Windows Vista Ultimate Experience

This is my first post on my new blogger account, hosted on my own domain.

I've been running Windows Vista Ultimate Edition for about a month now, and aside from a few UI glitches and compatibility with pre-Vista software, the experience has been pretty positive. Some of the glitches I have encountered so far:

• The Windows Vista Photos screen saver seems to use a lot of resources and crash every time it comes on. I have temporarily disabled my screen saver.


• The new IntelliPoint 6.1 software seem to cause problem with the mouse scroll wheel. For example, in Opera 9.10, when I scroll up, the page occasionally scrolls up and then back down. In Winamp 5.33, when I try to scroll down through my playlist, there is a lot of resistance and I can't scroll unless I REALLY scroll the wheel which ends up in going too far down the list. I have a similar problem in Sound Forge when zooming in on a region, except it happens with both scrolling up and down.
  


• The IntelliType 6.1 software also seems to take over the functionality of all special/multimedia keys on my keyboard and I can no longer map my multimedia keys to be global hotkeys for Winamp without a simple tweak every time I boot up.

The IntelliPoint software, however, comes with a handy new task switcher. I am not sure if it is exclusive to Windows Vista, but the default functionality of the middle click of the mouse tiles all my open programs and I can click on the program I want to switch to. Here is a screenshot: