I wrote the other day about my attempts to upgrade my XP installation to Vista. After trying 4 times & having the upgrade fail for an “unknown reason” each time, I decided that using my clean dual boot installation & re-installing the packages I need to use, was the best way forward. Any older software that won’t run under Vista, will still be in my XP installation.

So, I got all my e-mails transferred over to Outlook under Vista & installed Dreamweaver etc. Things seemed ok, apart from a couple of troublesome e-mail accounts that won’t connect to their server, so I thought I’d give Bit Defender Total Security 2009 a go, as I have a 6 month free offer from PC Advisor. What a nightmare that turned out to be!!!!!

After installing this package, Outlook came to a full stop & I kept having to close it down. I’m not sure whether it was the anti-spam that was crashing Outlook, or just the combination of 2 bloated Microsoft products running together, but I removed Bit Defender & installed the FREE Comodo Internet Security package instead.

However, Outlook is still not running properly now and after 3 days of this, I’ve really had enough! If Microsoft thinks I’ll be going through all this again for Windows 7, they’ve got another think coming!!!!