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The “black screen” message is resolved by going to setup/storage/ then click on the “Empty” icon under (in my case) IDE Controller. Then on the right, click on the little round disc. Then select “Choose a virtual CD/DVD disc file”. Go to your Windows 8 down load. Now go back and start again. Worked for me.

For the archives… A re-boot resolved the issue. I suppose I could “set rant on”, but it wouldn’t do any good – so – have a good day!!

Dave

Thank you “J”!! But, just in case it still isn’t understood… There is an option at the top of this window which is “Microsoft Patch Reliability Ratings”. If you go there, you only see comments regarding Windows XP. As J stated, if you read the “Way Cool” Vista for Dummies book written by Woody, you would expect to see information regarding patches put out for Vista.

What triggered the question was a patch, actually 3 patches, that were ready to be applied yesterday. I put in two that were security oriented, but waited on the third until I came to this site to see what the comments were. Hmmmm – no comments at all…

Dave

Brand new machine; fresh install. However, I DID run the Advisor on my old system…FWIW

This is going to be ugly. Don’t see a way to copy from the uninstall list…so here goes:

Adobe Audition 1.5
Adobe Flash Player 9 Activex
Adobe Reader 8
Carbonite Backup
Cisco Systems VPN Client 5.0.00.0090
DiskMapper
Epson Print CD
Epson Printer Software
Gigabyte Raid Configurer
Google Toolbar for IE
GoToMeeting 3.0.0.190
Java SE Runtime Environment 6
Juicer 2.1
Libronix Digital Library System
LogMeIn
Microsoft:
Easy Assist
Intellipoint 6.1
Intellitype Pro 6.1
Office Home and Student 2007
Office Sounds
Office Standard Edition 2003 (Outlook)
Mozilla Firefox
MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB927978
NOD 32 Antivirus System
Palm Desktop
PerfectDisk
PowerPanel
Quicken 2007
QuickTime
ScanSoft PaperPort 11
ScenalyzerLive
Skype 3.1
Skype add-on for IE
Sony ACID Music Studio 5.0
Sony Cinescore 1.0
Sony Cinescore Plug-In 1.0
Sony DVD Architect 4.0
Sony Media Manager 2.2
Sony Vegas 7.0
SuperAntiSpyware Professional
TextPad 4.7
TurboTax Delux 2006
VASST DVDPrep 1.3.0
VASST Ultimate S2 2.2.2
VideoLan VLC media player 0.8.6a
WeatherBug
WinZip

Dave

I’m not ignoring you…just didn’t get home until late… I have turned off UAC. and back on. and back off. etc. Depends on how frustrated I get with all the ‘you gotta be careful’ messages…

I have MANY programs installed… Do you want the listing from my “uninstall” dialog?

1) Intel Core 2 duo E6600 5715 CPU
2) No brand. Put together from parts at Micro Center.
3) 2G ram
4) C: 750G; D: 2 320G Raid 0; Massive amount of unused space
5) Dual boot – no.
6) Vista Business
7) Clean install

> The most likely culpret in those activities taking so long is your anti-virus software. <

I don't think so. I've had NOD32 from the time I had the system, and there was no problem initially. And then something happened that I haven't been able to define, and Copy/Delete went into the bucket. I think it might have something to do with the Search service (see my other reply).

Dave

Got lots of hits on the web – but none in the Lounge. Many people complaining about it – but I was expecting to find the answer here…

The ‘icon’ was just an example…An itty bitty file taking 10-30 seconds to delete – the most of it being with the dialog up with the “Calculating Time Remaining” heading.

I’m wondering if this has something to do with the other issue I had, and that is that I always get, EVERY signon, or everytime I do a search/delete/copy, etc.,
a dialog that says, “Microsoft Window Search Indexer has stopped working”, and then the options are, “Check online for a solution (recommended)” and “Close.”

Earlier I went into services and disabled Microsoft Search, and that resolved the issue of the dialog box, but I decided to set it back to Automatic and just keep clicking on the “Check online for a solution” button – hoping that maybe they’ll (M$ST) get tired of it and just fix the problem.

Another possibility is reloading Vista, just in case I’ve messed something up that caused the problem.

As far as “bogus” is concerned – it is the length of time it takes for Vista to Copy/Delete/etc., objects…

Dave

Well, I went to DEP and attempted to add Search Indexing to it, and Vista refused. Any other ideas?

Sysinternals has been purchased by Microsoft – so I guess they don’t rate as “third party” – However, continuing to search for an answer I found on THEIR forum that the question had been asked many times – and hadn’t been answered… Ain’t that special…So, maybe something will show up someday…

Well, yeah, but, maybe your taskmgr.exe properties are set up different than mine. When I search for taskmgr.exe, and right click and run as administrator, it works. but if I right click on the taskbar and select Task Manager it doesn’t. There is no “right click” at that point. If I select taskmgr.exe properties, even when set up as an (and I understand “an”) administrator, I am unable to access any of the security properties. The compatibility tab doesn’t let me “run this program as an administrator.” The security tab lets me look, but not change ANY of the settings. The administrators group is set up with “Read & execute” and “Read” rights, but I cannot change them. When I go in under Edit, everything is disabled.

I consider not being able to right click on the task bar, clicking Task Manager and having it not come up, to be a good thing. As I said before, this happened when I installed the process explorer and selected the option to “replace task manager”.

Newsflash: When I UNSELECT the option to replace task manager, I CAN run task manager with a right click on the task bar. When I SELECT that option, I have the security issues. However, it has been nice, with XP, to be able to have the process explorer come up in place of the task manager. Any ideas why it isn’t working with Vista?