Re: Troubles with Windows Vista

Could you give us the specs on your machine? Did you check the Event Viewer

to see if there are any messages relating to hardware failure? Have you

contacted the OEM about the problems you are experience with the machine?

--

Andre

Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com

My Vista Quickstart Guide:

http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry

"frustrated vista user" <frustrated vista user@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote in message news:5B2BFF18-5CFE-45E7-B87A-9433022A3410@microsoft.com...

>I recently bought a laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed on it. At

>first

> it was okay. But then I started encountering small problems with it. For

> instance, I couldn't launch my Media Player at all, then I resolved this

> by

> using the run as administrator option in the right-click menu. then I

> launched Internet Explorer, and I couldn't run games in Flash or Java.

> The

> same solution fixed that. Now my computer is acting extremely erratic. I

> tried backing up my files and performing a system restore, and it didn't

> help. After exhausting option after option, I finally chose to do a full

> restore to factory default, and now I cannot even log into the system

> without

> it taking ages to finally load. I cannot even restore my files I backed

> up

> because the DVD drive doesn't run. This operating system, in my opinion,

> totally sucks, and I would rather roll back to windows XP, but I can't

> even

> do that because of the wacky permissions of Vista still controlling the

> file

> system. I know that XP had problems when it was first launched, as well

> as

> other systems, but nothing like what I'm experiencing. I don't think that

> even after the service packs are released that I will ever like or even

> purchase Vista again. I've had too many problems with it and I'm about to

> purchase a new drive for my laptop and install XP on it. If there is

> anyone

> who can help me with this very serious problem that I'm having, please

> email

> me because I am at the end of my rope and I'm about to take a sledgehammer

> to

> my laptop.