Re: Troubles with Windows Vista

Contact the laptop manufacturer for support.

Your problems go beyond Windows Vista and may be a bad install or

hardware related.

"I would rather roll back to windows XP"

Not an option since Windows Vista is preinstalled.

Since it is not an option, "wacky permissions" has nothing to do with

it.

If the computer is new, you can return it for a refund and purchase a

laptop with Windows XP if that is what you want.

Toshiba, Dell and probably other major OEMs continue to sell computers

with Windows XP.

--

Jupiter Jones [MVP]

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar

http://www.dts-l.org

"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.