On 8 Feb., 01:20, Mike Torello wrote:
"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:

You need to find yourself a good local technician..

And you need to find a news reader that can handle proper quoting.

Yes, the graffittists are at work, giving disinformation.

Most Vista systems work with the built-in games. Nothing more than
that. Even games players have been crying out on the Internet for help
with installing software. However, they are not to blame. It is the
"Wizard" that does the installing. They do not need the advice of
Anoraks. They need a stable operating system.

The "clunkiness" mentioned by Chris Crum of WebProNews relates amongst
other things to things happening as if one had pressed the input key,
although one has not. Suddenly, the machine does something that the
user has not instructed it to do.

The original complaint by Eibert was: "It just keeps freezing and
rebooting mostly when i touch or pick it up."

Yes, it is over-sensitive. It is over-sensitive regardless of the
individual unit, and regardless of the manufacturer. This is therefore
not a dry joint on the circuit-board, which is a common cause of
intermittent faults. It is the operating system.

Out of the box, it will not maximise the DOS window. As I said, I
tried Xitami and it "repaired" that fault, so I now can maximise the
window. However, one cannot recommend to every user that they try (and
fail) to run a specific server, just to "repair" a fault.

Out of the box, when simply switching on, it "configured updates" and
crashed. I disabled updates, and it is more stable.

Here is one example, out of many thousands. Also, one has the "Anorak"
commentary, which does not help the victim:

http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/for...es-104134.html

The Ubuntu advice is good. That is a version of LINUX - a stable
public-domain operating system. Using that, the victim can at least
access the disk and rescue files. These crashes on Vista happen so
suddenly that one cannot always back-up the files. I find that I am
backing up every few seconds, because with Vista one does not know
what is coming next. However, having to do so is very distracting.

Beware of the spam e-mails offering a "Microsoft Critical Patch". This
is a virus. Virus-writers have discovered how buggy Microsoft systems
are, and masquerade as genuine Microsoft sources.

I tried to get through to the Microsoft website, to show the list of
non-functioning "Updates to enable updates". However, on the Microsoft
site, once a Microsoft pop-up window appears, one cannot get rid of
it. So I cannot show you the list. There are at least 42 attempts by
Microsoft to repair their system over the WWW, all of them failures.

There are even shops on the Web that SELL these non-functioning
updates that are free from Microsoft. Avoid them.

Charles Douglas Wehner