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Apr 01, 2009
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Throw Away Society
by: Frank

Hi Anonymous,

If it is true that Vista keeps a shadow on the hard drive of everything that's deleted, how can a user know how much space there is left on the drive and when to clean up?
You are still using the monster. How can you tell?
I am aware that today's drives are of unthought capacity, but wouldn't that be extremely stupid, even for a vista developer? (Unless it is deliberate.)

You are right in your statement that, the information is there, on the net somewhere, but seldom, in my experience anyway, to be found where you would expect it to be found. Support is strictly defined and anything out of the ordinary is not supported.

The Sony Vaio support page for instance, was so carefully and skilfully hidden that it cost me 1.5 hours to find my way onto the support's computer screen, and the reason is that support costs money and generates none.
(The answer to my query from the sony support gentleman was that sony never tested XP on a Vaio vista model. HOW CAN A COMPANY LIKE SONY NOT TEST THAT??!?)

Buy the product and choke on it is the general idea. Never has the term 'customer service' been such a contradiction in terms as these days.
I worked as a support agent myself for a while, and I knew NOTHING of computers when I started. That's the quality of support you can expect from present day 1st line helpdeskers. The company doesn't pay enough for real IT'ers.

Trying to educate yourself computerwise is like trying to build a house with pebbles. (Not the Flintstones wench, the roundish rocky things...)

A definite sign of the times and our increasingly 'throw away society'.

What am I still doing on this vista page!? I hate vista!!

Good luck with the dragon Anonymous,

Frank.

Mar 27, 2009
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XP - Vista
by: Anonymous

I was interested in your experience with deleting items form your hard drive.
My laptop has always been vista and although I havent had any real problems (apart from all the things you mention)I prefer XP. Anyway I was puzzled why my hard drive kept growing when I deleted what I did'nt need anymore and eventually realized that Vista keeps a shadow on the hard drive of everything thats deleted so when you delete something you may gain very little.
Strange how you buy a car and expext it to be uptodate and in working order even if all you know about cars is how to drive them yet with microsoft you have to be a geek and spend hours or days finding out why it doesn't work.
I spent �100 plus on the vista upgrade only to spend 6 days finding out that it couldn't work (and neither did countless others on the web) until I downloaded another program which they don't tell you about when you buy the pack.
The info is usually there somewhere but it shouldn't be so hard to find. A Pc should be plug and play just like anything else and if it doesn't work from new through no fault of yours it should be down to the seller. Try getting any sense from microsoft. None of the diagnostics in Vista ever come up with any answers. You get messages saying that "windows is looking for a solution" but it never gives you one.

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