Vista - Stops Working

By now it should be obvious that, under the Vista operating system, I have
Home Premium, there is a severe overall, general "has stopped working"
problem.

Thus far I've experienced:
"Internet Explorer has stopped working"
"Windows Explorer has stopped working"
"Word has stopped working"
"Sherlock Holmes Nemesis (Adventure Company) has stopped working"
"Outlook has stopped working"
"Acid 4.0 (Sony) has stopped working"
"Acid 6.0 (Sony) has stopped working"
"Sound Forge (Sony) has stopped working"

Is it not obvious by now that Vista has a problem, maybe a compatability
problem, with everything from Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word to third
party programs which cause programs, as I mentioned, even programs made by
Microsoft, to "stop working"?

Is there no an overall "stopped working" patch or something that Microsoft
has released by now?

Could it possibly be that Vista's OK, but every program that runs within its
system has suddenly gone bad, even those produced by Microsoft?

In looking through the forum, I see other users asking about certain
individual programs and applications that have "stopped working".

When I asked specifically about Word, I was told that there are probably
Word "temp" files on my computer that I needed to find and delete. However,
I purchased a brand new Gateway laptop and within a few days, Word stopped
working.

Are there Sony Acid temp files or Sherlock Holmes game temp files that my
wife or I have to find and delete?

I submit that there's a, and here's my non technical side coming out,
"glitch", for lack of a better non techie term, in Vista the operating system
that, if discovered and fixed via an update or a patch would be a general fix
for the very general "stopped working" problem.

When one is working under a deadline or one's work is time sensitive, one
can not be fighting programs which stop and start working over and over
again. And coming here and asking about every other program which "stops
working" is extremely time consuming and can be even expensive.

Please tell me that you've solved this problem, in general.

Thanks in advance.

Michael Bonanno
mandtbn@xxxxxx

"MichaelBN" <MichaelBN@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:57DAF210-DF12-4A2B-BA28-9926CBB38D44@xxxxxx
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There's a lot of truth in your observation, though these forums magnify the
problem. I believe Microsoft has reached a critical point as a company, and
Vista painfully mirrors the bloated, greedy and out-of-focus company that
spawned it.

I am running a high-horsepower computer, and Vista cruises along very well.
But Vista is a huge hairball of code. Some sections seem to run well, but
there may be parts that are patched and kludged together. How far can
software writers and MS push code complexity before the whole thing
collapses under it's own weight? I guess we will see, sports fans.

No, other than going back to WinXP. Vista is the Titanic. We shall see if
MS can keep it afloat.
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