Another rant about Vista's flaw. This may be one of the most annoying feature implemented that not only I myself experience its wrath, but also countless many others (let's look at a particular victim).

In the following links, the victim suffers the same problem as I have, and placed the very same query over multiple sites hoping for an answer, which only reaps no proper solution, as I have tried them all and none works.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-account-administration/6841-automatic-log-out-lock.html

http://www.windowsvistabuzz.com/forums/thread/9646.aspx

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic56058.html

See, it's so messed up that a person needs to post in various sources just to get a solution to the problem which does NOT YET have a definite fix to it.

Kudos Vista, you're such a retarded OS.

Okay, as you may know, more and more people are now getting into Microsoft's product because of media influence, but let us consider some facts that should benefit the user, not the publisher of the product (a.k.a. WIlliam Gates).

Performance
When it comes to performance, WinAMP takes the cake. WinAMP takes about an average of 1mb to 4mb of your processor, while WMP takes an average of 7mb to 12mb.

Saving your RAM usage for other programs is always a good thing, so this will be your first reason to drop off WMP, and start trying out WinAMP.

UI flexibility
Sad to say, WinAMP can be quite frustrating when it comes to creating a playlist. Unlike WMP, which you create and directly saves the song files that you want, WinAMP requires users to manually save it, which could be a nuinsance if you are creating multiple playlist with the same song files.

Hence, when it comes to UI, WMP still gets the upper-hand on it.


All in all, it comes down to what most user wants - easier, or performance, it's up to you to decide, but personally, I'd go with performance, so to hell with WMP.

Do you often find yourself wondering, "Why doesn't my software/program work on Vista?". The answer is quite simple actually, all due to UAC (User Account Control).

The UAC is what prevents most of us to run certain programs, even after you have set it to run as Administrator. This is one of the most screwed up implementation for Windows Vista, honestly.

I tried re-installing O2Jam while having UAC offed. Installation was as normal, then I attempted to launch the O2Jam Launcher.exe, and guess what? This time it works!

I am updating O2Jam, yes!!


To disable UAC, just click the Windows' Start button, click on your User Icon and choose "Turn User Account Control on or off", and voila, no more stupid restrictions.

In conclusion, Windows Vista has stupid features that may or may not cause trouble to your gaming/working experience (use it only if you are extremely certain, don't regret later).