Took me a while to open this wound, but it had to happen eventually. I like learning new stuff, but am always kind of impatient when learning a new OS. I just want stuff to be where I think it should be. I want the same functionality as I had on my last system. But, I have to slow down and remember that learning new stuff is what it should be all aboot (eh).

Anyone have any cool Vista tips? I am having fun with the sidebar widgets. Trying to learn new camera and media things. Trying to get some my old utilities working again. Had total success on installing all of my development applications. Was pretty stoked about that.

Is anyone using the digital camera import utility instead of their camera's software? I am trying it out on all of my cameras since it allowed me to not load up the manufacturer's bloat-ware. Seems to be working well. Image resizing and renaming?

Just wondering what the Vista concensus was. Remember - they can't all be Macs :)

--kev 

Hey Kev,

 I was forced to go to Vista when I got my new laptop.  I asked the sales rep what it would cost to upgrade from Vista Home to XP.  He tried to convince me that it would not be an upgrade.  But when I argued that going from an inferior OS to a supperior one was an upgrade to me, he couldn't find an argument.

 Anyway, he told me it would be $350 to have XP instead of Vista Home.  So, I instead spent $150 on Vista Ultimate.  In my oppinion, having Vista Home is the second worse thing you can do to a computer.  The first is installing AOL.  But, I am not an average user.  I am a geek that does programming, art and film editing on my system.  I have to keep the performance tweaked as best as I can for the work that I do.

 All of that being said, the only real recommendation that I have, aside from upgrading to Vista Ultimate, is to turn off the User Access Control and leave it off.  It will make installing and running your older applications much easier.

 Other than that, I have actually come to like my Vista U' pretty well.  Accept for being a resource hog, it works pretty well.

Liam