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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by David Fearon
Windows Vista in helpful message shocker!
I’m not the world’s biggest Vista fan. I don’t have it on my desktop machines, but I do on my laptops since even I’ll admit its suspend & resume is far more reliable than XP’s (or Ubuntu’s, or Fedora’s for that matter). One of the things I truly hate about it though, is the networking configuration interface. It never fails to lead me round in circles no matter how much I use it. It’s like a maze with moving walls and it gives me the willies.
So imagine my surprise today when it actually did something useful.
Check out the third suggestion in the screenshot. Vista knew my router needed rebooting, and it even told me how to do it! So I followed its advice and took a quick trip round the back of sofa to give my Belkin a kick. Even more astonishing is the fact that it actually solved the problem.
I. Am. Impressed.
Admittedly I’m less impressed that the laptop has started freezing for ten seconds at a time after it sprang a pile of automatic updates on me when I rebooted this morning (cue ten-minute wait to use my own computer), but you have to grab your little rays of sunshine when you can.
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May 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
So Windows Vista basically asked if you had “tried switching it on and off again?”…. how insightful!
May 29th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Most people don’t think about the router or resetting it when try and get online. Had that with a remote user last week.
This is a good thing for Joe Public
May 29th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
The German version of Vista is even more amazing. C’T magazine ran an article on all the big mistakes the team of Apes in Redmond made when writing the translations (they did it in the USA this time, instead of getting the German office to do, like the did with XP).
One of the best was the Network Manager offering to “Adjust the attitudes of your neighbours.”
Not sure exactly how the Network Manager is going to do it (baseball bat?), but it certainly sounds like an impressive feature!
May 30th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Hoorah, Vista can get a job as an IT consultant in a submarine!
July 29th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
BAD mr Fearon! BAD I say! … you haven’t renamed your live network connection to “this one is live” or “rest of planet”, and therefore I betcha haven’t explicitly disabled LAN Connection 1 or any others (like Firewire..) either, which does all sorts of weird things to Browse mastering in small networks. Since they haven’t bothered to put errors relating to this in any earlier versions of windows, I’m not shocked to find there are none in Vista either…
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