Optimizing Vista

[Briantho]

Well, thank you all, particularly Steve and Bob, for all the tips. I've just taken delivery of a new Dell Studio 15 portable and apart from the loudspeaker sounding like an earpiece lying on a desk with volume turned up to max, several times over the last couple of days PE7 has died with a display problem. Unfortunately the 'recovery' message only appears for a short period of time before PE7 gets blown away. I'm hoping all these tuning etc ideas will at least reduce the frequency of that problem.

My wife's portable is a one year old Fujitsu Siemens with slightly inferior specs by comparison to the Dell and I never needed to 'tune' it - it has just worked for PE7 flawlessly.

I'm working round the Dell loudspeaker problem by having a speaker plugged into one of the headphone sockets otherwise editing would be out of the question. Obviously that problem will have to be addressed by a technician in the next few days. I'm really shocked that Dell sent out a machine with such an obvious fault.

[Steve Grisetti]

I think it goes without saying, Brian, that the first thing you should do is go to the Dell web site and download all of that model's updates!

There might well be several layers of Vista updates to download.