I also have a laptop and desktop with Vista. Personally I don't like it but
am forced to use it. I feel that for most people it is a resource hog,
using "pretty" for no obvious reason. When I turn on a computer I want it
to boot fast, be stable and run the programs I ask it to run and be
compatible with the devices I have. After all the OS is only to support the
production programs, not to be pretty. I have a screensaver for that.

My issues are extremely slow printing (XP boxes with slower processors work
great under identical setups) that I haven't found an answer to yet (posted
in vista.print_fax_scan newsgroup), not being able to have different folders
(of the same type) come up and maintain different settings and a few of the
other "tweaks" that I have performed in XP not being able to be performed in
Vista. There is a large learning curve with Vista in getting it to do
exactly what you want and then there is the program and device
incompatibility issue that many are having. I wasn't able to get my
mainstay of Office '97 to install 100% correctly so I have to have Office
2003 & 2007 as my primary products on those machines for teaching duties
(yes I still have students that want to learn Word '97.
) I also haven't
been able to get my color laser printer, 2 years old, to work with Vista yet
as the manufacturer doesn't have Vista drivers yet (coming soon) and the XP
drivers don't work.

So that being said, back to the Vista newsgroups to attempt to find out
answers to my issues so I can be a happy Vista user.