I’m starting to notice some odd things happening with Vista (And you thought you’d left all that behind with XP. Ed). I tried downloading the Office 2007 ‘plug-in’ that allows you to save a document as a PDF, and though the software downloaded, it didn’t install. Just sat there morosely doing diddly-squat till I clicked on the cancel control.

Also Vista keeps reminding me that it needs to install a Belkin wireless adapter driver. The Vista PC is actually connected to the router with an Ethernet cable, and when I need a good connection on the XP PC then it gets the Ethernet cable, so the Belkin driver is needed on Vista when that happens. The first time I tried installing it it sat there for 20 minutes again doing nothing before I cancelled it. I think I ended up having to reboot. When I did all I got was a dark screen, Vista would not start. Restarted and it wanted to run a restore. Which I let it. The other day I tried again to install the Belkin driver and this time nothing happened and I was able to cancel it.

I also have trouble with iTunes in that sometimes when it starts it doesn’t connect to the net, and does it take a long time before I get any notice why. Eventually it tells me that the Bonjour service isn’t running. I did think that this might be connected to the fact that recently I have been using Synctoy to backup the iTunesmusic folder and as that took so long, the first time I ran it, and it was obviously reading the iTunesmusic folder, maybe both apps trying to access the same folder at the same time resulted in some kind of deadlock and Bonjour switching itself off out of a sense of pique. The trouble with this thinking is that I’m getting the Bonjour service problem even when I’m not using Synctoy and haven’t even in that logged in session.

If I go to Services to switch on the Bonjour service I always find that it shows ‘Started’ anyway. Hmm… When I then come out of Services iTunes has picked itself up and is invariably syncing up podcasts or downloading iPhone app upgrades. Seems that just opening up Services is enough to scare Bonjour into kicking itself into gear.

Another app that didn’t install to well was Synctoy itself. I think that originally resulted in a restore. Sounds like everything is tickety-boo in Windows land then.

Give me strength.