sorry but i was an early adopter to xp back in the first week or so of its roll-out in europe, frankly i think it was in far better shape than Vista was on release, performed a damn sight better before they even began patching the thing. why vista still requires such heavy ammounts of memory just to idle after start-up with bare minimal services still illudes me, the thing is still slow ugly and crap for gaming, not to mention soo much back dated software will not and most likely never will work with the OS. Vista stinks.