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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
It seems that Vista doesn't even require human interaction to break. In other words, Vista breaks itself... I was (unfortunately) running and using Vista to work on my website (I'm no Micro$oft fanboy...I usually use Kubuntu), when all of a sudden, all of my programs close, and the computer gives me the "logging off" message. I am thinking "What the heck!?" and then the screen tells me it is configuring updates. How nice of Micro$oft to build into its operating system something as useful as automatic updates, with such a detrimental side-effect. So I wait. The computer reboots itself, and after the bootloader selection and the loading Vista screen, what do I see? Not my usual login screen, but a totally black screen. Then a few seconds later and boom!...a quarter-inch in width vertical line going down the right side of my screen. Irritated enough already, I reboot, and it does it again. I then proceed againt to reboot into safe mode. Windows was nice enough to install a new display driver. I rolled it back and rebooted. That fixed it...
Time after time this keeps happening, I really need to turn that crappy update feature off. As it happens more and more, I have found the fastest way to alleviate the problem to be reboot, use the "Last known good configuration option," which rolls back the graphics driver, and then reboot and select low-res video, and just crank the resolution back up when I get into Windows. Long story short, I hate Vista, and love Kubuntu. Try Linux, please.
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