Hmm...I wonder if the Commodore 64 was 64-bit....but I digressI've begun to have a problem with windows starting up. It never reaches the desktop. It gets stuck on the wheel indefinately. I have an Acer laptop with an AMD chip and it has worked fine until now. I don't have much on it but open office, reader I believe and some other third party stuff but nothing that it puts in the startup. I am running the beta of Kapersky AV that was recommended for Win7. Any ideas?I also have a problem with standby. It never comes out of it properly and I have to power cycle to recover. Is this normal for this beta?Thanks Pete

The Commodore 64 had 64 KB of RAM and was 8 bit... And now, back to our regularly scheduled program...Now then... You say it never reaches the desktop - I'm assuming then it gets past the part where you have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and enter your password and starts loading the desktop.There are a few thingsyou can try. 1.) Can you hit Ctrl-Shift-Esc and bring up Task Manager at any point while the wheel's spinning?2.) Can you boot it into Safe Mode successfully?3.) If you can, please create another user with the same rights as the one that seems to be hanging indefinitely. Reboot and try logging in with that user's ID.Let's see if we can solve the boot issue first before we tackle the the sleep/standby mode issue. If we can't get past the boot, the otherissue is kind of moot. But yes, that kind of thing can be normal for a beta. It's not perfected as yet and it's likely to have bugs.

Ahh yes the good ole C64. I don't remember it crashing LOL.Actually it's before the desktop. No I cannot Ctl-shft-esc. I can however get into safe mode. My problem now has gone from bad to worse. Now it's blue screens on half of my attempts to start up. I have a dump but without a 64bit debug program from a working 64 bit computer, I can't look to see what it was complaining about. I did see in the event log that it complained about several processes not starting up. The last thing I installed was the Windows media encoder and some codec package. I think I may just find the CD and reformat unless you think this can be fixed. I purchased a new hard drive just for this socan easily reformat if needed :) Thanks Pete

Ok, well I finally was able to catch the blue screen error before it reboots. (I've always hated that default setting of automatic restart after failure.If my computer blue screens by god I want to know why) It is complainging about KL1.SYS which was the Kapersky AV for Win7 which also is in beta. Unfortunately I lost my ability to boot into safe modeas it will just sit and restart into eternity. So I guess I'll go with my original plan to reformat/reinstall. It's kinda looking like Kapersky was the source of all my problems. I wasn't gonna bother with AV since I generally don't anywaybut I figure hey, I'll be a good beta tester and look at all aspects of the OS. :)Thanks again Pete