Thanks for the helpful and constructive answer. I have taken my question here: http://community.livejournal.com/computerhelp/1162567.html, where, after enduring a certain amount of patronizing with very poor grace, I was finally asked constructive questions to which I replied with all the specifics I could dredge up. They are towards the bottom of the comments area. The consensus seems to be (as one would expect) that the crashes are the fault of Vista.
You may notice from the data over there that the machine is wireless enabled, and that nevertheless I cannot access the net with it. Behind that lies a minor blunder of mine. When I started using the wireless facility, I blundered on to someone's private wireless network and used it without paying. They seem to have excluded me now, and of course I don't blame them, but I don't seem able to access my ISP by wireless for some reason, and Internet Explorer is not connecting to it by wire either - I suspect because my ISP is in effect an enormous LAN, and there is something in the machines that just does not talk. I tried to use the codes originally provided by the ISP, but nothing seems to work.
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Date: 2007-06-11 05:31 am (UTC)You may notice from the data over there that the machine is wireless enabled, and that nevertheless I cannot access the net with it. Behind that lies a minor blunder of mine. When I started using the wireless facility, I blundered on to someone's private wireless network and used it without paying. They seem to have excluded me now, and of course I don't blame them, but I don't seem able to access my ISP by wireless for some reason, and Internet Explorer is not connecting to it by wire either - I suspect because my ISP is in effect an enormous LAN, and there is something in the machines that just does not talk. I tried to use the codes originally provided by the ISP, but nothing seems to work.