Insomnia

I already talked about my wife's Vista issues this but it is getting ridiculous.

She is self employed and each month she produces an invoice to the customer to eventually get paid. This is a simple procedure that involved the following steps:

1. Copy last month's invoice (word document) and rename the document
2. Open the new invoice and change the numbers/dates
3. Print the document
4. Save the document

Well. Using Vista... what used to take 10 minutes now takes almost an hour. Copying a file now in Windows is so difficult that it takes over 10 minutes just to copy the file. The file is 45Kb the simple Ctrl-C Ctrl-V to copy the file now requires Vista to spend minutes (an I am not exaggerating, this is a known bug) calculating how long it will take.

After this happens, you open the document in Word and edit it. That is still quick thank heavens. Once that is over, printing went ok as well.

Saving on the other hand was not that good. After pushing "save", Word complained that there was not enough space on the hard disk to save the file. The file is 45Kb and there is over 100G of space free on the hard disk. After much searching for a solution, we abandoned and closed the damned thing without saving.

Oh! and after that, the computer didn't shut down. (And I did wait for 20 minutes for the machine to shut down) I had to force a power down. I miss XP.

Labels: tech, Vista

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