Vista - Issues with Vista

Setup:

Vista Business
Asus NCCL-DL
2 x Xeon 2.8GHz
2048 MB
Club3D AGP 8X nVidia 6600 (128-bit, 256 MB)

1. Vista won't keep 1280x1024 screen res

Everytime I boot, vista resets screen res to 1024x768 and I have to
manually set it back. I have installed latest nVidia drivers umpteen
times - very annoying.

2. When fiddling with start menu, I turned off 'Store and display a
list of recently opened files & programs'. I've turned it back on, but
Vista won't dispaly said list - annoying.

3. (Don't know if this is a Vista or Office 2007 issue), send and
recieve takes forever!!! Literally 5+ minutes. Under XP/2003 it took 30
seconds.

Can anyone please help with any of these issues

TIA

"e-l" <ear-lution@cwazyDOTcoDOTuk> wrote in message
news:%23GUUGPcfHHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Setup:
>
> Vista Business
> Asus NCCL-DL
> 2 x Xeon 2.8GHz
> 2048 MB
> Club3D AGP 8X nVidia 6600 (128-bit, 256 MB)
>
> 1. Vista won't keep 1280x1024 screen res
>
> Everytime I boot, vista resets screen res to 1024x768 and I have to
> manually set it back. I have installed latest nVidia drivers umpteen
> times - very annoying.
>
> 2. When fiddling with start menu, I turned off 'Store and display a list
> of recently opened files & programs'. I've turned it back on, but Vista
> won't dispaly said list - annoying.
>
> 3. (Don't know if this is a Vista or Office 2007 issue), send and recieve
> takes forever!!! Literally 5+ minutes. Under XP/2003 it took 30 seconds.
>
> Can anyone please help with any of these issues
>
> TIA

Go back to Windows XP. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

e-l wrote:
> Setup:
>
> Vista Business
> Asus NCCL-DL
> 2 x Xeon 2.8GHz
> 2048 MB
> Club3D AGP 8X nVidia 6600 (128-bit, 256 MB)
>
> 1. Vista won't keep 1280x1024 screen res
>
> Everytime I boot, vista resets screen res to 1024x768 and I have to
> manually set it back. I have installed latest nVidia drivers umpteen
> times - very annoying.
>
> 2. When fiddling with start menu, I turned off 'Store and display a
> list of recently opened files & programs'. I've turned it back on, but
> Vista won't dispaly said list - annoying.
>
> 3. (Don't know if this is a Vista or Office 2007 issue), send and
> recieve takes forever!!! Literally 5+ minutes. Under XP/2003 it took 30
> seconds.
>
> Can anyone please help with any of these issues
>
> TIA

4. 8 out of 10 shutdowns, Vista will re-boot. This is a real pain late
at night when i want to go to bed and I have to keep shutting down.
Eventually I usually do hard poweroff during boot - not good for hardware.

1. it maybe that the system resets the display to what it considers the native display setting for your card/monitor combination.

2.it may take a few days for it to populate the start menu selections.

3. no idea.

4.check event viewer for reasons to reboot. or under Reliability and Performance Monitor check Reliability Monitor for errors.



mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"e-l" <ear-lution@cwazyDOTcoDOTuk> wrote in message news:%23WhPmdcfHHA.3268@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
e-l wrote:
> Setup:
>
> Vista Business
> Asus NCCL-DL
> 2 x Xeon 2.8GHz
> 2048 MB
> Club3D AGP 8X nVidia 6600 (128-bit, 256 MB)
>
> 1. Vista won't keep 1280x1024 screen res
>
> Everytime I boot, vista resets screen res to 1024x768 and I have to
> manually set it back. I have installed latest nVidia drivers umpteen
> times - very annoying.
>
> 2. When fiddling with start menu, I turned off 'Store and display a
> list of recently opened files & programs'. I've turned it back on, but
> Vista won't dispaly said list - annoying.
>
> 3. (Don't know if this is a Vista or Office 2007 issue), send and
> recieve takes forever!!! Literally 5+ minutes. Under XP/2003 it took 30
> seconds.
>
> Can anyone please help with any of these issues
>
> TIA

4. 8 out of 10 shutdowns, Vista will re-boot. This is a real pain late
at night when i want to go to bed and I have to keep shutting down.
Eventually I usually do hard poweroff during boot - not good for hardware.

e-l wrote:
> 4. 8 out of 10 shutdowns, Vista will re-boot. This is a real pain
> late at night when i want to go to bed and I have to keep shutting
> down. Eventually I usually do hard poweroff during boot - not good
> for hardware.
================================
Maybe you have a problem with your BIOS.

(927393) You may experience power
management-related symptoms on a
computer that is running Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927393/en-us


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>> e-l wrote:
>> 4. 8 out of 10 shutdowns, Vista will re-boot. This is a real pain
>> late at night when i want to go to bed and I have to keep shutting
>> down. Eventually I usually do hard poweroff during boot - not good
>> for hardware.
> ================================
> John Inzer wrote:
> Maybe you have a problem with your BIOS.
>
Very unlikley, it wasn't behaving like this with XP - unless Vista
doesn't like some settings that XP was fine with...

> mikeyhsd wrote:
> 1. it maybe that the system resets the display to what it considers the
> native display setting for your card/monitor combination.
>
> 2.it may take a few days for it to populate the start menu selections.
>
> 3. no idea.
>
> 4.check event viewer for reasons to reboot. or under Reliability and
> Performance Monitor check Reliability Monitor for errors.
>
1. Definatly not the case, it is a 17" LCD display with 1280x1024 native
res.

2. Sorted this one

3. lol

4. These are not the system shutting itself down, but me wanting to
shutdown, where instead of actually shutting down - it re-boots

thx for trying though