The update that we got form our escalation Team is that this is a third party hardware issue and it would be very difficult to remotely resolve a problem on such a specific configuration, and in this case, we would not be able to address this issue now.
RRS although we did not provide the effective solution this time, we still want to let you know that we always strive to provide high-level support to our customers and hope you are happy with the whole process so far with this service request.
Based on the current situation, we will go ahead and temporarily archive this case.
Following is a summary of the key points for your records.
Action: You are trying to boot to desktop.
Results: booting to desktop takes mot of time.
Cause: Unknown
Resolution: As we were not able to resolve the issue, we are temporarily archiving this case. If you find any resolution, surely we would revert to you.

Till date they have not been able to provide a solution, on the phone they told me that I have a highend machine which is not generally used and hence MS do not and cannot help.

I tried Vista..for about a week ( all I could stand…lol) and went to XP…reason?….vista sucked, yeah even with 8Gb ram, I had to stop all of the UAC and IE's addons, IE kept locking up.

I got ahold of Win7 put it on a on a dedicated HDD and was switching back and forth between the 2 drives (XP Pro and Win7).

Now, I have been using Win7 for the last few weeks, alone…then getting files off the XP drive as I need them.

When I'm able to get 7 I will then use the RC7 as a slave drive then get the RC files onto the new OS.

7 runs sweet at (as of right now) 1.04GB being used (2X IE windows open, antivirus and Yahoo messenger).

Startup time takes less than 1/2 the time compared to XP Pro…shut down time is even faster.

The only trouble I am having is my new Kodak all in one will not print thru Win7 and I'm going to get with them on when they will have the drivers for it.

I've only had a few problems with 7 seeing the older games, but only a few…but more then Vista.

The only other "tweeks" that I do to all PCs is lowering the IE settings to 50 ( in browsing history settings) and get into the system startup folder and stopping unnessisary programs from running.

I hope this helps some of you.

Jim

I do have to say that it was my fault tho. I really didn't look at what Microsoft came up with on their update page. I just told it to download and install ALL the possible updates.

Well the touch screen part was in there. All of the sudden my computer wouldn't work at all. It wanted me to do everything by touching the screen instead of using my mouse.

Well I had a hell of a time trying to use the keyboard to do a system restore to get back to where I was.

It took me awhile but I did get it done. I have not read ANYTHING about windows 7 at all.

I have heard that it is going to be less of a hog. I wonder how much less of ram it will use?

I'm running Vista X64 right now and I do have 8 Gig of high speed ram installed and Vista X64 is using 2.18 of the 8 Gig that I have.

What is windows 7 going to use. Would it be something like only 2.0 Gig instead of 2.18? or maybe even 1.0 Gig instead of 2.18?

One may never know unless I run them side by side. I really don't know if i'm going to upgrade to windows 7 ever at all.

I might consider it if you can simply pop in the Windows 7 DVD and do a upgrade with out have to do a format and a new install.

I don't want to lose everything. I even heard at one time awhile ago that Vista X64 users were going to get windows 7 upgrade for free.

I really don't think that is ever going to happen so I think I'll save up what ever it is going to cost and say what the hell and go for it.

I do know that my system can handle anything that windows 7 can throw at it. Having a Intel Core 2 quad on a Gigabyte MOBO with 8 Gig of ram should be able to handle everything that windows 7 might throw at it.

I also don't know if there will be any difference between windows 7 64 bit drivers and Vista 64 Bit drivers.

There might be another wait for my other hardware vendors to come up with the windows 7 drivers. I had an Epson printer and after Vista X64 came out it was almost 6 months before Epson put out the drivers for my printer.

I really don't want to wait that long again. Well I hope for Microsoft's sake that windows 7 isn't a flop like everyone said Vista was.

I personly LOVE Vista X64. I have had it installed since Vista X64 came out and have had not a SINGLE problem with it.

Like I said before. I think that people that did have problems with it is because they were trying to run Vista X64 on an older machine and when they couldn't find drivers for it they blamed it on Microsoft.

Blame the vendors not Microsoft. The vendors knew when Vista was going to come out and they had plenty of time to get the drivers ready.