Windows Vista is really annoying

• When you put in a blank DVD and choose to open it in Explorer for writing, the default setting is some kind of Windows Vista filesystem, that can only be read from Windows Vista. I have to change it to “normal filesystem” every single time. Not such a great job done on making Windows more user-friendly.
• When you drag files onto the blank DVD, it tells you if they will fit or not. This would be a great feature, if only it worked consistently. Half the time it says they won’t fit straight away. The rest of the time it lets me put the files there and then errors later on, after I tell it to burn.
• Ordinary file operations, like deleting files have become much slower. Also, a confusing information box appears, where the progress bars bear even less relation to reality than in previous versions of Windows. I didn’t think this was actually possible, but they have made some of the most common Windows operations even less pleasant.
• If you go to the Properties of a hard drive and turn off “index this drive for faster searching”, it has to apply some kind of attribute *to every single file on the hard drive*. This takes forever. Idiots.
• There’s a new bar at the top of Windows Explorer, that I don’t understand. It often makes a ‘progress bar’ move across from left to right behind the current directory name. Often the bar gets slower and slower as it moves, until it seems like it will never reach the other side.
• It’s always popping up an error message saying that “COM Surrogate has stopped working”. Yes I know people have described ways to “fix” this, but I’ve tried them and they don’t work for me. And anyway, that isn’t the point. I shouldn’t have to fix it in the first place.
• Also, sometimes when I drag files onto a blank DVD, the “copying” dialog box just stays there on the screen and doesn’t go away, as if the files aren’t getting copied. The progress bar area is just blank. I left it overnight once, and it didn’t disappear. And when I click the cancel button, nothing happens – the box is still stuck there, except now the cancel button is greyed out. Totally useless, and very typical of Windows.
• Oh yes, and when that “authorisation” system kicks in, where the screen goes dim and you have to click to allow certain programs to change windows settings — why does the entire screen go blank for a second before the dialog box appears? It makes it feel as if the monitor has a loose connection or something, instead of making a smooth transition.