ulyanov77 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 (edited) Hey, I'm posting here mainly because I'm furious and happen to be on this site... Anywho, I've been playing around on my new copy of Vista for a few days now and am absolutely in love with it. I've gotten well used to the security preferences and don't mind them a bit. However, I was just downloading something from Usenet with Grabit as my reader... I haven't checked around the preferences or anything and just got done completely downloading a 4 GB file only to find that the default download folder (...Grabit/download) was nowhere to be found?!? I can only assume this is some bit of Vista's "security" and that I just wasted a ton of my alloted download block for nothing.. I know that I probably should have checked it out while before downloading, but still. Has anyone else had a similar problem? Thanks [/rant] EDIT now this is incredibly strange... when I go in to try and change the default folder to which the files download to, it shows the folder in tact with the files downloaded. only problem is that I can't actually open the folder from this view. for the record I have "Show hidden folders" turned on. EDIT 2 I believe I have to apologize to Vista... I think that this was a problem within Grabit. I only assumed since it always worked flawlessly on XP... in any case, does anyone know what might be a solution? Edited February 23, 2007 by ulyanov77 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 "Deny or Allow?" STFU WINDOWS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Mac has issued a salutation, Cancel or Allow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 allow..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I played with Vista for the first time yesterday - the guys had installed it at work to test our products out on the new OS. OMFG that thing is so damn fugly! And the Windows-Tab thing (the thing which stacks the current windows in 3d) is so totally pointless. Its like they tried to emulate Expose but totally missed the point of what makes it useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
track09 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Like we didn't see this coming in a forum full of Apple fanboys... God damnit, I love Apple, but why are all you others so closed minded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user2 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I like Vista a lot. Media center is amazing and Aero glass is pretty cool too. I remember when Apple went from Os9 to X and tons of people were bitching about the new ugly interface. The security thing has been blown way out of proportion, it can be tuned off really easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailfish Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Mac has issued a salutation... "enter password" - "enter password" - "enter password".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry44 Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 I like Vista, but as shown in the Mac commercial, its security is WAY to good. I was trying to change the time, and it asked me if I wanted to trust the Clock, which was created by Microsoft It also asked me If I wanted to trust the Microsoft Firewall, or if I wanted to block it. I also cant figure out how to get the black quick links bar up on the side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 It doesn't ask you if you want to trust the clock, just if you want to allow it to be changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 It doesn't ask you if you want to trust the clock, just if you want to allow it to be changed. thats still really annoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Why, do you change your clock several times a day ? On XP I don't think I had changed it in > 1½ years and I see no reason to be changing it any time soon in Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Like we didn't see this coming in a forum full of Apple fanboys... God damnit, I love Apple, but why are all you others so closed minded. That is very unfair of you. I still have XP in a partition and I use it most times I want to run Windows apps, especially games. XP serves a useful purpose, Vista does not, as so many apps are incompatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baysie Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Whats Vista ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 (edited) 0_0 Are you serious? Oh I just saw the smiley As it was mentioned, you can turn off the "deny or allow" feature, but it toatally defeats the purpose. Edited February 26, 2007 by Ramm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 *ahem* Ubuntu Linux Windows Vista: Mac OS X: See anything familiar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 .....no.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 THANK YOU colonels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayanami Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 User Account Control is what you're talking about, right? It never ceases to amaze me that every single software vendor in the world thinks that they can control your computer better than you can. It's not just Microsoft...They're just more annoying than some of the others. I found it more annoying that I had to turn of the Security Center warnings to keep the system tray alerts away. Did Microsoft stop to think that SOME of its users might just not want to use ALL the features? Thanks for the vote of confidence MS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 User Account Control is what you're talking about, right? It never ceases to amaze me that every single software vendor in the world thinks that they can control your computer better than you can. It's not just Microsoft...They're just more annoying than some of the others. I found it more annoying that I had to turn of the Security Center warnings to keep the system tray alerts away. Did Microsoft stop to think that SOME of its users might just not want to use ALL the features? Thanks for the vote of confidence MS. Err, UAC and Security Centre are not about controlling your PC. UAC is about giving you a heads up on what programs/services/etc are trying to do and to prevent people who shouldn't doing things (Like if you're a sysadmin at a school you don't want every kid installing any app and changing any system settings they please). Security Centre is about letting you know if you're protected and to also give you a heads up. The only 'controlling' is what you can set UAC to do, like in my school example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djXtreme Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 lol going back On Topic, Grabit works fine with my x64 Vista install. Have you trid clicking the "Download Folder" Icon up in your icons? If you have the 64bit v ersion of the OS, remember that the grabit folder will be in c:/program files(x86)/ not just c:/program files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 one thing - look at the screenshot colonels posted. the vista one is asking about 'mmc.exe' which is a part of windows. how the hell is the typical non-technical end-user supposed to know that? most would, i assume, click the 'i dont know what it is! get it away from me! aaah! aah!' option. most amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin R. Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 It's not that they all don't require passwords to do different things, it's just Windows requires it for almost anything you do administratively. You turn the UAC off, then it annoys you with a bubble down in the system tray. Can you just uninstall it or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartboy919 Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 unlike OSX you can turn off the UAC in Vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 I must admit vista is pretty cool well its ok ........... Security security security my ass dont you find it strange for such a so called secure system that the 1 and only time your asked for a password is when you log on lmarfo. Hell when i was messing with that {censored} keygen thing i had to take permission off a system file so i could replace it and never was i asked for a password now in my book any descent hacker could be in there and have a field day with your comp ,,,,, but yeah apart from that vista is pretty tidy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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