM issue you mentioned, would you advise soldering on with vista?

Sorry for all the tech questions on a bushcraft forum, this will be the last one I promise

 

[gregorach]

I would be interested to here Microsofts speil behind vista, and what the main selling points where?

Well, it's got a really flash new UI that looks kinda like Mac OSX... It's at least theoretically more secure, as you don't usually log on as Admin by default. And, err, ummm..... that's about it.

Oh, and it comes in about 16 different editions, so no-one knows which one they want and ends up spending more cash than they need to! I'm pretty sure that's a major feature from the MS point-of-view... And its system requirements are so absurd that it should be able to bring even the highest-specced new machine to its knees with the right configuration...

It was supposed to have all the really cool stuff that was originally supposed to be in Win2K (like the database file system they've been talking about for years) ... But it doesn't.

 

[JonnyP]

Good info, cheers guys....Gonna go back to XP, (cheers you know who) before the pooter gets too loaded up with stuff and makes it a nightmare to do..
So if vista uses loads of memory, will this pooter (amd 64 athlon x2, 1.7 gig, 1 gig memory) run loads faster going back to XP....?

 

[GreenmanBushcraft]

I just got Vista hope its not as bad as I keep hearing!

Kris

 

[mace242]

Good info, cheers guys....Gonna go back to XP, (cheers you know who) before the pooter gets too loaded up with stuff and makes it a nightmare to do..
So if vista uses loads of memory, will this pooter (amd 64 athlon x2, 1.7 gig, 1 gig memory) run loads faster going back to XP....?

That's a good spec for xp and a low end to mid range spec for vista IMO. You may get a better vista experience if you up the ram.

 

[mace242]

I just got Vista hope its not as bad as I keep hearing!

Kris

I use it on my two main pcs (work and home) and find that it's just fine. Though I am the sort that checks all the time for the latest drivers, etc.

You may struggle though, as often the screen gets obliterated by large patches of primary colours and you are just left simply guessing what to do...

 

[JonnyP]

That's a good spec for xp and a low end to mid range spec for vista IMO. You may get a better vista experience if you up the ram.

Not having any problems speed wise....I have just used the search facility for the first time, it is superb....
Still going back to xp though...