A month on and all's well.

Kaspersky's Beta dummy-spits....says it's 'stopped working' whilst it's doing a system scan [some form of false-positive cos it's clearly working...it's doing its scheduled scan.....ah, the joys of Betas].

Just about everything I can throw at it works OK [sometimes only 'ish'].  The File/folder tree is quaint...for want of a better word....duplicated and thus confusing references/locations for pictures, downloads, docs, etc.... I wonder if MS can spell 'KISS'.

Trying as hard as I can I've only managed 3 system lockups requiring a reset [and I could kill Win2000 at will, anytime I wanted...and that was supposed to be rock-solid yet I broke it typically twice a day].

If your most frustrating quirk is the mouse scrollwheel only working in one direction when interfacing with WA 2.9x  [volume only goes up, not down] then it's a pretty bloody good OS.

I dl'd the 64bit ver of Win 7 ...so next trick is to install that on a second drive and compare performances...and see if I find any driver dramas...

Familiarize yo'self with an XP pseudo-clone, cuz that's what UAC did (giving them the benefit of the doubt, here) to Vista.

Drivers, what's that -- outa synch at it happens?

M$ should give me back total control over CODECs, that's what.

Glad the new gear remains stable, so far.

Uptime is 6 days, 20:15:50 and counting...

Jafo - you leave it on 24/7?

Yes....it's required so I can keep up to speed with what's happening on the site and on IRC.

My previous machine outlived the lifespan of the case fans.  I replaced all 3 about 12 months ago.

It's one of the reasons I choose decent componentry....they get a hard life...and I want it to be a long one....

Wow. I can't keep mine on all the time in this heat. And the power bill would go up.

Kona...'Black Saturday' earlier this year saw us with 46.2c as an air temp.... though typically that's 10c higher than what we usually have in Summer.

Only 115.16 degrees F? Arizona sees 120 F every summer here. Of course here where I am in Oregon we hardly see 100 F at all.

How is winter down there?

That wasn't a desert temperature...that was the temperature in Australia's second most populous city....on the Southern end of the mainland....

Highest recorded temp in Oz was/is...

• Oodnadatta, South Australia  50.7 C  (123.3 F) on the 2nd January, 1960
  

Melbourne weather is comparatively mild.... and if you don't like it you only need to wait 5 minutes...

Winter max's are typically 12 or so [c] and minimums around 5 or 6 at night...

Highest recorded temp here in the US was:

USA's highest temperature, 134° F on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, CA

Ipswich Winter temps range from the mid 20's down to 0c and lower... 3 nights ago it was -2c here, but 26c during the day.  Such huge fluctuations play havoc on my poor arthritic bones... Melb fluctuations would be easier to get used to.

And before you suggest moving... that would mean 'aerial bloody ping-pong and bloody Victorians for neighbours.

Yebbut...I'm Tasmanian...and I hate aerial pingpong....

You all send Winter back here as soon as you can OK? Thanks. Hot weather makes me sick.