What Problem? (Score 1, Interesting)

It never ceases to amaze me how many people who claim to have expertise with computers are only pushing buttons at random and then complain when their systems don't work.

I have loaded Vista onto my newest laptop. Mind you this is installing Vista over an existing XP installation with which the system came. The system works great, admittedly it is a new Inspiron with a dual core Intel chip. The only issue is that I didn't uninstall the XP Powertoys before converting and now they won't uninstall, oh well.

Everything works better and faster than the original XP installation. I run, finally as a user rather than Administrator, I rarely get any UAC warnings unless I am doing an administrative task. I know that installers run with elevated privileges but I have not seen or heard of an exploit.

If you can't get Vista to run right then you are doing something wrong. Old or bad hardware (almost always the cause of BSOD) or old or funky software will cause problems but I haven't run any DOS or 16 bit windows software in many years. I run a mix of commercial and open source software, mostly for software development and web development.

If you like Linux, knock yourself out, but I have work to do. I need documentation, user interface standards and stable code.

Regards,
Chris