I plan on reinstalling Vista really soon because of some of the problems it is giving me. First off, and probably most annoying, any Adobe product will not function properly including Acrobat Reader. It is quite annoying when I have to open a PDF document because I can only get it to work following a very specific process.
Next on the annoying list is my driver problems. Mainly, Vista will not auto locate any of the drivers. Basically, what it does is prompt for a location of where to find the driver every time, even if it has the driver. This was the case for my digital camera, which made things very confusing. Also, ever single flash drive I put into my computer takes over 2 minutes to install, where on other Vista computers they are functional in a few seconds.
Here is what happens when I install a new device.
First it brings me to this screen like it doesn't know what driver to use. It should just start installing the device automatically. At this step I click the "Locate and install..."
Next, I am prompted to have a disk, which I don't have. Actually, there is no other driver I can use in this case except the built in driver provided by Microsoft.
Then, I'm given two choices. The first gives no help because Vista assumes that the driver for the device is already on your computer.
From this screen, if I check for a solution it doesn't locate the driver because it should be on the computer. The only way to get it to work is to browse and set the location to C:\Windows\
To compound the problem, the above steps are typically required to be followed multiple times because most devices use multiple drivers.
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