I 2 have Vista Home on a new laptop, an el cheapo Acer 3280 for $300 with
512M and its rock solid. I upgrade to 1G, and its a champ today.

However, I do think Vista is not entirely its made up to be, and that's
bullet proof.

[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/e[/url]
asytransfer.mspx

If you think the transfer screwed things up, the simplest and best thing
to do is:

Restore point to before the install OR

use the system disks to restore the machine to factory settings

If the above works and your machine is stable factory version, then
install your programs one by one from scratch rather than use the easy
transfer.


"Keith Eckhardt" <keitheckhardt@comcast.net> wrote in
news:OZmtwpLkHHA.4248@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
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> 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
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