I have had Vista installed for nearly 4 weeks now. I do not have the problems everyone else seems to report. My speeds on the programs I run are actually faster than on XP. I was told that Vista does a sort of free the resources to run the program and dedicates those resources to the program or programs that are running. Which I believe is better.

Also, I and a few others have noticed that Vista is like Mac OS lol. Not sure how anyone can complain about Vista when it's like working on a Mac. I guess people just want to be finicky about something new to them.

As for running programs on Vista, either run them in Administrator mode or in Compatibility with XP. Not that difficult to figure out.

On XP, if you have 4GB of DDRAM and XP uses 256MB of that RAM, that leaves 3744MB not being used...

Where as on Vista, it's all Dedicated. Vista right now is using 792MB of my 2GB of RAM.When I run a program, that 792 will be dedicated to the programs I run. I believe that's how it works. CPU usage is 0 percent. Rarely do I ever go above 60 %. games make me use 50 % CPU, which is normal, was the same on XP.

As for the resource dedication, I am not 100 % informed on that. I am just taking someone's word on that.