"Keith Eckhardt" <keitheckhardt@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OZmtwpLkHHA.4248@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I bought a laptop with Vista Home installed. What a mistake.
>
> 1) I used the MS program to transfer settings and files. Oops, lots of
> files didn't make it. Had to use other utilities to finish the job.
> Also, when it copied Outlook Express it copied all my single folders, but
> not the one that had sub-folders. Now what do I do?
>
> 2) Every time I close Windows Mail it crashes. Then every time I start it
> up again it processes every message in every folder. I'm guessing it is
> creating the indexes that it doesn't save when it crashes at close time.
>
> 3) The sidebar crashed and doesn't come back at re-boot. I don't really
> miss it, but it's un-nerving to have it crash.
>
> Vista seems to have been released more than a bit early.
>
> Keith[/color]

Since this is a new purchase you need to contact the manufacture you
purchased it from. There is no reason for those apps to crash out of the
box.