[swany]

First thing I do not have a PC with the new microstudio, but have struggled with Vista on my laptop with hoster and all my DJ music on it. #1 problem and this may be related to yours. Vista quits searching any file after the first 5000. I too have made my laptop with Vista, to be XP as possible, best bet that I've found is to go to your control panel with the PC online and get as many upgrades (patches) as possible mine required 23. I have a Gateway, first thing I had to do is call Gateways support, and they gave me a (I'm not supposed to tell you this) then walked me through one upgrade when I was having issues with the sound card. I can search my hard drive for kma files that I've recently downloaded off new discs and it won't show up in a hard drive search. It will show up in the search function for Hoster so I'm good there. I have two PCs on XP with hoster and don't have this problem. Now when I add music to the laptop, I first convert them on a XP, put them all in one file on my flash drive. Add that file to the Vista hard drive in hoster songs, merge the kma files into the data base through hoster. Thing is now I can find them with the Vista, hard drive search go figure. If I buy another new laptop, I can tell you if it has Vista, I will format the hard drive and install XP before I install any Microstudio or Hoster. I am getting along with the one Vista I have, I now know most of the quirks, however my employees and my wife are next to being a psycho killers after one night on it. So that show has been deemed for Swany use only.