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just got new laptop ,running vista home
first impressions look good ,although takes an age to load up

the side bar gadgets are good although size of them rather big

icons were huge but found a way to make smaller to whatever size suits
running firefox on it and all ok at the min

just need to spend some time on it finding my way round

I got a new laptop a few weeks back and it also uses vista.

I normally hate laptops, but this one is fantastic and is 18.5 inch widescreen with high definition and blue ray etc.

This is a brilliant bit of kit and is so much better than my Toshiba- which I have given to the nephew. The new one is an acer and I can use the touch pad and keyboard with no problems. The battery life is also excellent.

A few programs that I have do not work with Vista, but I still think it is awesome

Foggy wrote:just got new laptop ,running vista home
first impressions look good ,although takes an age to load up

Use hibernate instead of full shutdown, it will start up a lot faster, although you will occasionally need to do a full restart.

One of the nice features in Vista is the search tool and on the down side there are a lot of device drivers and software that won't run on vista.

Regards,
KJ/

thanks kenjewel
yep use hibernate a lot but doing a full shutdown at night
although not tonight as you can see by the time of this post

struggling with sleeping this week ,have had a couple of days off work and its cocked up my sleep pattern

christ 18.5 screen chez thats normal desktop size