shrug I dunno... I have no use for Vista. Let's just sum it up this way: I'm currently a Sr. Sysadmin for a Fortune 50 company (yes, just the two digits). I play with all kinds of fun stuff there (e.g. I requisitioned and got an iSCSI 8 terabyte disk array in the space of less than three days - I'll be putting it into the network next week). One of those things involves the prospect of sticking Vista on a desktop when it arrives so that the team I care for can learn from the speed-bumps - they happen to do a LOT of graphics-related programming. At home, I have a 2-year-old Apple Dual G5 PowerMac, which will likely be replaced this summer with a dual Core Duo PowerMac if I can swing it. All of my personal PC's run Linux, and I'll be fscked if Windows ever gets installed on any of them. All that said, here's what you'll probably find w/ Vista and Poser: * If you're upgrading on a computer you currently own, good luck... it'll be hit-or-miss, mostly depending on whether you stuck the disk in and upgraded (bad idea), or reformatted the hard drive and installed Vista from scratch (if you're that set on Vista, then this is the least worst of your options. * If Vista came w/ a shiny new fairly-high-end computer, okay... it'll probably work for you after a couple of tweaks at the most, unless you make the dumb mistake of logging in as "Administrator", in which case everything will probably work just fine as far as Poser is concerned. After all, EF built the Windows version for XP, not Vista. If I were you, and you had the sufficient cash to do it, I'd go for a Mac and be done with the mess. Otherwise, you're probably better off sticking with XP for as long as it takes for EF to come up with a version of Poser that doesn't require admin-level permissions to run. Vista has nothing in the way of functionality or improvements that a 32-bit computer needs or wants (UAC isn't worth $200 or more, trust me). /P