It's me again...my whine of the day

So, I have decided I hate Vista. If there were any financially responsible/possible way that we could revert to XP on our laptops, I would totally do it.

We have the inconvience of when internet explorer (often) stops working and decides to reset itself. This is irritating in any circumstance, but particularly when doing research or something where you don't KNOW the sites you were just on. Then you get to go through the process of finding everything again. And while this is a HUGE pain and inconvienent, this is not the reason I am posting (maybe posting, if IE doesn't decide to have a "problem").

The reason I am posting is that Vista appears to have issues with wirelessly connected printers. At LEAST once a week, my computer either loses my printer entirely (seriously, it just vanishes) or else my printer cannot be run any way other than "offline". When it's "offline" it will not print. And, the majority of the time, it does not give me the option to put it "online". At that point, I have to UNINSTALL my printer and then reinstall it. This process takes about 30 minutes out of my day, generally when I'm in a hurry and need something printed (otherwise I wouldn't likely realize the printer crisis).

Of course, this is the issue today. I am sitting down at my computer, getting ready to print out some pictures (if you are my husband and Father's Day has not passed, STOP READING) for my wonderful hubby's Father's Day gift. Of course, I have about an hour until he gets home and the "big day" is tomorrow. So, being the smart girl that I am (or the overly ripped off/angered/duped/whatever one), I decide I should check on el printo's status before getting too involved in my project. The printer is not only offline, it has an error and is deleting. That's right, deleting. Apparently I caught it in the middle of it's disappearing act. And since I have no idea how long this "act" takes, I am helping it along and uninstalling it. Then my computer will make me restart, and then I will have to reinstall. I am so ready to break something.

Oh, and while I'm at it, who's genius idea was it to move "run"?? I now have to click on the windows thingie, go to accessories (accessories?? Really??) and then run. What happened to the good ol' XP days when run was right there? I had a horrible time figuring that out the first time I had to "run" something (because Vista didn't automatically start it...shocking right?).