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susan
I received a hp pavillion m7790e as a replacement for an unrepairable
computer. It came with vista and about the same time that vista first came
on the market. Everything appeared to work okay and I was in the learning
process when I discovered that the attachments in windows mail would not
open, forward, save , or do anything. After several hours on the phone and
with direct email contact with the factory reps, it was determined that I
needed to do a hard re-install. Since everything else appeared to work okay,
I decided to live without windows mail. I set up an outlook mail account for
my significant other, which I am very happy with and a thunderbird account
for myself which I am not so happy with. Both accounts functioned normally
and I could open save and send attachments. Now for the kicker. After
several months or a year of use, and many reboots, I re-booted one day and
got a message that windows could not start and did I want to restore to an
earlier time when it functioned okay. Of course I checked yes and after some
time I received another message that an error had occurred and a scan check
needed to be run. I clicked okay and the check ran, finished and a message
came up that said several "orphan" files were found and did I want to
restore them to the proper folder. After doing so the system started up and
everything was normal. I could see nothing different so I started checking
and lo and behold, my windows mail was now working fine with all attachments
opening okay and I could save, forward etc. I do not know what happened or
why but I guess the system repaired itself. Why it took so long may be a bug
that will eventually be worked out or maybe one of the updates to vista
fixed the problem, either way I believe vista is a far superior product to
anything else on the market including XP, Ubuntu, and Linux. and yes I have
tried them all. Vista like Xp in its infancy will have a few bugs but once
worked out I believe one will have the most reliable system ever. The
comments about the email problems are a statement of facts and if it is
helpful to anyone, then thats great, if not one only lost a couple of
minutes of time to read them. The other comments are my opinion and like
everyone else I am entitled to one. In summary I say give it a chance, you
may just like it.
Susan
computer. It came with vista and about the same time that vista first came
on the market. Everything appeared to work okay and I was in the learning
process when I discovered that the attachments in windows mail would not
open, forward, save , or do anything. After several hours on the phone and
with direct email contact with the factory reps, it was determined that I
needed to do a hard re-install. Since everything else appeared to work okay,
I decided to live without windows mail. I set up an outlook mail account for
my significant other, which I am very happy with and a thunderbird account
for myself which I am not so happy with. Both accounts functioned normally
and I could open save and send attachments. Now for the kicker. After
several months or a year of use, and many reboots, I re-booted one day and
got a message that windows could not start and did I want to restore to an
earlier time when it functioned okay. Of course I checked yes and after some
time I received another message that an error had occurred and a scan check
needed to be run. I clicked okay and the check ran, finished and a message
came up that said several "orphan" files were found and did I want to
restore them to the proper folder. After doing so the system started up and
everything was normal. I could see nothing different so I started checking
and lo and behold, my windows mail was now working fine with all attachments
opening okay and I could save, forward etc. I do not know what happened or
why but I guess the system repaired itself. Why it took so long may be a bug
that will eventually be worked out or maybe one of the updates to vista
fixed the problem, either way I believe vista is a far superior product to
anything else on the market including XP, Ubuntu, and Linux. and yes I have
tried them all. Vista like Xp in its infancy will have a few bugs but once
worked out I believe one will have the most reliable system ever. The
comments about the email problems are a statement of facts and if it is
helpful to anyone, then thats great, if not one only lost a couple of
minutes of time to read them. The other comments are my opinion and like
everyone else I am entitled to one. In summary I say give it a chance, you
may just like it.
Susan
