DId you ever find a solution to this problem? I have started experencing this
also.
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I found that after using Vista for a while, it seems to start losing its desktop
settings and various Registry settings. Especially if you start "tweaking" the
OS using hardly-ready tweaker tools.
I kept losing my ATI drivers on shut-down some how, and when I started up, I
encountered the infamous "win32k.sys" BSOD because Vista couldn't find the video
driver anymore. After encountering this error several times, and going back in
through Safe Mode and restoring the driver or Vista (or the last known good
configuration), I eventually was not even able to do that anymore, since even
Safe Mode would not start.
This might be because Vista's shut down code is not quite up-to-snuff, and fails
to SAVE your settings/Register every once in a while (probably caused by
failing to flush out the System caches properly on shut-down because of
Microsoft's desire to shut the System down quickly because of user-complaints
from previous versions of Windows). XP had this problem (and still does) for
a long time. Microsoft has STILL not fixed it in the last 6 years. Hopefully,
they will be willing to endure the complaints of the few "power users" in order
to make sure Vista shuts down properly this time around for the MAJORITY.
If any Microsoft engineers are reading this, PLEASE fix this problem, and don't
take 6 years to do it?
A long time ago, I learned a very valuable lesson: It's BETTER to have a
well-running (that is, PEACEFUL) edifice than it is to have the "the best" one,
since more customers will keep coming back to a well-run edifice, but WON'T
necessarily come back to the "best" one. Let's face it: It's the ones who keep
coming back year after year who make us the greatest profit, not the ones who
spend a few bucks more than everyone else every few years.
If the "best one" has rude waiters who are always being pushed to be faster or
more "efficient", or have high-prices, only the "High Rollers" will go there
consistently. The only places where "High Rollers" make money for the
organization are casinos, because they spend more money losing to the house than
they do when receiving "comps" from the Management (which don't make them a
dime).
Hear this, Microsoft:
Most of us want a "Well-running" OS, rather than one which is very " fancy and
high-falutin' ".
The "fancy" is ok, and (sometimes) can be "icing on the cake", but PLEASE don't
give us a "fancy" OS at the price of a "well-running" one.
Donald L McDaniel
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