...other than because of its excessively slow speed, of course.
#1 Reason to Hate Vista: display problems. (I already know that Microsoft's astroturfing drones will announce self-righteously that device drivers aren't Microsoft's problem, and I would reply, I don't care, there is just one customer. Got problems with the Microsoft-written OS, and HP has to foot the support bill -- how'd HP and other manufacturers let themselves get suckered into that one?) Anyhow...
My Vista-running HP notebook has nVidia graphics, and I can't count the number of problems I have with a second monitor attached. Here's a partial list:
-- sometimes, the notebook's monitor is identified as monitor #2, while Vista identifies the external monitor as #1.
-- if the notebook is allowed to blank its display, the cursor no longer appears on the external monitor after the display comes back. Only solution I have found is to reboot the computer. This means I can never blank the monitor, only dim it manually with the keyboard buttons.
-- the list of available resolutions varies by the day of the month, seriously. The external monitor runs at 1400x900. This resolution sometimes appears on the available list, and sometimes not. Sometimes other resolutions appear, as high as 2048, other times as low as 1280. Sometimes there are just a few resolution choices; other times many. All this occurs without changing the driver.
-- sometimes, for no apparent reason, Vista changes the "main" monitor to the external one, meaning that the taskbar, desktop icons, etc appear on the external monitor.
-- the external monitor can run at 75Hz, but no matter how many times I change it to 75, Vista changes it back to 60.
I've tried to get HP support to fix some of these, the most frustrating being the fluxuating number of available resolutions. The weak response: install a different driver. nVidia is as bad a Microsoft, and won't touch the problem, either. Yet, their driver support software has a "Contact nVidia" button.
I s'pose it's only poetic justice that Vista SP1 should be worse even than Vista FCS.
Update
Here is a photo of Vista mishandling the screens:
* The desktop icons moved themselves to the external screen, even as the taskbar remains on the notebook's screen.
* The external screen is identified as monitor #1; the notebook computer's screen is id'ed as monitor #2.
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