Known bugs

[Hammaskejju]

Is there any place whre are listed known bugs of Windows Vista?

I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 and there is several annoying bugs,
which are present all the time.

The biggest bug is power managing with my laptop. At the system tray is
icon, which tells battery level and or wether the computer is connected to
external power. Somehow - in battery mode - the battery meter stops working,
and shows me the amount of battery life, what was before the error happens.
Now - when I'm writting this, the battery level is 76%. I'm pretty sure
there is less than 20% left, since I've been using this computer now for a
about a hour now. If I double-click the battery icon on system tray, the
power manager shows up with nothing inside the windows. Just empty windows
appears. After this there is not much to do... Killing the process won't
help. If I try to kill explorer.exe it just won't be killed.
The last thing is to restart computer. But when restarting, system halts
(not actually halt, but won't go further) and shows me just the blue screen
with "Logging out" -text.

Every driver in system exept audio driver is provded by Windows

There are few other buggs too, but I'll try to solve this one first.

 

[Guest]

1. Vista Installation may fail when multiple SATA/PATA drives are connected
requiring a boot from the installation DVD everytime you reboot.
Fix: Disconnect all but Drive 0 during installation.
Problem: No patch or update is going to fix the DVD.

2. Blue Screens of Death (BSODs) are set to automatically reboot preventing
the user from determining the problem.
Fix: Turn off the Auto-Reboot for system crashes.
Update drivers, when and if they become available.

3. Vista doesn't always recognize two processors are available.
Fix: MSCONFIG > Boot > Advanced > Detect HAL
Set checkmark and reboot.
Problem: Inconsistent response. Vista may fail to run detection
routine producing startup errors until checkmark is removed leaving the
machine with only one processor running.

4. UAC fails to prevent any user who answers the prompts with ALLOW from
installing malicious materials.
Fix: Administrator account must use a unique password.
Problem: Cumbersome for the Home User.
Even when ALLOW is desired, installation may not succeed
if sub-installations occur that write to the registry. No prompts are
provided, the installation simply fails.

5. Run as Administrator may set file permissions during installation of
Trusted ActiveX controls to "Special Permissions" preventing users from
running the control once installed.
Fix: Still trying to figure this one out.

Vista performs significantly different based on the underlying platform,
method of installation and version installed with the bugs listed above
allowing your machine to have no problems and mine unable to recognize the
second CPU or install something common, such as Flash Player.