So she purchased a laptop with no OS installed or with XP installed and a Vista installer on a partition? If it's the first case, why? If it's the second, why not just buy it with Vista already installed, you probably paid extra for that "feature." On top of that, until recently, have you ever installed OS X on a Toshiba laptop? Probably not... Did you try to figure out wireless support or bluetooth on a laptop running any flavor of linux? It wasn't pleasant until the "windows of linux" came along in Ubuntu. No UAC, you just have to put the root password in every time you want to do anything beyond changing a directory... much simpler. And everyone is in autoclick mode for UAC, simple, effective, and free solutions exist in abundance. www.avg.com, www.zonealarm.com for two that work well and auto update themselves. I'm still wondering why you were upgrading a laptop to Vista for your mother. What feature of Vista were you gunning for?

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