>I believe we should all be looking at Vista. You're going to need some experience with it when a customer buys a new PC with it or upgrades their current machine.

Which was the reason I bought this laptop with the Vista on it.

>But, for day to day production work --- no freaking way am I going back to Vista.

Well, I've had even less luck with it - http://drfairday.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-i-learned-not-to-worry-and-hate.html

And after five days of fun and patience, I still have to find a way to make a few gadgets work - like the memory card reader and the wireless connection. And I'm seriously thinking of using the C: partition for something useful. I've meanwhile tried to add it to boot.ini, but it complains about hal.dll (doesn't say where is it looking for it), which is untouched, so it won't boot into Vista. I figure some of the HP's drivers have overwritten a few things on the C: drive, as is the habit of a lot of software out there (it's always been on the C: drive, it will always be on the C: drive, the C: drive is always there for you, who would think of installing anything anywhere else but on the C: drive etc etc), so basically installing XP on D: screwed it in multiple ways. I may just give up on it.

And BTW, looking at Task Manager - for that one day while I had Vista, the processor meter was mostly swinging between 25% and 50% when I was doing nothing, sometimes it would briefly go down to 15% and then back. Now it hovers around 1% to 3%.