Vista Shmista

Bit the proverbial OS bullet and installed Vista today. I put it off for as long as I could because I hate installing Windows. Well, the Windows bit itself is OK, but I hate then reinstalling all the applications that I use regularly, and there's always something you miss when you format. So, I've persisted with XP for about two years, the last half of which has been difficult as the PC regularly gets its pants in a knot and crashes. Regularly - like every 2 days and 16 hours. No idea why either. No scheduled tasks running, and nothing useful in event logs. Ah well.

Anyway, Vista is now installed and yes it's a lot better looking, but a lot more annoying. Any time you want to do anything remotely controversial to the operating system like, let's say... look at Control Panel, the whole thing freezes dramatically, blanks the screen, and asks you if you really really want to proceed. Yup, sure I do, Vista. That's why I clicked on the icon in the first place, but hey, thanks for looking out for me by constantly second-guessing me! Apart from that, everything seems to run a lot slower on this archaic PC, which is to be expected. Really should upgrade it I guess. One of these days... :)