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So after 20 years of computing, I am still frustrated by apps that don’t work or hardware that don’t work and all the flaky little dumb*ss problems. IMHO, operating systems should be seen and not heard. They should be something that the user doesn’t have to think about. They should just work.

Now, I am using a <2 year old laptop with 1 gig of ram, and Vista. Know what, I can’t get internet explorer to work. I have been using firefox, but when a friend needed to use my computer to access her homework, she could not log in with firefox. Then she couldn’t get IE to work. We ended up doing her homework on her cell phone. I have re-downloaded IE, but it still doesn’t work. This is the kind of stuff that just drives me nuts.

parsy, who is nuts.

You need to double your RAM with Vista - that’s it’s major downside. I am happy with my Toshiba laptop that runs Vista (almost 3 years) but I had to pay for more computing power.

Yes you need at least 2 gigs of RAM to run Vista 32, but what is more interesting in your post is the problems you are having.
You need to do a full Anti-Virus scan, An ADware Scan and a Rootkit scan as it sounds like you have a bunch of junk on there. Additionally you probably have a bunch of what are called TSRs running in the background. These are programs like Adobe reader speed launch, Java Updater, One Note, and other programs that start up and then stay running in the background.
If you need any of the scanners I mentioned, you can get them free at http://www.techsupportalert.com/