It's slow, it gives no options, it gives no analysis before defrag, it gives no progress bars, it gives no results, it gives no statistics. I'M ****ED!

A classic clip showing what Vista users must deal with... http://snipurl.com/19r0y If they would just wisen up and get a Mac, the world would be a happier place! http://www.apple.com/hardware/ http://www.apple.com/software/

Some of us want to choose what "gets out" and what doesn't. And this info doesn't work since there is nowhere to make such a change in the Windows Firewall window that comes up. Configure it - HOW? Can someone explain how it's configured to actually work without being a programmer writing strange unknown confusing rules for everything that wants to connect to the net? If not, can someone...

Hi Running a notebook with Vista Home Premium. Did a disk cleanup and noticed I had about 2gig of Hibernate files. I left them alone but don't really understand hibernate vs sleep and whether to keep or delete these files. Suggestions TIA Harmon

Can someone recommend a good FREE defragger that shows the process as it did in W98 and XP? I can't stand having no damn idea how long it will take when I have other things to do. Why the hell was it changed so no one has a clue how fragmented the drive is or how long it will take?

I'm posting this in a few places, so hopefully someone far smarter than I will run across it. I'm at my wits' end and I can't get any assistance from Microsoft or Toshiba on a two-week-old notebook! Here goes: 1) Two or three times, I've gotten a blue screen. The stop error message is pfn_list_corrupt. Vista shuts down and pretty much restarts itself normally. When the boot option menu...

Is defragmentation using XP is okay? I tried on Vista RC1 or Beta 2 (can't remember which. I tried them both). I defrag it using XP - the drive where i installed vista, and the Vista can't load afterwards. I don't want to try this on my Retail vista yet. I found the defragmentation program in vista disappointing. I also read in help and support, that you can get a more advance view by

My computer has shutdown three times without warning over the past two days. the error message that appears is as follows: Product Windows Problem Shut down unexpectedly

I have been a developer since early 80's. I've been disappointed, and re-disappointed year after year at the lower and lower quality of crap that Microsoft pushes on us. But Vista absolutely takes the cake. I've been running it for a year, and still get frustrated every single day about what a total worthless pile of crap this is. Why can't Microsoft stop spening money trying to convince...

I had posted in a couple of various threads that I was also affected by this update (KB931768) under both Vista and Windows XP. Under Vista, Windows Mail had become so slow as to be almost impossible to use. Clicking on a post in the news groups took about 2-4 seconds to show the text in the bottom. Replying to a post also took about 2-4 seconds to bring us a usable reply window. Shutting...

No infections of any kind can be found on this PC, yet MSMail, MozillaFF and IE7 lock up constantly. How can this be fixed short of a reformat and reinstall of the OS? Vista has been as unstable as W98 for us. Is there any way to get it as stable as XP? Does anyone know what causes these constant W98 type freezes so many of us are enduring with Vista?

Hi everybody, At the moment I've installed Vista Ultimate x64 Sp2 and on the task manager I see that the system is using about 1.1 gig of my memory. I disabled all of the fancy features of vista and using Vista classic theme. Does anybody have the same problem? ps. I've 2 gig of ram and quad core processor. --

Does anyone notice that after statup is complete, you get a 2 and a half minute of Prefetching going on. There is a 2 and a half minute of constant hard disk activity during this time and from the Reliability and Performance Monitor, it shows hundreds of: svchost.exe (LocalSystemNetworkRestricted) svchost.exe (secsvcs) The top one is related to Superfetch. The second one is related to...

I've just installed SP1 (via MSDN) and I'm pleased to say it appears to do the trick...or at least so far so go. I've just copied a 200MB file from PC to server and it went like a rocket! In addition, I'm noting a responsiveness in the odd application; for example, I use Windows Mail to access USENET, and under SP1, I'm in and starting browsing much quicker - pre-SP1 there would be a slight...

Hi there, I installed some updates for Vista Enterprise yesterday (the 10th of October) prior to leaving the office. When I returned this morning (the 11th), turned my machine on, I got to the Windows login screen, was able to logon, however, instead of a desktop, I receive a black screen with a cursor that I can move around. I've searched the groups, google, etc, the common message seems to...

What is the best Anti-Virus software For Vista Ultimate?

I'm running Vista Home Premium SP2 on an Acer desktop with 2 gig of RAM. The computer is working fine and my internet connection seems quite normal. However, I just noticed that the little computer monitor icon that's supposed to be in the lower right hand corner of my display is not there. Normally when I hover over this icon a small indicator shows up saying I'm connected locally and to...

I have 4GB of physical RAM, windows vista shows only 3326MB. Does it really help with performance if I have 4GB or should I just install 3GB memory? I just bought the additional 2GB memory (had 2GB before) and wondering if I should exchange for a 1GB one. Thanks.

Im am properly pushing my luck running vista on a :- 2.8ghz processor 1gb ram 360 and a 80 Gb SATA hard drive 256 Video card

why no Windows 7 account or folder or category here yet? This is MS and they do not have Anything here about Win7?