I built my new machine around Vista premium. Intel board, Quad Processor, 8 gig ram. When I fired it up, everything worked ok until I tried to install an old program that, while it worked, the installer was infected with a virus. Anyways, I did a total HD wipe and reinstalled Vista Premium.  However, I found out that Premium didn't offer me the 64 bit version of the OS CD, so I upgraded to Vista Ultimate, which comes with a  64 bit CD. I then installed all my programs that would work, sans Photoshop 5.5 :crying: But after a while, the whole boot up routine continued to grow longer...at the last count, it took Vista 15 minutes to boot up to a viewable/usuable screen.

Anyways, I am currently back to Windows XP. I hate only having 4 Gig available (I know it's less), but at least it's working.

It just boggles the mind that after all the Vista hype (4 different editions of one OS System????) , and the fact that Vista still has problems that Microsoft doesn't have the balls to say "We'll continue to work on the problems in Vista", instead, they will go ahead with the announcement of their new OS due sometime in 2010????

And why on earth do we have to pay for technical support? No other company, afaik, charges for tech support.

Eddy