[flintsilver7]

What do you mean by “its thread is iffy?” Threading was a big improvement in Vista as XP was largely a single thread of execution. Are you referring to kernel support for threading? (It most certainly is there.) Maybe you mean something else. I don’t know. What you list looks more like “hey look at me I know computers” jargon rather than something that actually makes technical sense.

For what it’s worth, you may want to look into HP as the culprit for that “patch.”

[Dead Corpse]

Threading is "iffy". As in, if you are running multiple processes you've got a better than even chance of system hangs and app crashes.

Try this one, load up IE, a chat client, MS Office 2003 with docs and exls files open, Blackberry manager, and Novell's Groupwise.

Now try and print a pdf to an HP network printer. Let me know when you get your print spooler error applet to shut down.