SP1 Fixed My Vista Problem

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I have discussed the one major problem that I have had with Microsoft Vista.  For no apparent reason, my ability to right-click randomly stops working.  The problem continues until I close Internet Explorer.  Often closing it doesn’t work and I have to end the IE process from the Task Manager.

In the last week this problem has seemed to happen more each day.  On Monday I had to kill IE more than ten times.  I can live with once or twice a day, but not multiple times each hour.

I was anxious to download SP1 when it became available yesterday.  It took an hour to install, but I think it fixed my right-click problem.  So far (knock on wood) I haven’t had to restart IE one time.

I don’t know if IE was actually upgraded as part of the service pack.  I didn’t look before the upgrade, but now I have version 7.0.6001.1888CO.  I will check my other machine running Vista sans-SP1 to see if the version is different.

Suddenly I don’t like XP as much.

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3 Responses to SP1 Fixed My Vista Problem

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  2. John Rundag says:
    March 20, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    SP1 fixed my problem too. My problem was copying data to or from a network drive was very slow. it seemed much quicker today.

  3. Pam Petersen says:
    March 31, 2008 at 11:17 pm

    I have been using windows mail on vista for almost 1 year with an extra AVG professional anti-virus add on. My problem is around Jan. this year I suddenly could not open attachments. I have recently discovered I cannot put them in a document and open them either as I get an error message. I am getting automatic updates and after reading this blog, wondered if this is something which I must look for and install on my own and if it will help my problem. I can right click and open the file on the attachment but cannot copy it. My son-in-law turned me on to your blog and while I do not understand it all, I find it very interesting and informative as a former Ohio resident familiar with BW and the NE Ohio area.