I think that the best advice for ordinary users is never to buy any new platform (XP, Vista etc) from Microsoft until at least a year after its launch in order to allow time for the major bugs to be ironed out. Also remember to ensure that any computer that you buy has the latest version of the platform installed This advice is less applicable to computer experts who will love all the new facilities that each new Microsoft platform brings and will often know how to overcome any difficulties that they come across. Kind regards Roger ----- Original Message ---- From: TERENCE MORLEY <t.roym@btinternet.com> To: SFHG-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, 25 April, 2008 8:07:35 AM Subject: Re: [SFHG] Reply : Vista Hi Judy I think that's very poor advice, if people was to stop and think when XP first come out The amount of problems was far superior to problems on the vista,( when first coming out) As for sleep mode on vista you just simply switch sleep mode off how easy is that, Terry Judy Excell <JudyW.Excell@ntlworld.com> wrote: I was advised to steer away from Vista Home and make sure it is Vista Professional if I have to have a new computer. Possibly most troubles are for those who upgrade their 98 or XP to Vista rather than having a PC with Vista in the first place. Judy Excell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael J Snatt" To: "JENNIFER FORD" ; "Graham.Noyce" ; ; ; ; Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [SFHG] Marriage Index CD and Vista Jennifer - Vista has its faults, but not enough to worry about. Youy do need loads of memory (RAM), however, and I would recommend that you also buy a memory Stick, which can act as supplementary RAM as well as being a convenient backup medium. I got mine from Amazon at less than £20 for 8GB. The most annoying feature of Vista, in my experience, is the tendency to switch itself off when you use the 'Sleep' command, which means you lose anything you haven't remembered to save. As I had Windows 98 before I upgraded, it took a time to get used to, but now I wouldn't want anything else. Best wishes - Mike Snatt ----- Original Message ----- From: JENNIFER FORD To: Graham.Noyce ; JeanAUK@aol.com ; austengenealogy@iprimus.com.au ; bridgetmeads@btinternet.com ; SFHG-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [SFHG] Marriage Index CD and Vista Oh dear - I'm on the verge of buying a new laptop and all those I've seen so far have Vista on them. What do other listers advise? Jenny 11474 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html