Girderman

I built an Opteron 165 system on a DFI board and never saw the potential of this hardware until Vista.

I really like it, and like it more every day.

Unfortunately I get chronic HD error problems on a 290 Gbyte SATA that never had a problem before Vista, and the errors are all on the Vista partition.

But I think it is my chipset drivers need to be updated. Too lazy lately to try them.

I don't really like IE7 too much, either. Where's the back button ? And the Home Page button is too small and obscure looking. And the search in the browser is goofy and suspicious looking. I thought Microsoft lost an anti-trust suit for software bundling, and now Vista wants to be my search engine. I like Google just fine, maybe Gates should pays some more millions.

And I don't like Vista's Explorer either. Where are the directory navigation arrows, like "Up" ? Roaming around in the directory structure is no longer intuitive, it's unnecessarily complex with WAY too many features jammed into my mug that I will NEVER use. Too much eye candy, too many glittering, shimmering, winking, dancing and glowing lights; like a Las Vegas showgirl only she's fat and has a mustache.

But (/rant) the boot-up and shut-down times are MUCH faster and smooter too. I can actually do something once the Desktop appears, instead of waiting for XP to finish loading the drivers and connecting the internet. It's more stable, and better looking in most respects. The sound got better too. Smaller, lighter & faster sound prompts rather than grandiose XP noises that sort of sounded like the groans of a sinking Cargo ship that got torpedoed in WWII.