I've got vista and the main problem I seem to have with it is crashing at least once every couple of hours use (usually associated with either using the media player or displaying pictures - both microsoft products!!). In trying to run a favourite old game - unsucessfully - I'm sure I found somewhere that let you use the pc, emulating I suppose is the word, in earlier versions of windows. This may (or knowing MS may not) help.

BTW vista has a media centre I think it's called: it seems crap compared with what I had on my work's XP laptop before I changed jobs. Anyone else find this?