Well I tried Vista again. This time it came pre-installed on my Dell desktop pc I bought from them last month. It started out kind of fun, it worked like a champ in many respects. I learned where everything was, started tweaking it little by little, being careful to not do anything drastic like install beta drivers or software. Then the evil started creeping in. First MS wanted to install a Windows update a week ago, which I did like a good Windows users. It asked to reboot. Came back up and lo and behold, my onboard video driver would not load, Windows complained that it was unrecognized. Well I have a PCI video card for my video so I figured so what, not using it anyway. So I left my pc on overnight and came back the next day to use and it was in hibernation mode and I couldn't recover from it. Why is a desktop set up for hibernation anyway? Nothing would bring it back, so I had to hard reboot it. I figured well I better stop that from happening. I looked and looked, nowhere could I find the setting to stop hibernation. Turns out the only way to turn it off is through an arcane command you have to enter through the command prompt. Wow. Ok, whatever. Then last Friday I worked from home and experienced 5 BSOD's!! WTF?! Could it be the failed video driver causing it? I hurriedly tried to back out the MS update but there was nothing in it about a updating a video driver. So I installed the Dell driver from the CD that came with the computer. Still BSOD's persisted. Also every time I came back to my pc after a few hours away, my internet connection was gone but the LAN connection was good. Geez. Did some searching on that, tried all kinds of things. Once again some arcane command line entry to turn off Windows network auto tuning. Then after that, another BSOD for good measure. Enough Vista, you maybe hot in bed but damn you are not a good friend. Goodbye forever, let me know when you sister Windows 7 is old enough to drive :D