This is ridiculous. It now takes minutes between key presses to type words. I
went and made coffee while waiting for the machine to type '0109' And it
eventually typed '00109'.
Everything is now 'not responding'. I have to exit the TV just to regain

Greetings. I have purchased a new desktop (a 64 bit Dell XPS 430)
that will come with a Vista Home Premium. The desktop will
have one user.
I plan to partition its HD using a tool like pmagic. Partition C

I installed SP2 for Vista when it came out.
I created a new user account today.
I opened Windows Media Player 11 and it started with Welcome to Window Media Player 11 for Vista window.
It wants me to Choose the initial setting... Express or Custom.

Can anyone tell me how to turn off Microsoft narrator it's driving me mad?

Not strictly Vista related but....
Has anyone noticed problems using Facebook since IE8? (the problem may be
their end but it seemed to coincide with IE8)
2 things spring to mind.

I run vista 32 home premium. My Pc was having blue screen errors. I ran
every test that my pc could run ad everything passed. I was still having
crashes so I decided to do a system recovery hoping that it would fix
the problem. After doing a back up and system recovery the pc ...

A bunch of photo's show wrong thumbnail images (they were edited/rotated). In
XP you were able to refresh the thumbnails. How do you do that in Vista?

I have a new i7 (a quad core with HT - for 8 threads) computer and I have
been running Windows 7 on it. I have not run Vista on it yet. I had Vista
with my previous computer, a Pentium 4 with HT. As I recorded TV with Vista
on my older computer, the time to display the list of TV ...

Dell Vostro; bios & chipset updated, Vista Business updated
No other hw connected, no background tasks running, printer switched off,
sys runs 24/7
Ever since installing a usb connected HP photo printer (includes scanner) -

Hi. I am currently running Windows vista home premium 64 bit operating
system, and for some strange reason I can not install anything on my
computer. I thought it could be some malicious programming so I full
system recovery'd my computer back to factory settings, but I still have

When I bring up a news group, it runs out of control with the sidebar
running all the way to the bottom.  And I can't bring it back to the top.
The only way I can do this is to unplug my USB plug which controls the
mouse.  Once I do that I can pull the sidebar back up to the top ...

interesting comment
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/06/03/creating-saving-sharing-themes-in-wi
ndows-7.aspx
of course i agree with all criticisms with vista the sht OS
# Windows Vista and Seven are less customizable than XP.

Every since I put on Internet Explorer 8 my Internet stops and goes, stops
and goes. I sure would like to put back Internet Explorer 7.

i created my partition and burned the iso file.....
DVD won't do anything from within vista 32, so i restarted and booted
from the DVD, it loaded some files and then stuck on a very nice
screen for 5 minutes. no activity from the DVD whatsoever. so i pulled

two separate, but inter-related stories.
1. A few months ago we had a visitor stay from Europe (I am in Perth,
Australia) so I decided to 'hide' my files (kept on a separate D drive) so
that IF he wanted to use my PC he wouldn't see them.