Vista and Me

[billroper]

Well, downloading Vista Service Pack 2 didn't make the occasional tendency of my main office computer here at home to hang up in Windows Explorer so that you can't start any new programs go away. If it did this all the time, I'd be at wits end, but a reboot usually cures the problem.

My latest attempt to fix the problem led me to read through the event log and remove the "Bonjour Service". Given that it was installed by Adobe Creative Suite 3 and this is both the only computer with CS3 installed on it and the only computer with this particular problem gives me hope.

We'll see if it works.

Eventually.

Since the problem is intermittent. *sigh*

Comments

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Gawd, I hate Vista. Literally, the only reason I haven't expunged it from my laptop entirely is the hope that upgrading to Windows 7 will be relatively simple with Vista still there. The freakin' hardware doesn't seem to like Ubuntu, and there are too many funky driver hacks needed to make it work with XP (especially to the sound drivers, and given that sound would be kinda the point of the exercise...).

[alymid.livejournal.com]

I have found Vista to be excellently stable and have a full CS3 suite on it. The Bonjour services sometimes come with the apple software Itunes/Quicktime etc. So if it is what is causing your problem you'll want to keep an eye out on your Apple updater.

[hms42]

Which has an update to iTunes and Quicktime this evening...

[drawshad.livejournal.com]

I cannot wait until Windows 7 comes out. I'm so frustrated with Vista.

[kyril.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what she said, Bonjour is from Apple. And there's almost as much FUD about itunes messing things up as there is about Vista messing things up.

[poltr1]

I ran Vista on a desktop at work for 9 months. I soon got used to it. But the clincher was when it wouldn't run Eclipse. That's when I rolled back to XP.