[danielsun]

Originally Posted by mill

Why dont you just whack Xpeepee on the lappy Daniel??
Get rid of vista.

Thanks Martin,
I have thought of going XP but I am worried that in the long run I when support stops for XP that I may have to end up back on Vista, though not sure if that's how it will work.

Originally Posted by Starkler

Daniel I have had similar problems to this before and there's two things you should try before blaming windows.


1: Take the covers off your pc and get all the dust and crud out. If your cpu heatsink is crusted in crud it cant dissipate the heat.

2: Run an a boot disc ram checking program and leave it running over night.

Thanks Geoff, I have a laptop which is exactly one year old so I will give your option 2 a go.

Originally Posted by leon

No good Daniel, there is nothing worse when one is half way through a project or something and the thing freezes up or stops doing its job, very frustrating i'm sure, hope you get it sorted soon mate.

Leon

Thanks Leon, Yes It is really frustrating me.

Originally Posted by rat156

Hi Leon,

I use a Mac a lot, mainly for the image processing. Unfortunately I have to use a PC for the image acquisition as CCDSoft doesn't run on the Mac. I used to run it off a Mac using bootcamp, but that's still using windows.

I bought a cheap PC for my observatory. I use a MacPro for image processing using CCDStack (in Windows as Bootcamp), then flip back over to the Mac for Photoshop.

Cheers
Stuart

Most of my problem is getting my laptop to behave whilst running the scope and acquiring the images, but thanks anyway Stuart.

Originally Posted by renormalised

Yes, you can use a Mac for astronomy. For the initial image processing and stacking you can use Keith's Image Stacker, Nebulosity, PHD and a variety of others....here's some sites you might like to take a peek at...

Keith's Image Stacker

Starstruck-Mac Astronomy Software

Originally Posted by Gama

Throw XP on it as others suggested.
Or try the new version 7 windows.
But there is some overlaying issues thats causing these faults, but you will verify when you install XP.

Theo.

Thanks renorm for the links, might come in handy.
Not game to try the beta version of windows 7 yet, I'll wait till the pro's iron out the bugs.

Thanks everyone for your feedback and help.
Cheers Daniel.