I had another Windows Vista SP1 issue, it was sort of my fault, I removed a USB device without using the safely remove hardware icon  in the taskbar.

Windows 2000 used to gracefully give you a message when you removed USB devices but my  Windows Vista ultimate SP1 laptop just blue screened and rebooted.

Boot times are painfully slow and this is on a machine with a Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz, 7200 RPM hard disk and 2gig of ram and only core applications like Office and Anti-Virus installed.

A couple of positive things.

1) Microsoft are offering free technical support to customers with SP1 issues. the number in the US is toll-free and is (866)-234-6020, I will try and locate the UK equivalent.

2) Windows Vista SP1 has made some changes to Remote Desktop that are nice. Nice for anyone who uses Remote Desktop/Terminal Services as much as I do.

When I get a spare couple of hours I am going to install Windows Vista on another machine in a clean install, as I don’t seem to be any more stable now that I was pre SP1.

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