You could try this for now  http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials/

I'd go with AVG free http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage

I ran across one article that said FF3.5 may be a cause. That is one thing I don't run at work. Just for giggles I uninstalled FF. We'll see what happens. Maybe a ff addon doing it.

Windows Live One Care is pretty much history, according to Microsoft. Microsoft Security Essentials is a combination antivirus/antimalware program provided by Microsoft. I believe it's the replacement for One Care. It's free and works well for me.

Never had anything but problems with One Care back when it first came out so haven't tried it since.

I'd go with Fuzzys suggestion of AVG free. I've been using the combination of that and the free version of Comodo Firewall for about 2 years now on 2 pcs and never a problem on either.

Then again I haven't gotten my Win7 upgrade disc yet so I'm not sure how either is working on that.

thanx for all yr advice - will try avg

*fr4nkenstein sees that his post was late... agrees with others*

I didn't have FF installed at the time of my explorer hiccup.  Thing is, it hasn't had indigestion since pulling the data disc, so I'm taking it that that was the problem.

The other issue I've noticed is my internet connection sometimes doesn't start up at login... gotta go to 'network' and start it manually.

Another weird thing.... while I temporarily had Vista as the primary boot and Win 7 as secondary, the boot screen in Win 7 was the same as the Vista one... now that I've made Win 7 the primary OS it is showing the new 'pretty' boot screen.

Dual booting the microsoft way has always been flaky.

I installed W7 to an empty drive with my vista disk disconnected. I switch the boot harddrive from BIOS when I want to change the OS.

I've not had any major issues dual booting Windows editions... the bootscreen thing I thought was just weird... everything else was working as it should in Win 7.  The internet not starting at login was the fault of my adapter, so I discovered.... the little lug on the ethernet plug had snapped off and it was not seated correctly in the socket.  Fixed now, though.

Update to my issue.

After uninstalling FF I cannot produce the issue. Before it was easily accomplished by copying a large number of files to a different location or external nas drive. Problem appears to be resolved. I will try a fresh install of FF and see if it returns.

it ends in tears   lol

windows7 looked great, took me almost 10 hours to load my software and assorted downloads and then.........

oh dear, it kept closing my mobile broadband modem!   not only that but it took 10mins for firefox to open,

so had to format ant re load vista-all is well again but no windows7  lol

Last install I did of 7 was into a VMWare...in 7 ...both 64bit.

It was so quick it forgot to ask where I was and gave me US time somewhere...instead of Oz time.

Probably about 5 minutes or so to install....;p

Ok. When I upgrade to Win 7, which programs of Boot Skin and Logon Studio will work with it?

Thanks.

No Bootskin works.

LogOn Studio Vista works fine.

Thanks Ausvet.