[kadnium]

I recently purchased the Kobo WiFi and install the desktop app v1.7 (Oct 15, 2010).

Has anyone else been experiencing slowness and unresponsiveness of the desktop? Its nearly impossible to purchase a book as the icons/graphics take several minutes to load. The app also hangs every once in a while. Completing a purchase is painfully slow if it does work. Browsing my own library is somewhat okay but it is definitely slower than v1.4 and the v1.6 (available from the web site .. which their support told me install). Of course v1.4 and v1.6 do not sync with the kobo wifi.

I've tried the following already to fix to no effect:
- reinstall v1.7 (Oct 15, 2010); the one that comes with the device
- tried v1.4 and v1.6 (Aug 25, 2010) ; both are fast but it won't sync with the kobo wifi
- reinstall a new copy of Windows 7 ultimate on a virtual machine and just install the v1.7
- problem occurs with the kobo attached or not
- signing out/in
- disabling antivirus (just to see what would happen)

I've had the first kobo ... so I know how the desktop app is supposed to work.

Overall, I've had a horrible experience, I've wasted many hours of my life trying to get this to work ... doing the kobo team's job of testing their shitty app.

At the moment, I'm running the v1.4 app in a virtual machine to purchase the books and sync'ing with the v1.7 on my main machine.