I was one who was prepared to put up a good fight for Vista because I think a lot of Microsoft haters were trashing it for 'political' reasons. I was also one who went with XP fairly early when the prior generation fans were screaming about it. I fell in love with XP for 5 years.

So.....Vista 64, Q6600, GeForce 8800 GT, 8GIGS RAM, Intel motherboard, etc etc.

.....trouble trouble trouble, including the aformentioned Poser slowness. I mean it loaded textures so slow I was sure I had done something wrong.  It WOULD NOT FIND my hard drives until I performed several exhausting maneuvers with the assistance of a (paid) GeekSquad guy.

I took it off and installed XP Pro.

I found out you can "downgrade" as Balmer calls it from vista to XP. THat's for me.

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