Vista - any amount of problems.......

Well its been traumatic. I've had a new tablet PC (hp pavilion tx 1000) for a
little over 2 weeks and have never had so many problems - and i've been
through every windows upgrade since 3.1. Now that i have that off my chest....

My problems are:
Fairly regular crashes and blue screens (about 4 so far)
Systyem freezes - about 8
System will freeze on shut down (about 4 times)
excessively slow startup
........and general low speed (it took me 5 minutes to print the other day!).

This laptop has a pretty good spec - big old processor, 2 gig of ram.....

That is just the start of the problems - wirless not detecting things,
network connection problems (when i move from network to network).

....now i've found the resource monitor (pretty cool) and have noticed that
the cpu and the hard drive are going wild. Thats a start i guess - but would
love some guidance from here.

if not - thinking about seeing what will happen if i throw this out my
window from the 5th floor.

looking forward to any suggestions

"dramas dramas dramas" <dramas dramas dramas@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:84ED4BC7-D8FE-47A0-AC7E-A82D6A513E69@microsoft.com...
> Well its been traumatic. I've had a new tablet PC (hp pavilion tx 1000)
> for a
> little over 2 weeks and have never had so many problems - and i've been
> through every windows upgrade since 3.1. Now that i have that off my
> chest....


> looking forward to any suggestions

You'll probably ignore this, which is a shame but it's your problem at the
end of the day.

If the machine was purchased brand new with Vista installed as you imply
above, then I suggest you return it as faulty - what you describe *could* be
down to hardware issues as easily as anything else. Get a replacement from
them and if it still misbehaves, get a refund and buy a different model. The
only reason hardware and software manufacturers supply computers that don't
work properly is because people accept them that way.

On a new machine, you'll be running an OEM copy of Windows and the
responsibility for supporting it is down to the manufacturer / supplier,
which means it's their problem regardless of whether it is a hardware or
software issue.

In any case, you've purchased something brand new for a lot of money. If you
purchased a new car and it did the automotive version of behaving like this,
would you take it back to the garage? Of course you would. If you purchased
a new TV and it behaved like this, picture kept fading out, it kept
switching itself off, etc, would you take it back to the shop? Of course you
would. Why is a computer any different?

--
Robert Moir
http://www.rhymeswithgeek.com

"Robert Moir" <robspamtrap@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uHnUIbPZHHA.2320@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
Excellent points, Robert, specifically....

> If the machine was purchased brand new with Vista installed as you imply
> above, then I suggest you return it as faulty - what you describe *could*
> be down to hardware issues as easily as anything else. Get a replacement
> from them and if it still misbehaves, get a refund and buy a different
> model. The only reason hardware and software manufacturers supply
> computers that don't work properly is because people accept them that way.

Off-the-shelf computers, whether they're desktops, laptops or tablets, often
have lots of crap loaded on them. Sometimes the programs conflict with each
other and sometimes they conflict with the OS. Since you apparently do not
know if the same machine works flawlessly with XP, then it's too early to
blame Vista. It could be Vista IS the problem, but so far you haven't ruled
out alternative explanations for the problem.


> In any case, you've purchased something brand new for a lot of money. If
> you purchased a new car and it did the automotive version of behaving like
> this, would you take it back to the garage?

Or, would you blame the car's problems on the gasoline you filled it up
with?

In the first paragraph you talk about a tablet PC.

In the third paragraph you talk about a laptop - different animals. You also
state that the laptop has a big "OLD" processor. How old?

You are having problems with two different computers? Perhaps you installed
the same software on each one that is causing the problem?????

Calm down. Stop being so dramatic - and try to tell us exactly what is wrong
with each one, if in fact there are two involved.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User


"dramas dramas dramas" <dramas dramas dramas@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:84ED4BC7-D8FE-47A0-AC7E-A82D6A513E69@microsoft.com...
> Well its been traumatic. I've had a new tablet PC (hp pavilion tx 1000)
> for a
> little over 2 weeks and have never had so many problems - and i've been
> through every windows upgrade since 3.1. Now that i have that off my
> chest....
>
> My problems are:
> Fairly regular crashes and blue screens (about 4 so far)
> Systyem freezes - about 8
> System will freeze on shut down (about 4 times)
> excessively slow startup
> .......and general low speed (it took me 5 minutes to print the other
> day!).
>
> This laptop has a pretty good spec - big old processor, 2 gig of ram.....
>
> That is just the start of the problems - wirless not detecting things,
> network connection problems (when i move from network to network).
>
> ...now i've found the resource monitor (pretty cool) and have noticed that
> the cpu and the hard drive are going wild. Thats a start i guess - but
> would
> love some guidance from here.
>
> if not - thinking about seeing what will happen if i throw this out my
> window from the 5th floor.
>
> looking forward to any suggestions
>
>
>
>
>
>