Here's a tip for getting around virus's....

Buy your software, don't steal it.

Here's a tip for getting the most out of Vista - Actually give it a shot on hardware designed for it. My machine runs Vista just fine, I have zero issues with it. There ARE shortcomings with support for vista, however it's not a failure on MS's end.

As for the F3 thing - I've had that happen once ever... I have noticed the phantom window being added to the list, I always remove it but would wager I missed it the time I was having the F3 problem.

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