I don't pretend to understand why Microsoft makes many of the decisions they make, but when I run across an error like this in a OS that is already many gigabytes in size I have to ask myself, "Why?"
I haven't had many issues with Vista. There are some quirks with DRM in media player hogging system resources. Other than that, I'm rather surprised at how well it runs on my rather outdated Toshiba Tecra M3 (company laptop).
I'll admit, Vista was a bit of a pain in the early days when drivers were sparse. Whether this was due to hardware manufactures being lazy and thinking Microsoft wouldn't hit their target date or Microsoft changing too much with too little notice is beyond me.
There are some applications that don't like to play with Vista, which is to be expected and has happened in almost every Windows release. User Access Control has been the major culprit of most issues. I can't say I enjoy getting 2 or 3 prompts to do a simple task. I'd like to see an option that unlocks for X minutes for when I do multiple tasks that upset UAC.
Still, this error tickled me in an uncomfortable way. As aforementioned, Vista is not a lightweight when it comes to disk space requirements. I really would like to know what significant change was made that caused the old WinHlp32.exe to become obsolete to the point that they just completely ditched it. In the end, there had better be a damn good reason for removing something this trivial.
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