"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.[/color]

Vista has a lot of cracks and holes in it, but I've not seen these before
myself.

Have you considered that you may have a faulty laptop, or that software
pre-loaded by the manufacturer might be contributing to these problems? (I'm
assuming you've ruled out everything you've done as the cause of the
issues).