At first, I wanted to use english software since it is easier for me to use .. and you want to be most productive when you’re working on something, right?
The IDE I chose comes with a multi-language installer, so it should be no problem I thought.
Wrong!
For some reason Windows doesn’t care about what language the user would like to choose.
It just uses the language settings of the operating system. Also pretty bad is that as a user (or admin) you can’t just switch the system language like you can in OS X, for example. There is just the one language.
Japanese in this case.

After tackling this hurdle I needed to use some software that outputs its data via telnet.
So I just wanted to quickly check the output it generates by connecting using the telnet client every operating system comes with.
Not so easy:

So I had to find out how to get a telnet client.
Is it even installed?
It is just deactivated. But to activate it it took about 15 minutes.
Not because I am slow or anything, but Vista itself seems to just take things slowly.
Now I really understand the negative publicity Windows Vista got over the past few years.

This is the place you want to visit:

After about 5 minutes…

…you get this:

After checking the box and clicking OK just wait for about another 10 minutes…