Did you call Acer and report the problem?
"Silvabod" <nospam@thank.you> wrote in message
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> My brand-new Acer Aspire M5100 pc, 2 gig RAM, pre-installed Vista Home
> Premium had a fatal crash, so a complete disk format/reinstall from the
> hidden disk partition via Acer's "Empowering Technology" was done. I have
> no OS disk.
>
> Then, I uninstalled the bundled demo progs (Office 2007, Norton, etc) and
> did full updates. My AV is AVG 7.5 (not 8, which is documented as giving
> problems).
>
> Despite all this, IE7 continues to be "flaky", has never run correctly.
> (before and after SP1).
>
> I have 2 meg rated cable, yet downloads (from any source, incl MS) are
> continually hanging, to the point where memories of dial-up come to haunt
> me. Tests on PCPitstop report download/upload within a few % of ISP's
> claims (1.83mb down, 186 kb up being the norm). A "definitions" download
> of 1.2mb took nearly 4 minutes, and the 66mb Vista SP1 took half an hour.
>
> Further - IE7 totally crashes when trying to print a web page. Fault
> report says it's with mshtml.dll, but the only MSN site report I found on
> this is one I read for 10 minutes before realising it was for XP and
> earlier, not Vista. IE7's "online search for solution" does nothing
> except delay the restart of itself.
>
> I'm not a novice - my "old" pc is still running the original installation
> of XP with few problems and no crashes (and I date back to the dark ages
> of Win3.1 in maintaining home pc's for the family).
>
> Rather than waste a further 3 days on another new installation, updates,
> drivers etc ... can I just install IE7 as a "clean" install. Is this
> possible? if so, where is the source file?
>
> If not, will Vista allow a non-MS browser to replace it, without creating
> yet more problems?