Vista does look very cool. I found that updating the drivers to the most current ones with XP did the trick for me (duh) and that's why it was running so slow. I decided to give XP a second shot on my system and it is quite fast. I shall see when I put it to the test lol. I play a lot of games and if it can keep up with em as well as Vista then Ill keep it, otherwise Ill be going back to vista. I never said I didn't like XP, I just liked the interface better than XP...but I'm working on that part lol.