M
Mark
God, I am getting sick and tired of how crappy Vista is! I used to recommend
it to people, but now I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Here's the latest nonsense: all of a sudden my Lenovo T60 laptop has started
misbehaving, badly:
1) Control Panel is EMPTY.
2) Administrative tools, which are supposed to be showing up on both the All
Programs menu and the Start menu don't show up anywhere.
3) Opening up Computer causes a very long scan of some kind to start. I can
see a green progress bar growing behind the path information at the top of
the window. While this scan is taking place NOTHING ELSE WORKS in the system.
In other words, it totally locks up.
4) Same thing happens when, for example, I right click on Control Panel and
try to open it as a window (i.e., green bar crawling across the top of the
window). When it's done, the Control Panel window is EMPTY.
5) At random times the system appears to lock up. I can't open the Start
menu, I can't right click on the task bar and bring up the Task Manager, nada.
I've run a full disk check. No problems. This system used to be reasonably
well behaved (it is a piece of plain vanilla hardware, after all).
Any advice or suggestions on how to get this piece of garbage working again
would be much appreciated.
- Mark
p.s. to Microsoft: I am never, ever going to install a new version of your
OS on any hardware I run until it has been "in production" and used by a
bunch of other slobs for at least two years. And that applies not only to my
personal equipment, but also the hardware I oversee in my role as CFO. Why?
Because the never-ending series of problems with Vista has convinced me that
you've lost your way, and don't know how to produce reliable software
anymore. This stuff just has to work; it can't require full-time babysitting.
No one except a few flagellants runs operating systems just to run them; the
vast majority of us run them >>to get work done<<. And when the OS is
unreliable, that's impossible!
it to people, but now I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Here's the latest nonsense: all of a sudden my Lenovo T60 laptop has started
misbehaving, badly:
1) Control Panel is EMPTY.
2) Administrative tools, which are supposed to be showing up on both the All
Programs menu and the Start menu don't show up anywhere.
3) Opening up Computer causes a very long scan of some kind to start. I can
see a green progress bar growing behind the path information at the top of
the window. While this scan is taking place NOTHING ELSE WORKS in the system.
In other words, it totally locks up.
4) Same thing happens when, for example, I right click on Control Panel and
try to open it as a window (i.e., green bar crawling across the top of the
window). When it's done, the Control Panel window is EMPTY.
5) At random times the system appears to lock up. I can't open the Start
menu, I can't right click on the task bar and bring up the Task Manager, nada.
I've run a full disk check. No problems. This system used to be reasonably
well behaved (it is a piece of plain vanilla hardware, after all).
Any advice or suggestions on how to get this piece of garbage working again
would be much appreciated.
- Mark
p.s. to Microsoft: I am never, ever going to install a new version of your
OS on any hardware I run until it has been "in production" and used by a
bunch of other slobs for at least two years. And that applies not only to my
personal equipment, but also the hardware I oversee in my role as CFO. Why?
Because the never-ending series of problems with Vista has convinced me that
you've lost your way, and don't know how to produce reliable software
anymore. This stuff just has to work; it can't require full-time babysitting.
No one except a few flagellants runs operating systems just to run them; the
vast majority of us run them >>to get work done<<. And when the OS is
unreliable, that's impossible!