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Since I have installed the 64 bit version of Windows Vista I have faced tons of problems. Some of them were my mistakes. Some other issues were partly because it did not fit in to my understanding of Windows OS.

Here are the latest problems. Not all of them may be specific to 64 bit version.

I have been taking complete PC backup using Vista backup almost every day after installing the 64 bit version. I was doing this because of my past experience with 64 bit editions of Windows. So, to avoid building my OS setup from scratch and going through Windows Activation and other software installation I though I will take the complete PC backup. After installing and experimenting with a bunch of software that claims to work with Windows Vista as well as the 64 bit edition, my system stopped functioning properly. Network connections will not work, IE started complaining about some dll etc. I decided that it is time to do a complete PC restore.

Based on the documentation, I need to restart the computer and hit F8 repeatedly to get the complete PC backup restore. I restarted the computer and I missed it. So, I press the reset button in the middle of the boot because I had no need to get to the OS without complete restore. This time I correctly pressed F8 and get in to the boot and could not find the advanced options. So, I decided to use the install disc to get to the repair options. I get there and select repair. There are no options to complete restore. The repair kept saying that the Windows was not started successfully and and will attempt automatic repair using system restore. This is not what I wanted. I wanted the option to restore the complete PC backup.

All these takes a lot of time and I was getting frustrated. I thought if I allowed Vista to boot successfully and then restart and start the restore, it might help. And it worked. So, old style unintuitive way to do. Please don’t make all decisions for me. I know what I need to do. Give me that damn option regardless of whether the Vista was started last time successful or not. Keep the automatic repair as an option.