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Thanks - I appreciate the info. Actually I'm completely done with Vista. Even with SP1 - it and all the tweaks I could find for speed it up, it still is crap compared to Vista IMHO. And YES, I've tested it on systems with between 2-4GIGS of RAM, 3 GHZ Core 2 processors, 512MB fast video cards and FAST hard drives with 32mb of ram - in the end even with all this super high end hardware, all the tweaks and SP1 with all the patches - Vista is SLOW compared to XP. I've run both XP and Vista on freshly formatted drives on identical systems - network copies, file copies, boot up, application loading - all pretty much favor XP - some by a very wide margin. While I have enjoyed upgrading my OS since DOS 4 all the way to XP (OK - I didn't like Windows ME much but I didn't hate it as much as I do Vista); Vista has to be the most unpleasant OS I've ever worked with from MS. I can accept that they produced another dud like Windows ME - but I REALLY dislike the way Ballmer ignores the issues and just says - yeah - Vista is great - we sold a lot of copies. No matter what the question is about a problem with Vista - that is his standard response!

I reported the performance issues with Vista during beta testing and was told - that is a problem with my particular set up - no one else is reporting that - I CALL BS!! They knew about the issue but ignored it hoping fanboys would post that it runs fine on their system. I'm not anti MS - just antiVista (OK and anti Ballmer - didn't loathe Gates).

The fall of the Roman Empire was due mainly to internal strife - Ballmer can singlehandedly bring down MS IMHO.
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