>I have seen that too. But I always have to remind myself that MS has made these enhancement to protect me from myself.

So... does it help? The protection, that is.

>One more thing. Everyday at 10:00 am, Vista defrags my 200 gig hard drive. I have changed the start time to 2:00 am, but it still executes at 10:00. Talk about dragging a machine to it knees.

It's 2AM somewhere...