"blake murphy" > wrote in message
.. .
>
> i have vista home premium (32-bit) on my new (in december) desktop
> machine,
> and i found it very irritating until i turned off User Account Control
> (UAC). (yes, i know there are security issues involved). now it now
> longer asks for permission before i can scratch my butt.

Hey that's a great idea. I'll try it.

>3gb sdram and
> 2.66ghz, so it's presumably designed to handle whatever inherent
> piggishness vista possesses.

You have a faster processor than I do.

>
> there were a few other tweaks, and at least one program i used to use that
> has no version for vista, but i'm reasonably content with it.
>

I got such a great deal at Tiger Direct (they have a store here in Raleigh)
that I didn't blink when it said it came with Vista. (I bought a new desktop
last May, and insisted it had XP Pro on it, though. I do most of my work
there, so I figured I can afford to try out Vista. If for any reason it
sucks in time, I will just reformat it and put XP on.