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Most irrititaing trivial thing about Vista

  • 20-03-2009 5:03pm
    #1
    clartharlear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭


    Say I'm reading a web page and click on a link to open another. Vista forces me look at the slooooowly loading new page, rather than continuing to view the initial page. Same with office documents.
    I can't find any setting to require new windows to load under open windows. Does one exist?


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Its a setting in the browser I think.
    Which are you using?


  • #3
    clartharlear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭clartharlear


    IE. But I have the "switch to new tabs when they're created" option turned off, and it's not just internet, it's documents like Word and Excel too.

    (PS I like your sig)


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Use OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox.

    Or an older decent version of Office, like Office97 :)


  • #5
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    clartharlear wrote: »
    Say I'm reading a web page and click on a link to open another. Vista forces me look at the slooooowly loading new page, rather than continuing to view the initial page. Same with office documents.
    I can't find any setting to require new windows to load under open windows. Does one exist?

    Course its Vista's fault as always

    Sounds like You've not got enough ram to run Vista, How much ram have You got? What version of Vista? And what processor (my guess its a Celeron)?

    Also, If You want new links to open in the background in your browser ctrl+click them, same for all browsers unless u change the settings


  • #6
    Unregistered.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Unregistered.


    watty wrote: »
    Use OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox...
    Happens with Firefox also!


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  • #7
    clartharlear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭clartharlear


    It's interesting that people don't seem to know what I'm talking about. Maybe it is something to do with my crappy laptop after all. I also use OpenOffice and of course I ctrl-click. I've a gig of ram and a turion dual core processor.
    watty wrote: »
    Use OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox.

    Or an older decent version of Office, like Office97 :)
    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Course its Vista's fault as always

    Sounds like You've not got enough ram to run Vista, How much ram have You got? What version of Vista? And what processor (my guess its a Celeron)?

    Also, If You want new links to open in the background in your browser ctrl+click them, same for all browsers unless u change the settings


  • #8
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    clartharlear wrote: »
    I've a gig of ram and a turion dual core processor.
    That's no good for Vista. You should upgrade to 2Gb (2x 1Gb modules), it's very affordable these days.

    I doubt that's whats slowing your browser down, but it's a worthwhile upgrade.

    In relation to that, why don't you just open links in a new tab, and don't switch to the new tab until it has loaded? Right-click a link in Firefox and it will give you the option to load it in a new tab; also un-tick the option to open the new tab immediately.


  • #9
    clartharlear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭clartharlear


    Sorry, I didn't explain myself clearly maybe. It's not internet, it's all windows.
    I have done "un-tick the option to open the new tab immediately. ", but the tab, or the IE window, or the word , excel, ppt document still pops up to show a blank screen while it's loading. I don't want them to show on top until they've loaded.


  • #10
    bandit197
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭bandit197


    I understand your question but Im not aware of a setting to open new applications in the background in Vista.
    You really need more RAM. The reason why vista doesn't open word, excel documents etc in the background is because it expects you to want to use them immediately. When you have enough RAM to run the system properly documents load very quickly.
    2GB will make a world of difference. Try http://www.crucial.com/eu/
    Around 30eur will buy 2GB for most laptops these days.


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