Re:What is Vista anyway? (Score 1)

Once they could select their username from a list that made it possible to give each family member an individual and run them in low privileged accounts.

Others above suggest running W98 to avoid viri.

Well, cheer up, friends! If you can find an old version of IE (I think 4 or thereabouts), it comes with "Family Login", which -- ta-daa! -- lets you select your username from a list! It has to be activated in (would you believe) the Network Properties screen...

(Then, of course, you uninstall IE so nobody will use it by mistake...)

So you can run W98 and have your user-picker too. My family has been doing that since ... oooh, 1999 or so. W98 runs nearly everything jes' fine, as long as you use a PlayStation for heavy gaming...

Craig