Question regarding Vista

I have Vista also and have had no problems with it. As for the UAC (user account control) which pops up every time you want to do something, you can disable it which is what I did in the control panel. I also performed a few tweaks from this article that you might want to check out: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2238&page=1.

I used Vista in this pc too when it was first bought a month back. same as your experience, it also crashes AND is VERY insecure (wouldn't let many of the programs i normally use with XP to run which i find SO dang annoying). so i HIGHLY suggest you change to the well-loved (*grins*) OS that has been proven time and again to be stable, dependable and very user-friendly. i don't know about you, but after years of using XP, i always managed to get lost around that Vista. the look of Vista is something to admire, though. however, you can get the same look with XP if you knew your way around PC tweaks and stuff.so you can have both functionality and visual stimulation with XP :)

Hmmm, if your just going to use it on those stable purposes, I guess you can keep that OS for the time being but, if you still want to use it with other applications, you might as well consider changing it for the best.. I mean, if you really want to get your money's worth and use the laptop for more than just internet and storing documents and files, better have a stable OS.. well, until Vista finally assures us that its stable enough to handle consumer needs..

hehe, for me, when Vista became a hot poit, i installed it to my disck F, to run a double OS, and to felt Vista, then i found Vista's theme is really great, so i GOT LOVE it when i first used it, but, as time goes by, I was bored to commit every application, so i deleted Vista, to use my XP OS only. To perchase tue beauty, i managed to add Vista's theme to my XP, and now, i enjoy my XP!

You know how microsoft stopped supporting ME. From what I've heard microsoft is not going to be supporting XP anymore. They are going to force us all to eventually go to Vista. Yuck!

Peronally I would down grade to XP, however you may have issues with drivers etc. Perhaps it is best to search the internet for Vista tweeks in order to lower the level of windows security?

I can only speak for my own experience with Vista. Ive had over 80 BSOD crashes since I got my Dell Lappie back in Nov. Dell will not stand behind their promotion of Vista installed on their machines in my case. MS is just as bad as far as support. The crashes have diminished in the last 2 months since the last hotfixes release. Vista does not play well with 3rd party products. Firefox, Thunderbird, Verizon wireless, Comcast. Vista does not like em doing updates. The HD starts to spin, the BSOD comes a creepin.

My laptop has Vista and I have yet to experience any problems with it. I'll stick with the if it ain't broke don't fix it philosophy.

Good day... For me just downgrade your OS to Xp and save yourself from lots of headache and waste of time finding appropriate software for that OS. I mean I think XP will always be better until of course win7 if ever.

i don't like it at all. i would have xp put back on, but hurry up they are doing away with xp all together..

Well, i think you just better downgrade to Windows XP since Vista is not yet stable for the moment. Although Vista SP1 is now available.. And since its for internet and computer use only, XP would do good. And about that something that pops out when you run a program, that can be fixed in the control panel. I also have a laptop that has pre-installed Windows Vista. I did dual boot that is I've installed Ubuntu (which is a free OS and can be downloaded from the internet) on it too so whenever i start the computer, i'll have to choose between Vista and Ubuntu. Ubuntu uses only 256 memory unlike Vista which is 512 memory. If the memory of the laptop is not too big then you can try Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu whenever i access the internet because virus and spywares cannot operate on Linux operating system and it has Open Office that works like the Microsoft Office. But you may not be familiar with Open Office for the documents since you cannot install Microsoft Words and the likes in Ubuntu. I only use Vista when i want to use programs that are not compatible with Ubuntu Linux.

I would downgrade to XP for the time being, maybe wait a few months for all the glitches to be fixed and then go to vista again. I personally like Vista but that's just me. Also my laptop is pretty new with 2 gigabytes RAM so it runs really fast.

The annoying thing your are talking about is called UCA and can be turned off ver easily from windows defender. I personally use Vista, and for all activities, gaming, surfing, photoshop, music, typing, u name it, and i absolutely love it. I dont see anything wrong in vista that wasnt in XP, once you get to know it well, you will realize vista rules.

if it's my computer, i would change to vista. its more useful, easy to understand commands and cmon, a lot of people prefer xp than vista! i love xp because its easy and fast in the same time. but it's your computer, and you do what you want with it, so, if we all here change your mind, i think its a great start (:

I'll downgrade to XP and have. When I first got my MacBook Pro, I installed Vista in the bootcamp for school work. Then compability issues made me install XP along with Vista and Mac OS X. Then it got so unstable and many programs returned the not responding dialogue that I totally gave up Vista and just fell back to XP. XP is still much better than Vista, without all the compability issues and all those security dialogue. As for drivers issues, I think XP Service Pack 2 and above should have the necessary drivers, so it shouldn't be that big an issue.