Vista Home Premium

[Alan]

Hi,
I had to buy a new machine last March because my old one with XP developed
fatal problems and repairs were not viable costwise. I was perfectly happy
with my old one but needs must.
The new one (Packard Bell, Intel Core 2 CPU, 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM) with Vita Home
Premium worked OK when I first got it after the normal teething troubles but
it used to drive me mad with the hard drive constantly whirring away and the
CPU usage meter showing never less than 50%, often over 90%. It would do
this with nothing open at all, just the desktop showing. This would go on
for hours on end until it finally stabilised. This went on for four months
or so.
When the machine was just left on and everything was calm as one would
expect with just the desktop active, it would suddenly burst into life as if
number crunching for NASA for no apparent reason. No scheduled virus, defrag
or malware programs were set to run automatically.
I posted a couple of questions on here, but although I got potentially
useful replies, no firm advice was given and I did nothing to the machine.
Lately when I boot the machine up, after two or three minutes it settles
down calmly just like my old XP machine used to do.
Why should this happen? I noticed when I first started to use the machine
that each and every time I turned it on there were Windows Updates waiting
to be installed. Surely if that amount of Updates were required then Vista
must have been released prematurely before it was fit for purpose. Or could
there be another reason for this illogical machine behavior?
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Alan.

 

[DP]

Off-topic: Just curious -- where, roughly, do you live? You don't have to be
super-specific, just general. Like Canada? Europe? Latin America?

Only reason I ask is because I thought Packard Bell died years ago, at least
in the US. I had one or two of their machines, sometime in the previous
century.

 

[Alan]

Just shows who uninformed / stupid you are. Packard Bell machines are sold
by the hundreds of thousands.
I won't tell you where, you can Google it to find out if you know how to do
that. (which I doubt)
Regards,
Alan

 

[DP]

Thanks, Alan. It was just a simple friendly question.
I don't know why you got so bent out of shape about it.
Did insulting me bring you to climax? Just asking.

 

[DP]

Well, gee now, lookie here.
"In 1999, NEC began withdrawing the Packard Bell name from the U.S. market,
while keeping it in Europe, where the brand was untainted by allegations of
shoddy quality.....
"While Packard Bell vanished from the U.S. market in 2000, it continues to
be a popular brand in Europe as Packard Bell Europe (PBE) and holds third
place in terms of consumer sales."

That's from Wikipedia. I'll let you search for it.
So, Packard Bell is NOT sold in the US, which was the point of my post.
Alan, I think this makes you look pretty stupid.

 

[Mick Murphy]

I'm running vista home premium on a 6yo Packard Bell.
Is that any help?????

 

[Alan]

Hi DP,
I didn't send that reply. I was mortified just now when I saw it. I can only
presume that one of my idiot colleagues sent it as joke to embarrass me
while I was out of the office.
Please accept my apologies. I would never send a rude and insulting reply
like that to what was, as you rightly said, a friendly response. I'll make
sure I lock my computer when I'm away from it in future.
Please Google my email address, you'll find hundreds of question and replies
to MS newsgroups, mainly the Excel groups and not one of them is rude and
insulting like that one sent to you. (Apart from one or two when someone's
been rude to me first).

I'm in the UK, a great deal of the new machines sold by PC World here are
Packard Bell.

Sorry again,

Alan.