Hi Ricebus,
Welcome to the forum.
You might try Resetting IE7 to see if it will help you. You may have a add-on in IE7 that is causing it to not work properly. When you are done resetting, you can enable the add-ons one by one until you find out which one is causing the problem.
In IE7:
1. Click
Tools -
Internet Options
2. Click
Advanced
3. Click
Reset
To Enable/Disable the add-ons one by one:
1. Click
Tools -
Manage Add-ons -
Enable or Disable Add-ons
2. Under
Show, change this to see the other listings of add-ons.
3. Just dot
Enable or
Disable at the bottom.
For the other 32 bit programs, you might try running them in Compatibility Mode with
XP (SP2) to see if they will run better. This tutorial will show you how.
How to Use Compatibilty Mode in Vista
Hope this helps,
Shawn