Ok it looks as though at the 4 month mark of a clean Vista Image it has entered the Twilight Zone.

I've always taken the road that you try to keep the operating system clean by using Virtual Machines for demo apps and just keeping production tools on my laptop but with so many third party tools to play with you end up with a maze of applications littered across your hard drive.

Yesterday the day just felt to be dragging on for some reason, I was in a meeting and taking down requirements but I was getting hungry and yearning for a break. But alas my time on my notebook said 11:39AM.

Still 80 minutes to lunch!!! Warning warning crashing need food need coffee....

Then I noticed on a clock on the wall that it was after 12pm? So I clicked on my clock and low and behold it was indeed 12:02pm

Another abnormality I had that in the past has occurred is that when I use Vista search it cannot locate applications.

I use utorrent to download the latest DNRTV episodes but when I search it does not show up (only emails seemed to be indexed properly)

Yet we can clearly see that I have uTorrent installed.

Also to top this up files in my Recent Documents have not updated for over a week!!

So how do I solve this....

1. Reformat?
2. Reindex and add "C:\Program Files" to my index location (currently not there so assuming it picks programs up from Add/Remove Programs ooops sorry it's Vista and been renamed to Programs and Features :D)
3. Go back to Windows XP? now that SP3 has been released and use Google Desktop Search instead
4. Move to Ubuntu Linux - Out of question due to being a .NET Developer and doing WPF stuff
5. Go Trout Farming?

So far #5 is winning due to the least amount of pain