After you installed Ultimate you installed the correct drivers from the
Laptop manufacturers site, and didnt rely on Vista default drivers, or Win
update drivers?
Of course you dont mention versions of Adobe and whether you've checked
their sites for any patches.
Or any error msgs, that may show in Event Viewer

"I'ecus Wilson" <iecus@rcn.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone, I have a friend of mine who has a quad core pc that he
> bought running vista home premium and he was running some video editing
> programs such as pinnacle and adobe. Ever since we did a clean install and
> take it up to Ultimate the programs freeze sometimes or they will just
> crash. Can anyone suggest what we should do? i'm thinking about taking him
> back to the home premium.
>
> This has alot happen at my job where some office who has a quad server
> with business will freeze or crash, we thought maybe out program couldn't
> handle the quad because not all software is build with good multi thread
> programming. We thought it was our program until I did this for a friend.
>
> I'ecus W