I would seriously consider that the problem lies with the computer itself or
the manufacturer.
There are just to many Vista users not having those issues. Vista has some
issues any new OS would have. XP was no different when it was released.

Contact the manufacturer of the PC, or simply return the PC and get a
different one. I would recommend the HP Vista Laptops/PC's. I have one, I
dont have any of the issues you are having.

To be exact here is what I have on my Laptop (HP dv6275us).
I have Visual Studio C++, Visual Studio C#, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft
Flight Simulator 2004, SlingBox Pro, about 10 apps in the Sidebar, Direct X
SDK, Platform SDK, Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Earth and much more.

I use my laptop to develope software.

I have very few issues with my Vista Laptop and Desktop. My Vista Desktop PC
is a game PC, and I have many legacy games on it that run without issues.So
that is two Vista computers, that do not have issues.

Like I said I have come across a few issues, but nothing major.

Contact the manufacturer of the laptop and have them fix it, you are right,
the issues you are having a totally unacceptible. If it is new I would just
return it and get a different model or brand. Vista should work very well on
a new computer that is sold with it already installed.

I bought my laptop with Vista preinstalled and have a custom built desktop
that had XP on it and I installed Vista onto it. Both run very well, in fact
better than XP did. In fact the desktop has been running two weeks without a
reboot and has had Micrsoft Flight Simulator 2004 running the whole time.

G


"Keith Eckhardt" <keitheckhardt@comcast.net> wrote in message
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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