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[harry12]

May I remind those who ask questions to provide full details of their hardware and OS version?

When you are in deep trouble it is tempting to shout "help" but there are so many issues it really helps if you help yourself by providing the best info.

In particular:- when the fault appeared...was it always there?....did the PC work up until you dropped it? Etc. etc.

VISTA....I'm waiting for it to settle and may buy a PC with it installed. In the UK it's nearly twice the US-price......that's really expensive and so I want to be sure it's worth it - and what hardware I have isn't overloaded. Fortunately hardware gets cheaper year-on-year...unfortunately as software gets worse, it is more expensive.
I've heard there was a Vista-fiasco over speech recognition. The problem seems to be that you cannot write the sentence "Delete this sentence" because Microsoft didn't think this would be a good test...well I suspect there will be other issues, but this is a good'un for a start.

LINUX would be a competitor but has issues with installing and some programs like PDF which are commercial and therefore you have to install these yourself.....JAVA is another which I've had immense difficulty with ( indeed it never has worked)....and you can only blame Sun for this...but they may fear losing their income, so they provide only minimal support. It stops me from using Linux - isn't that crazy?

LINUX does have great strength, with "permissions" so you can only fiddle with the OS if you enter a password - this has saved many users......and it is said to be the reason why spam /spyware can't operate...

That's enough, I'll go to sleep presently....