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To be honest, this is just getting tiresome. Someone is using Vista - and the reasons do not matter - and posts here for help. Instead they get someone's negative opinion of Vista over XP, and absolutely no help with their actual problem.

What is the point of such posts? If you cannot help the OP, then just don't post.

Maybe they bought a new system that shipped with Vista and they don't have any copies of XP to use even if they wanted to go that route. Maybe they like some other aspects of Vista (eg. it will wake from sleep to run software update, then re-sleep the system).

Maybe they just don't see the point of completely uninstall the OS, and installing another, just to fix an issue with a piece of software that many here can tell you CAN run just fine under Vista.

If you want to post opinion comments about Vista versus XP, there are already threads in the General Topics forum.

Sorry, but these anti-Vista posts in response to specific posts for help have just gotten very tiresome over the past year, and they do not help the OP anyway.