re: Vista, woe unto us!
After reading, and listening to many, many folks decrying the invasive, pervasive way Micro$oft has coded Vista.
No way, no how, fugeddit.
My box dies, have a nice shiny new unregistered XP disc set in box, just for such ocassions. Build new box, load it, end of discussion. An aside, that's why I've hung onto Corel Word Perfect 11, 12 sucks rocks and fubars my system, not to mention losing files.
Sticking with XP until EOS, in the meantime ... me learn LINUX.