As both my best friend and I reformat our 500 gig drives and go back to xp... am betting things will run better after all the odball wonky things vista 32 started doing (already reloaded the damn thing once myself when system files went crazy) and now her's is too... truth is apparently our "old" 32 bit programs just really do run often in emulation and vista does not like it..whatever... I want my steady (don't think about it, just use it) XP back!!! The drivers I had to get for my one year old printer, my mouse etc. are like faked out vista drivers and do not work right... so took away some functionality... so the bloom is off the rose... lot of backing up and then will be "gone" till we get all set back up and happy as clams!! My poor friend has a hot machine (not as much as mine) but never could get her poser open at the same time as photoshop!?? and Poser 6.3 would not ever look or work right.... I think our programs have "hit the wall" and are happiest on XP... and ya.... you can say "told ya".... live and learn.... good thing I have reformatted and reinstalled a few times... as she has not so we shall go step by step together...

mainly if you do not hear a peep out of me, that is why...

Hugs,

Lyne

Good luck!
I agree. Vista had some good ideas incorporated, but those were badly executed. Vista also has some VERY bad ideas incorporated (lie the DRM stuff).
You're much better off with XP, either the 32 bit version or the 64 bit version.
I hope MS will learn from their Vista debacle, like they learned from their Windows ME debacle. Maybe the successor to Vista is a decent OS again.
In the meantime, stick to XP. That OS works.

Good luck Lyne!
Reloading is always a blast...lol...yea right!

It amazing how some users love Vista and others seem to have a really bad time with it.

Im running XP Home, XP Media Center and Vista Home ( I think its home) here and havent had any problems with any of the three OS's....I hope it stays that way.  :)

I hope your back up and running soon! 

Vista = bad.  My dad's new PC has it, and every time he needs me to fix something Vista tries to drive me insane.  (Not a far drive, but still.)  My favorite so far was when it flat out refused to acknowledge the data on the CD I burned under XP.  It knew there were howevermany MB of data there, but it wouldn't let me look at them or access them.  :-/

I wish you luck with your return to XP.

**and two weeks later.... third re-load, because my upgraded xp ...well never mind... I bought the FULL xp, then my anti-virus suite I chose...well never mind... STILL working at it all!!.... (some days just depressed), but on days I work with the machine, my OLD mind is learning NEW tricks, when I have to "do it all myself" with just phone help from my son, as he can't come back here right now... oooo my!

I did buy the renderoisty little BEAR WITH TEE SHIRT with the new logo and the mugs from this year and last...and I promised a picture of them here in the store forum... finally TOOK some camera phone pics... finally got them ON my machine...so still to come... but CUTE AND WELL DONE!! VERY RECOMMENDED IF YOU COLLECT MUGS AND TEDDY IS CUTEST, BEST BEAR!!!

Lyne**