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When a friend of mine relayed another impassioned plea for laptop buying advice my way, I fired back a very venemous anti-Vista message. Avoid it at all costs, I said, even pay more to get XP! My own Vista laptop simply doesn't feel as powerful as my XP-based work laptop with significantly weaker specs. Plus I had a crash recently when trying to install -- not even play -- Diablo II.

Here's an article that actually takes all of the Vista venom in stride and teaches you how to handle the biggest annoyances users complain about with Microsoft's latest and greatest workstation OS. The author goes to great pains to distance himself from Microsoft by citing Microsoft's own attacks on his other written works and citing some level of impartiality, but he also calls a spade a spade by claiming that most anti-Vista venom is not much different from the bile spewed at Windows XP before it.

It's always good to get some history with your technical advice, and the article delivers. Check it out and how it helps you overcome some problems with Vista at the source link below. I used it to solve the folder settings issue and tweak the search settings, and overall learn more about what Vista's doing when the drive light doesn't seem to go off. Maybe it'll help you too.

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My Samsung YP-MT6Z music player has been a fun little device to have around. It plays MP3's and Ogg Vorbis files, has an FM tuner, can record from that tuner on a timer, can record from line-in and a voice mic, and is powered by a single AA battery that makes up the majority of its size and weight. It also likes to corrupt its firmware fairly often, typically whenever the battery needs to be changed.