I have had Vista on my precious laptop for almost a year now, but I am seriously thinking about installing something else instead. The only reason I have not installed another OS is because I don’t want to lose my license, which I do not even have a DVD for. This is probably the most annoying thing about this version of Windows. It creates a recovery partition on your hard drive taking around 7-10 GB of your space, and puts there everything exactly in the form, in which you got it when you bought it. So all you can do with that recovery partition is “recover” your Vista back to the original state. That means that you cannot do a fresh install, and therefore, you cannot control the process or choose any type of software or settings to set up. This is some crazy stuff, because I always thought that if you buy a copy of the OS, then you are entitled to an OEM DVD, so you can at least have those 10 GB for your own needs. It comes with all that stuff that I do not need, such as HP software, different CD burning and movie-making stuff. Almost 1 GB of games that you have to buy and a lot of other useless stuff. Also there is the new dumb defragmentation tool, which completely sucks compared to the one in XP. There is UAC, which pops up every now and then. The hardware requirements are just messed up, do not even want to talk about it. Aero is a little slow on older machines. BUT, I have to say in terms of security, it is a lot better than XP. I have been on the web the entire year and have not even picked up a single virus. So I guess Windows Defender must be working well. The Aero looks really nice, especially on widescreen big displays. I do not know what to say. When you just start using it, you think how dumb it is, then when you get used to it, you start thinking it is not that bad after all :D LOL I also had to find that EasyBCD tool to work with my Ubuntu without installing GRUB into MBR. By the way, I had to remove the partition where Ubuntu was, so now I do not have anything *nixy on my laptop. I have been so busy that I cannot even write something here.