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Can't work with Vista business
I think that I'm going to have to wipe my machine and reinstall XP. Vista
definitely has not wowed me. It just keeps getting in the way when I try to work: 1) Long naps at random intervals. It just stops working for up to an hour. The mouse moves, but nothing else reacts. The only solution is to press the power button and shut it down. 2) Frequent requests for authorisation, almost any action requires my permission. Why doesn't it remember what I said, like Kerio and Zonealarm? 3) Incredibly slow installation of updates. I keep hoping that one of the updates will improve its performance, but all I get is long delays (20-40 minutes) whilst they install. 4) Inoperable network. Very few things work on my network (Two PCs in a workgroup, one Vista Business, the other XP Home). The latest calamity is access denied on destination folder copying from XP to Documents (or C:\Downloads). Office Groove will synchronise the Documents folder, but ignores .exes and I want to copy an installation program. I’ll just have to use my new 2gb pen drive. 5) Task manager. What can I say, it’s a joke. Sometimes Vista displays the blue screen of death and says that it can’t open the security options, so the program won’t even start. The rest of the time, it opens Task Manager, but that says that there’s nothing running. System idle process is at 99%, but I can’t do any work. This machine has a dual core Pentium 3ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and a huge hard disk, but I could achieve more with a ZX80. (For the youngsters out there this machine had a 4mhz Z80 processor and 1k of ram, but was reputed to have enough processing power to run a nuclear power plant) I don’t want to have to be an expert on the inner workings of Windows. I cannot afford to take an in-depth security course. Vista was supposed to make life easier, not stop it in its tracks. Any suggestions on how to improve Vista performance would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve |
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Can't work with Vista business
On 2/17/2007 12:00 PM, Steve Franks:
I think that I'm going to have to wipe my machine and reinstall XP. Vista definitely has not wowed me. It just keeps getting in the way when I try to work: 1) Long naps at random intervals. It just stops working for up to an hour. The mouse moves, but nothing else reacts. The only solution is to press the power button and shut it down. Any non-configured or disabled devices in Device Manager? Did you run the Vista Upgrade Advisor before installing Vista and removing XP from the computer? 2) Frequent requests for authorisation, almost any action requires my permission. Why doesn't it remember what I said, like Kerio and Zonealarm? Scarcity computing. The User Access Control (UAC) just works that way. You can disable it in the Control Panel - User Accounts - User Accounts and click the option 'Turn User Account Control on or off'. If Vista's UAC would remember like ZoneAlarm, or at least remember what you previously authorized to access during your logged in Windows session, this would be more user friendly than user annoyance (or nuisance). 3) Incredibly slow installation of updates. I keep hoping that one of the updates will improve its performance, but all I get is long delays (20-40 minutes) whilst they install. This problem correlates to #1 above. To take a guess, probably a chipset incompatible driver that may need to get upgraded to a Vista compatible driver. 4) Inoperable network. Very few things work on my network (Two PCs in a workgroup, one Vista Business, the other XP Home). The latest calamity is access denied on destination folder copying from XP to Documents (or C:\Downloads). Office Groove will synchronise the Documents folder, but ignores .exes and I want to copy an installation program. I’ll just have to use my new 2gb pen drive. Make sure you set the permissions correctly on the Vista share. At first I had same problem and remember correcting the access denied issue when I adjusted the share permissions. 5) Task manager. What can I say, it’s a joke. Sometimes Vista displays the blue screen of death and says that it can’t open the security options, so the program won’t even start. The rest of the time, it opens Task Manager, but that says that there’s nothing running. System idle process is at 99%, but I can’t do any work. This machine has a dual core Pentium 3ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and a huge hard disk, but I could achieve more with a ZX80. (For the youngsters out there this machine had a 4mhz Z80 processor and 1k of ram, but was reputed to have enough processing power to run a nuclear power plant) I don’t want to have to be an expert on the inner workings of Windows. I cannot afford to take an in-depth security course. Vista was supposed to make life easier, not stop it in its tracks. Comparing Windows Vista to Windows XP, Windows XP is the less complex and complicated operating system to navigate. Any suggestions on how to improve Vista performance would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve |
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Can't work with Vista business
I have seen problems like you describe. It was always due to incompatible
hardware or a wrong or a buggy driver. Did you upgrade or perform a clean install? If you did an upgrade my first suggestion would be to start again with a clean install to make sure the problems aren't caused by an incompatible program or driver carried over from XP. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "Steve Franks" wrote in message ... I think that I'm going to have to wipe my machine and reinstall XP. Vista definitely has not wowed me. It just keeps getting in the way when I try to work: 1) Long naps at random intervals. It just stops working for up to an hour. The mouse moves, but nothing else reacts. The only solution is to press the power button and shut it down. 2) Frequent requests for authorisation, almost any action requires my permission. Why doesn't it remember what I said, like Kerio and Zonealarm? 3) Incredibly slow installation of updates. I keep hoping that one of the updates will improve its performance, but all I get is long delays (20-40 minutes) whilst they install. 4) Inoperable network. Very few things work on my network (Two PCs in a workgroup, one Vista Business, the other XP Home). The latest calamity is access denied on destination folder copying from XP to Documents (or C:\Downloads). Office Groove will synchronise the Documents folder, but ignores .exes and I want to copy an installation program. I’ll just have to use my new 2gb pen drive. 5) Task manager. What can I say, it’s a joke. Sometimes Vista displays the blue screen of death and says that it can’t open the security options, so the program won’t even start. The rest of the time, it opens Task Manager, but that says that there’s nothing running. System idle process is at 99%, but I can’t do any work. This machine has a dual core Pentium 3ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and a huge hard disk, but I could achieve more with a ZX80. (For the youngsters out there this machine had a 4mhz Z80 processor and 1k of ram, but was reputed to have enough processing power to run a nuclear power plant) I don’t want to have to be an expert on the inner workings of Windows. I cannot afford to take an in-depth security course. Vista was supposed to make life easier, not stop it in its tracks. Any suggestions on how to improve Vista performance would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve |
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Can't work with Vista business
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"Steve Franks" wrote in message ... I think that I'm going to have to wipe my machine and reinstall XP. Vista definitely has not wowed me. It just keeps getting in the way when I try to work: 1) Long naps at random intervals. It just stops working for up to an hour. The mouse moves, but nothing else reacts. The only solution is to press the power button and shut it down. Set up a different power saving scheme that doesn't include hibernation or sleep. My mobo has never gotten Sleep right. 'Could be the KVM switch 2) Frequent requests for authorisation, almost any action requires my permission. Why doesn't it remember what I said, like Kerio and Zonealarm? You can easily turn off UAC. Especially at first you might want to, if you are installing a lot of software from CD. Once everything is set up on a machine you might turn it back on as it is designed to keep malware at bay. 3) Incredibly slow installation of updates. I keep hoping that one of the updates will improve its performance, but all I get is long delays (20-40 minutes) whilst they install. No. An update will probably not fix this issue. It could be caused by a virus scanner or some 3rd party app you've installed. Or , if you have done an upgrade, a misconfiguration of some app that was present when XP was the OS. 4) Inoperable network. Very few things work on my network (Two PCs in a workgroup, one Vista Business, the other XP Home). The latest calamity is access denied on destination folder copying from XP to Documents (or C:\Downloads). Office Groove will synchronise the Documents folder, but ignores .exes and I want to copy an installation program. I’ll just have to use my new 2gb pen drive. You just haven't learned what's going on. Vista is using the more secure method of networking by default i.e. one must have an account to network with your computer. Check the various Networking features which can be accesed through the Control Panel. You can adjust the Password Protected networking feature. 5) Task manager. What can I say, it’s a joke. Sometimes Vista displays the blue screen of death and says that it can’t open the security options, so the program won’t even start. The rest of the time, it opens Task Manager, but that says that there’s nothing running. System idle process is at 99%, but I can’t do any work. This machine has a dual core Pentium 3ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and a huge hard disk, but I could achieve more with a ZX80. (For the youngsters out there this machine had a 4mhz Z80 processor and 1k of ram, but was reputed to have enough processing power to run a nuclear power plant) I don’t want to have to be an expert on the inner workings of Windows. I cannot afford to take an in-depth security course. Vista was supposed to make life easier, not stop it in its tracks. Any suggestions on how to improve Vista performance would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve You can use another performace utility that comes with Vista and is found in Computer Management: Start right-click Computer select manage on the left-hand pane click on "Reliability and Performance" Did you clean install Vista (from scratch) or do an upgrade? I would recommend trying again - doing a clean install from scratch - if the installation you have is an upgrade install. There is a technique to clean install from scratch even if you only have the upgrade media: [How to Clean Install Windows Vista with Upgrade Media] http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp Before doing so, check for and download and burn to CD-R the latest drivers from the manufacturer's websites. Line-up product CD, keys, codes and any other necessary info. Make sure important data e.g. documents, music, etc. etc. is backed up. 'Hope it works for you. -- Saucy -- For email: guidsaucy at hotmail dot com |
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Can't work with Vista business
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-- Steve Franks "Mark" wrote: On 2/17/2007 12:00 PM, Steve Franks: I think that I'm going to have to wipe my machine and reinstall XP. Vista definitely has not wowed me. It just keeps getting in the way when I try to work: 1) Long naps at random intervals. It just stops working for up to an hour. The mouse moves, but nothing else reacts. The only solution is to press the power button and shut it down. Any non-configured or disabled devices in Device Manager? No, device manager shows everything working. Did you run the Vista Upgrade Advisor before installing Vista and removing XP from the computer? Yes VUA said the machine was fine, everything should work. Having said that I had the same result with my other PC and Vista wouldn't start on it. 2) Frequent requests for authorisation, almost any action requires my permission. Why doesn't it remember what I said, like Kerio and Zonealarm? Scarcity computing. The User Access Control (UAC) just works that way. You can disable it in the Control Panel - User Accounts - User Accounts and click the option 'Turn User Account Control on or off'. Sounds dangerous, I'll have to think wehther I can stand the annoyance. This is the least of my problems. If Vista's UAC would remember like ZoneAlarm, or at least remember what you previously authorized to access during your logged in Windows session, this would be more user friendly than user annoyance (or nuisance). 3) Incredibly slow installation of updates. I keep hoping that one of the updates will improve its performance, but all I get is long delays (20-40 minutes) whilst they install. This problem correlates to #1 above. To take a guess, probably a chipset incompatible driver that may need to get upgraded to a Vista compatible driver. 4) Inoperable network. Very few things work on my network (Two PCs in a workgroup, one Vista Business, the other XP Home). The latest calamity is access denied on destination folder copying from XP to Documents (or C:\Downloads). Office Groove will synchronise the Documents folder, but ignores .exes and I want to copy an installation program. I’ll just have to use my new 2gb pen drive. Make sure you set the permissions correctly on the Vista share. At first I had same problem and remember correcting the access denied issue when I adjusted the share permissions. Not sure which permissions to set. I don't want to open the network up to hackers. Vista won't let me share the C: drive. I've allowed everyone full access, but my XP home machine can't read the disk. 5) Task manager. What can I say, it’s a joke. Sometimes Vista displays the blue screen of death and says that it can’t open the security options, so the program won’t even start. The rest of the time, it opens Task Manager, but that says that there’s nothing running. System idle process is at 99%, but I can’t do any work. This machine has a dual core Pentium 3ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and a huge hard disk, but I could achieve more with a ZX80. (For the youngsters out there this machine had a 4mhz Z80 processor and 1k of ram, but was reputed to have enough processing power to run a nuclear power plant) I don’t want to have to be an expert on the inner workings of Windows. I cannot afford to take an in-depth security course. Vista was supposed to make life easier, not stop it in its tracks. Comparing Windows Vista to Windows XP, Windows XP is the less complex and complicated operating system to navigate. As I said before I thought Vista was going to make it easier for me to do what I want, that's not the case so far. Any suggestions on how to improve Vista performance would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve |
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Can't work with Vista business
I have the Vista upgrade disk, so upgraded.
I've read that this can be used for a clean install, but MS frown upon it. Device manager seems to think that all of the drivers are up to date. -- Steve Franks "Kerry Brown" wrote: I have seen problems like you describe. It was always due to incompatible hardware or a wrong or a buggy driver. Did you upgrade or perform a clean install? If you did an upgrade my first suggestion would be to start again with a clean install to make sure the problems aren't caused by an incompatible program or driver carried over from XP. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "Steve Franks" wrote in message ... I think that I'm going to have to wipe my machine and reinstall XP. Vista definitely has not wowed me. It just keeps getting in the way when I try to work: 1) Long naps at random intervals. It just stops working for up to an hour. The mouse moves, but nothing else reacts. The only solution is to press the power button and shut it down. 2) Frequent requests for authorisation, almost any action requires my permission. Why doesn't it remember what I said, like Kerio and Zonealarm? 3) Incredibly slow installation of updates. I keep hoping that one of the updates will improve its performance, but all I get is long delays (20-40 minutes) whilst they install. 4) Inoperable network. Very few things work on my network (Two PCs in a workgroup, one Vista Business, the other XP Home). The latest calamity is access denied on destination folder copying from XP to Documents (or C:\Downloads). Office Groove will synchronise the Documents folder, but ignores .exes and I want to copy an installation program. I’ll just have to use my new 2gb pen drive. 5) Task manager. What can I say, it’s a joke. Sometimes Vista displays the blue screen of death and says that it can’t open the security options, so the program won’t even start. The rest of the time, it opens Task Manager, but that says that there’s nothing running. System idle process is at 99%, but I can’t do any work. This machine has a dual core Pentium 3ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and a huge hard disk, but I could achieve more with a ZX80. (For the youngsters out there this machine had a 4mhz Z80 processor and 1k of ram, but was reputed to have enough processing power to run a nuclear power plant) I don’t want to have to be an expert on the inner workings of Windows. I cannot afford to take an in-depth security course. Vista was supposed to make life easier, not stop it in its tracks. Any suggestions on how to improve Vista performance would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve |
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Can't work with Vista business
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=196
-- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "Steve Franks" wrote in message ... I have the Vista upgrade disk, so upgraded. I've read that this can be used for a clean install, but MS frown upon it. Device manager seems to think that all of the drivers are up to date. -- Steve Franks "Kerry Brown" wrote: I have seen problems like you describe. It was always due to incompatible hardware or a wrong or a buggy driver. Did you upgrade or perform a clean install? If you did an upgrade my first suggestion would be to start again with a clean install to make sure the problems aren't caused by an incompatible program or driver carried over from XP. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "Steve Franks" wrote in message ... I think that I'm going to have to wipe my machine and reinstall XP. Vista definitely has not wowed me. It just keeps getting in the way when I try to work: 1) Long naps at random intervals. It just stops working for up to an hour. The mouse moves, but nothing else reacts. The only solution is to press the power button and shut it down. 2) Frequent requests for authorisation, almost any action requires my permission. Why doesn't it remember what I said, like Kerio and Zonealarm? 3) Incredibly slow installation of updates. I keep hoping that one of the updates will improve its performance, but all I get is long delays (20-40 minutes) whilst they install. 4) Inoperable network. Very few things work on my network (Two PCs in a workgroup, one Vista Business, the other XP Home). The latest calamity is access denied on destination folder copying from XP to Documents (or C:\Downloads). Office Groove will synchronise the Documents folder, but ignores .exes and I want to copy an installation program. I’ll just have to use my new 2gb pen drive. 5) Task manager. What can I say, it’s a joke. Sometimes Vista displays the blue screen of death and says that it can’t open the security options, so the program won’t even start. The rest of the time, it opens Task Manager, but that says that there’s nothing running. System idle process is at 99%, but I can’t do any work. This machine has a dual core Pentium 3ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and a huge hard disk, but I could achieve more with a ZX80. (For the youngsters out there this machine had a 4mhz Z80 processor and 1k of ram, but was reputed to have enough processing power to run a nuclear power plant) I don’t want to have to be an expert on the inner workings of Windows. I cannot afford to take an in-depth security course. Vista was supposed to make life easier, not stop it in its tracks. Any suggestions on how to improve Vista performance would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve |
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Can't work with Vista business
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
-- Steve Franks "Saucy" wrote: INLINE: "Steve Franks" wrote in message ... I think that I'm going to have to wipe my machine and reinstall XP. Vista definitely has not wowed me. It just keeps getting in the way when I try to work: 1) Long naps at random intervals. It just stops working for up to an hour. The mouse moves, but nothing else reacts. The only solution is to press the power button and shut it down. Set up a different power saving scheme that doesn't include hibernation or sleep. My mobo has never gotten Sleep right. 'Could be the KVM switch I've never allowed hibernation or sleep, I don't trust Windows to do it right. 2) Frequent requests for authorisation, almost any action requires my permission. Why doesn't it remember what I said, like Kerio and Zonealarm? You can easily turn off UAC. Especially at first you might want to, if you are installing a lot of software from CD. Once everything is set up on a machine you might turn it back on as it is designed to keep malware at bay. This is beyond a joke, I can't even copy files to my pen drive, without changing permissions. When I changed permissions to allow everyone full control Windows wouldn't let me move files to a subfolder! I really cannot waste any more time on this. 3) Incredibly slow installation of updates. I keep hoping that one of the updates will improve its performance, but all I get is long delays (20-40 minutes) whilst they install. No. An update will probably not fix this issue. It could be caused by a virus scanner or some 3rd party app you've installed. Or , if you have done an upgrade, a misconfiguration of some app that was present when XP was the OS. 4) Inoperable network. Very few things work on my network (Two PCs in a workgroup, one Vista Business, the other XP Home). The latest calamity is access denied on destination folder copying from XP to Documents (or C:\Downloads). Office Groove will synchronise the Documents folder, but ignores .exes and I want to copy an installation program. I’ll just have to use my new 2gb pen drive. You just haven't learned what's going on. Vista is using the more secure method of networking by default i.e. one must have an account to network with your computer. Check the various Networking features which can be accesed through the Control Panel. You can adjust the Password Protected networking feature. I don't want to learn what's going on. I should not have to. If I buy a car I don't expect to have to take an automotive engineering degree before I can drive it away. The defaults should allow one to perform reasonable actions, like copying files between folders/computers. It defeats the object when a computer administrator doesn't have sufficient rights to perform these everyday functions. 5) Task manager. What can I say, it’s a joke. Sometimes Vista displays the blue screen of death and says that it can’t open the security options, so the program won’t even start. The rest of the time, it opens Task Manager, but that says that there’s nothing running. System idle process is at 99%, but I can’t do any work. This machine has a dual core Pentium 3ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and a huge hard disk, but I could achieve more with a ZX80. (For the youngsters out there this machine had a 4mhz Z80 processor and 1k of ram, but was reputed to have enough processing power to run a nuclear power plant) I don’t want to have to be an expert on the inner workings of Windows. I cannot afford to take an in-depth security course. Vista was supposed to make life easier, not stop it in its tracks. Any suggestions on how to improve Vista performance would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve You can use another performace utility that comes with Vista and is found in Computer Management: Start right-click Computer select manage on the left-hand pane click on "Reliability and Performance" Did that. It's showing reliability dropping on an almost daily basis, yet another reason to return to XP. Did you clean install Vista (from scratch) or do an upgrade? I would recommend trying again - doing a clean install from scratch - if the installation you have is an upgrade install. There is a technique to clean install from scratch even if you only have the upgrade media: [How to Clean Install Windows Vista with Upgrade Media] http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp Before doing so, check for and download and burn to CD-R the latest drivers from the manufacturer's websites. Line-up product CD, keys, codes and any other necessary info. Make sure important data e.g. documents, music, etc. etc. is backed up. I've wasted too much time already. If I have to format the drive to install from scratch I'll just go back to XP. The real killer for me is that I can't back up Vista across my network, because it won't write the data to my XP Home computer. Maybe when Microsoft have issued a couple of service packs I'll try again, but right now I'm going to reformat and install XP. 'Hope it works for you. Nope. -- Saucy -- For email: guidsaucy at hotmail dot com |
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Can't work with Vista business
"Steve Franks" wrote in message news Thanks for taking the time to reply. -- Steve Franks "Saucy" wrote: INLINE: "Steve Franks" wrote in message ... I think that I'm going to have to wipe my machine and reinstall XP. Vista definitely has not wowed me. It just keeps getting in the way when I try to work: 1) Long naps at random intervals. It just stops working for up to an hour. The mouse moves, but nothing else reacts. The only solution is to press the power button and shut it down. Set up a different power saving scheme that doesn't include hibernation or sleep. My mobo has never gotten Sleep right. 'Could be the KVM switch I've never allowed hibernation or sleep, I don't trust Windows to do it right. 2) Frequent requests for authorisation, almost any action requires my permission. Why doesn't it remember what I said, like Kerio and Zonealarm? You can easily turn off UAC. Especially at first you might want to, if you are installing a lot of software from CD. Once everything is set up on a machine you might turn it back on as it is designed to keep malware at bay. This is beyond a joke, I can't even copy files to my pen drive, without changing permissions. When I changed permissions to allow everyone full control Windows wouldn't let me move files to a subfolder! I really cannot waste any more time on this. 3) Incredibly slow installation of updates. I keep hoping that one of the updates will improve its performance, but all I get is long delays (20-40 minutes) whilst they install. No. An update will probably not fix this issue. It could be caused by a virus scanner or some 3rd party app you've installed. Or , if you have done an upgrade, a misconfiguration of some app that was present when XP was the OS. 4) Inoperable network. Very few things work on my network (Two PCs in a workgroup, one Vista Business, the other XP Home). The latest calamity is access denied on destination folder copying from XP to Documents (or C:\Downloads). Office Groove will synchronise the Documents folder, but ignores .exes and I want to copy an installation program. I'll just have to use my new 2gb pen drive. You just haven't learned what's going on. Vista is using the more secure method of networking by default i.e. one must have an account to network with your computer. Check the various Networking features which can be accesed through the Control Panel. You can adjust the Password Protected networking feature. I don't want to learn what's going on. I should not have to. If I buy a car I don't expect to have to take an automotive engineering degree before I can drive it away. The defaults should allow one to perform reasonable actions, like copying files between folders/computers. It defeats the object when a computer administrator doesn't have sufficient rights to perform these everyday functions. 5) Task manager. What can I say, it's a joke. Sometimes Vista displays the blue screen of death and says that it can't open the security options, so the program won't even start. The rest of the time, it opens Task Manager, but that says that there's nothing running. System idle process is at 99%, but I can't do any work. This machine has a dual core Pentium 3ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and a huge hard disk, but I could achieve more with a ZX80. (For the youngsters out there this machine had a 4mhz Z80 processor and 1k of ram, but was reputed to have enough processing power to run a nuclear power plant) I don't want to have to be an expert on the inner workings of Windows. I cannot afford to take an in-depth security course. Vista was supposed to make life easier, not stop it in its tracks. Any suggestions on how to improve Vista performance would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve You can use another performace utility that comes with Vista and is found in Computer Management: Start right-click Computer select manage on the left-hand pane click on "Reliability and Performance" Did that. It's showing reliability dropping on an almost daily basis, yet another reason to return to XP. Did you clean install Vista (from scratch) or do an upgrade? I would recommend trying again - doing a clean install from scratch - if the installation you have is an upgrade install. There is a technique to clean install from scratch even if you only have the upgrade media: [How to Clean Install Windows Vista with Upgrade Media] http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp Before doing so, check for and download and burn to CD-R the latest drivers from the manufacturer's websites. Line-up product CD, keys, codes and any other necessary info. Make sure important data e.g. documents, music, etc. etc. is backed up. I've wasted too much time already. If I have to format the drive to install from scratch I'll just go back to XP. The real killer for me is that I can't back up Vista across my network, because it won't write the data to my XP Home computer. Maybe when Microsoft have issued a couple of service packs I'll try again, but right now I'm going to reformat and install XP. 'Hope it works for you. Nope. -- Saucy -- For email: guidsaucy at hotmail dot com Similar experience this end. I'm back using XP prof and enjoying it 100% !!!!!!!!!!!! |