Vista Problems Anoyances Issues !

Well  Vista is giving me problems, don't get me wrong overall I like it a lot. It feels more stable than xp and things tend to recover themselves. Only once have I had to completly close it down and start again.

Issues that repeat themselves, on two machines;

Notification Icons in task bar do not always show up. The switches to enable them in taskbar properties are grayed out and so can not be used. (Power, Volume, Net and Clock are seperate to program notification icons in the task bar and work when they wish.)

Windows Media player continues playing and auto repeats if you close it whilst its working, only way to stop it is through task manager - closing the process. Definatly a bug!

Programs often freeze and show '(Not Responding)' in the title bar, click on them and they 'white out' after a while most will spring back to life. Idea that this is memory related and once they swap back into memoerythey work fine.

Hard disk shuffle - often slowing Vista down while it moves things around for lno reason whilst you are runnig only one task ; IE: Web Browser.

Skype 3 - volume control messes up (on phone panel) - blame skype !

Internet Explorer 7 crashes at random - report back blames Firefox (not running)

Hardware Volume control buttons on Sony Vaio do not function with or without driver installed, worked fine in both ways on XP

Installing Dreamweaver breaks Vista Help - Doh - did no one test this or notice in Beta !!

Updates insist on being installed even if set to advise only, especialy Defender Updates - they don't get installed but they just wont go away sometimes.

Task bar has changed - you can no longer pull a toolbar off onto the desk top - IE an not create a launch bar across top of screen like in XP.

Simply copying shortcuts of desktop into a folder Vista takes more time drawing a dialog to calculate time remaining than and then inform you to wait than to copy the file.

Same drive copying is way slow - considering its just a rename, could it not just confirm and operate in the background !

More Info on copy dialog is a waste of time, does not feedback what file is being copied no real usful info at all. In fact given the extra line of info why not just show it where the arrow is anyway. Sam space.

Oversimplified Control Pannels lead to feature hunting - nothing is where you moight expect at times. Need a central control pannel in some way. Good one for 3rd party tweakers I guess.

UAC hold your hand way to much - will put people of using their PC , especialy new users and the elderly.

Give me your issues, anoyance bellow. Tips welcome too !