iloco,
Vista is nto as good as it SHOULD be, I could go on at length about how Capitalism at extreme, becomes self defeating, and Microsoft is proof of that. (sigh not meant as political arguement just how buisness can become it's own worst enemy by being too powerful, not enough good competition etc)

however, Vista for me currently works fantastically well! I was dreading the switch, form previous Microsoft screw ups etc...thankfully in my case, I paid the poor sod at local PC shop to build system for me, and he had all hassles of the install etc, not me  ;)

New system and Vue works a TON better. 
Vue = 1 hr 50 min render 2% resources left vs 10 min render 85% resources left...no constest! :)

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