My expierence with vista

I received a hp pavillion m7790e as a replacement for an unrepairable
computer. It came with vista and about the same time that vista first came
on the market. Everything appeared to work okay and I was in the learning
process when I discovered that the attachments in windows mail would not
open, forward, save , or do anything. After several hours on the phone and
with direct email contact with the factory reps, it was determined that I
needed to do a hard re-install. Since everything else appeared to work okay,
I decided to live without windows mail. I set up an outlook mail account for
my significant other, which I am very happy with and a thunderbird account
for myself which I am not so happy with. Both accounts functioned normally
and I could open save and send attachments. Now for the kicker. After
several months or a year of use, and many reboots, I re-booted one day and
got a message that windows could not start and did I want to restore to an
earlier time when it functioned okay. Of course I checked yes and after some
time I received another message that an error had occurred and a scan check
needed to be run. I clicked okay and the check ran, finished and a message
came up that said several "orphan" files were found and did I want to
restore them to the proper folder. After doing so the system started up and
everything was normal. I could see nothing different so I started checking
and lo and behold, my windows mail was now working fine with all attachments
opening okay and I could save, forward etc. I do not know what happened or
why but I guess the system repaired itself. Why it took so long may be a bug
that will eventually be worked out or maybe one of the updates to vista
fixed the problem, either way I believe vista is a far superior product to
anything else on the market including XP, Ubuntu, and Linux. and yes I have
tried them all. Vista like Xp in its infancy will have a few bugs but once
worked out I believe one will have the most reliable system ever. The
comments about the email problems are a statement of facts and if it is
helpful to anyone, then thats great, if not one only lost a couple of
minutes of time to read them. The other comments are my opinion and like
everyone else I am entitled to one. In summary I say give it a chance, you
may just like it.
Susan

I agree with you, Suze.

Give cancer a chance. You might find it's better than leukemia after
about a year.

Life could be worse: you could be a paraplegic with an iron lung.

Things are never as bad as they might seem. For instance, you could be a
9-year-old boy having a sleepover with Michael Jackson.

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:08:59 -0500, susan wrote:

> I received a hp pavillion m7790e as a replacement for an unrepairable
> computer. It came with vista and about the same time that vista first
> came on the market. Everything appeared to work okay and I was in the
> learning process when I discovered that the attachments in windows mail
> would not open, forward, save , or do anything. After several hours on
> the phone and with direct email contact with the factory reps, it was
> determined that I needed to do a hard re-install. Since everything else
> appeared to work okay, I decided to live without windows mail. I set up
> an outlook mail account for my significant other, which I am very happy
> with and a thunderbird account for myself which I am not so happy with.
> Both accounts functioned normally and I could open save and send
> attachments. Now for the kicker. After several months or a year of use,
> and many reboots, I re-booted one day and got a message that windows
> could not start and did I want to restore to an earlier time when it
> functioned okay. Of course I checked yes and after some time I received
> another message that an error had occurred and a scan check needed to be
> run. I clicked okay and the check ran, finished and a message came up
> that said several "orphan" files were found and did I want to restore
> them to the proper folder. After doing so the system started up and
> everything was normal. I could see nothing different so I started
> checking and lo and behold, my windows mail was now working fine with
> all attachments opening okay and I could save, forward etc. I do not
> know what happened or why but I guess the system repaired itself. Why it
> took so long may be a bug that will eventually be worked out or maybe
> one of the updates to vista fixed the problem, either way I believe
> vista is a far superior product to anything else on the market including
> XP, Ubuntu, and Linux. and yes I have tried them all. Vista like Xp in
> its infancy will have a few bugs but once worked out I believe one will
> have the most reliable system ever. The comments about the email
> problems are a statement of facts and if it is helpful to anyone, then
> thats great, if not one only lost a couple of minutes of time to read
> them. The other comments are my opinion and like everyone else I am
> entitled to one. In summary I say give it a chance, you may just like
> it.
>
Susan

sorry for my smart alecky remark below, as I thought your post was also that
:-)

Bill


"susan" <> wrote in message
news:c7wDi.239176$...
>I received a hp pavillion m7790e as a replacement for an unrepairable
>computer. It came with vista and about the same time that vista first came
>on the market. Everything appeared to work okay and I was in the learning
>process when I discovered that the attachments in windows mail would not
>open, forward, save , or do anything. After several hours on the phone and
>with direct email contact with the factory reps, it was determined that I
>needed to do a hard re-install. Since everything else appeared to work
>okay, I decided to live without windows mail. I set up an outlook mail
>account for my significant other, which I am very happy with and a
>thunderbird account for myself which I am not so happy with. Both accounts
>functioned normally and I could open save and send attachments. Now for the
>kicker. After several months or a year of use, and many reboots, I
>re-booted one day and got a message that windows could not start and did I
>want to restore to an earlier time when it functioned okay. Of course I
>checked yes and after some time I received another message that an error
>had occurred and a scan check needed to be run. I clicked okay and the
>check ran, finished and a message came up that said several "orphan" files
>were found and did I want to restore them to the proper folder. After doing
>so the system started up and everything was normal. I could see nothing
>different so I started checking and lo and behold, my windows mail was now
>working fine with all attachments opening okay and I could save, forward
>etc. I do not know what happened or why but I guess the system repaired
>itself. Why it took so long may be a bug that will eventually be worked out
>or maybe one of the updates to vista fixed the problem, either way I
>believe vista is a far superior product to anything else on the market
>including XP, Ubuntu, and Linux. and yes I have tried them all. Vista like
>Xp in its infancy will have a few bugs but once worked out I believe one
>will have the most reliable system ever. The comments about the email
>problems are a statement of facts and if it is helpful to anyone, then
>thats great, if not one only lost a couple of minutes of time to read
>them. The other comments are my opinion and like everyone else I am
>entitled to one. In summary I say give it a chance, you may just like it.
>
> Susan

susan wrote:
> After doing so the system started up and
> everything was normal. I could see nothing different so I started
> checking and lo and behold, my windows mail was now working fine with
> all attachments opening okay and I could save, forward etc. I do not
> know what happened or why but I guess the system repaired itself. Why
> it took so long may be a bug that will eventually be worked out or
> maybe one of the updates to vista fixed the problem...

Computers are becoming more human and, as with humans, some maladies take
longer to heal than others.

"susan" <> wrote in message
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> Of course I checked yes and after some time I received another message
> that an error had occurred and a scan check needed to be run. I clicked
> okay and the check ran, finished and a message came up that said several
> "orphan" files were found and did I want to restore them to the proper
> folder. After doing so the system started up and everything was normal.

Disk/file system errors are a sign of potential hardware problems.
The trouble is they can cause all sorts of odd things to happen and then
they can go away for a while before something new happens.
I suggest you run some diagnostics just to be sure its not a disk about to
fail.