XP Rules OK!

The Dell XPS M1210 laptop seems to like XP. Much more responsive! It was worth the hassle. If I were to do this again, I'd insist on XP when I bought it. Vista may come good eventually (they say there's a service pack coming out soon) but I think it will take some time.

Vista giving grief

Fed up with Windows Vista?
I got fed up with Vista on a new Dell laptop (XPS M1210) bought in April (2007) and so I have just put Windows XP Pro on it. The troubles I had --

• slow recovery from hibernation


• generally flakey graphics (the Dell laptop has a fairly standard graphics card) especially after emerging from hibernation


• reverting to completely unacceptable graphics (monochrome or 16 colours only) when connecting to a display projector


• far too much protection; Vista won't let you do anything even if you do know what you are doing


• slow to connect to WIFI (I don't know whether that is Vista's fault or the XPS's)

This does mean that until we get a new Windows Vista service pack, I won't be able to test WS5 on Vista.

Unwanted columns question

I got this message:
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Is there an easy way to adjust the program so that the results show only the word and frequency without showing the other columns of results? I have to delete those--we only use the word list and the frequency information.
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The answer -- in Settings | Adjust Settings | Concord | What you see, uncheck those you don't want to see usually. Then save your settings.

Cheers from Salamanca -- Mike