Has anybody here had much experience with Vista?

[MountainMan]

I was forced into Vista when my last computer died. Loved XP but it was no longer available.

Vista is a memory hog which supposedly contains some fancy tricks but I've never found them. The biggest single fault of XP is that it won't run any XP software, which is the vast majority of software currently available, so everything I had was lost and there is pretty much nothing to replace it.,,

Not that I'm defending Vista, but you should be able to run all your XP software. If it won't run straight up, try going to "properties" when you right click on the application and select the compatibility tab. There you can opt to run it in an earlier windows mode. I'm running some very early apps that way.

The so-called "emulation mode". Did that - didn't work. Worked in XP, but never works in Vista. Vista won't always even run software that says Vista right on it.