Comments on: Amusingly indecisive dialog box in Windows Vista http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2007/10/27/amusingly-indecisive-dialog-box-in-windows-vista/ News and ideas on user experience. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:31:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nick Jones http://www.thinkflowinteractive.com/2007/10/27/amusingly-indecisive-dialog-box-in-windows-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Nick Jones Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:25:40 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2007/10/27/amusingly-indecisive-dialog-box-in-windows-vista/#comment-57 At least it gives you the option. The Vista user experience is as quirky and idiosyncratic as Windows ever was: 1. recommendations on which user accounts to set up are available on the Microsoft website, but NOT during set-up (where users might need it most?) and do not concur with the 'default' set-up, i.e. user ploughs on with one account (rather than creating a standard AND an admin account). And if you have only one account, Vista bizarrely refuses to recognise the password (I have seen this happen!) and you didn't back it up, you have to reinstall. 2. Vista allows for the backing up of an account without a password. Unsure how this works, but in view of what I have seen and in the belief that Vista just might not 'believe' that your password is blank...I'd advocate backing it up. At least it gives you the option.

The Vista user experience is as quirky and idiosyncratic as Windows ever was:

1. recommendations on which user accounts to set up are available on the Microsoft website, but NOT during set-up (where users might need it most?) and do not concur with the 'default' set-up, i.e. user ploughs on with one account (rather than creating a standard AND an admin account). And if you have only one account, Vista bizarrely refuses to recognise the password (I have seen this happen!) and you didn't back it up, you have to reinstall.

2. Vista allows for the backing up of an account without a password. Unsure how this works, but in view of what I have seen and in the belief that Vista just might not 'believe' that your password is blank...I'd advocate backing it up.

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