I thought it was nice, however, that Microsoft includes a tool with Vista to show you just how crappy of an experience it is. It's called the "Reliability Monitor" and it is a running graph that plots your system stability on a scale of 1-10. My system started off from the factory at an 8.92 (even Lenovo can't get this machine to a 10) and has tanked ever since.
As of yesterday, my system was rating itself as a 1.62 out of 10. It will probably be even worse tomorrow since I've already had Firefox crash on me about 6 times as well as Windows Explorer freeze and require a hard reset.
(note: you'll have to excuse the pasted-together image, but Windows only lets you see about 3 weeks at a time on the graph. I stitched the past two months together into one image)
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Well, it HAS been 2 months... your computer is getting old. Why not upgrade to a newer model? ;)
Back on 2/15 I uninstalled the shock protection software from Lenovo. This software monitors the forces on the hard drive and knows if the computers is being dropped. Theoretically, it shuts down the hard drive to prevent damage.
I realized, however, the the majority of the time my computer locked up was after transporting it from one room to another and that the shock monitoring software was a likely culprit.
Since uninstalling that software, my computers stability index has climbed to 5.68. Not remarkable...still not a passing grade - but much better than before.
Also, I have Vista SP1 now, and I have had very few problems in the past few weeks. Looks like my Vista experience is starting to get a tad better.
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