i have vista now but i do prefer xp alot more ive had nothing but problems with vista

I have xp and there's nothing wrong with it.

Vista just requires more from a system

memory
graphics (this has to work with Vista more than it did with XP)
drivers

2 or 3 year system should be able to handle Vista, just you might have to beef up the RAM to 2GB.

Otherwise everyone going to have to make the switch or just keep on running XP until you're ready to do so.. I only know of one corp American insurance company is going to through a battle now to implement Vista Business and Office 2007 into their domain environment. Taken them 1 year of model office testing now and they're still going at it.. To much in-house software that doesn't work with Vista.

I am testing out Office 2007 with my systems, also testing Vista on other system to see how it goes..

Imagine a company that has well over 300 apps they use. Now imagine around the begining of last year was when XP has been certified for most of the apps. This is a place i work for...and the place b4 where we push out the PC;s we started configuring Vista PC's and now things are starting to change. I'll do my Vista thing in about another 1-2 years.

I've never had any problems with Vista since I've been using it, and when I have it's usually been hardware releated on my end.

Like some have said above, the main problem with Vista is users hardware setup. I've been round PC World a few times and looked at the PC's running Vista in there and they only just barely can run Vista, so naturally if you're going to buy Vista on one of them computers, it's not going to run well at all.

Vista on a mid to high range computer can run well and with a few tweaks with programs such as Vista Manager, it can run well with little problems. UAC (the security popups) can get annoying but they can be turned off, and UAC should only really be used if you don't have your own firewall. (If you do turn UAC off, then remember to turn off security alerts in Security Centre as well!)

Windows XP

I have a Windows XP and it works perfectly if you don't start speaking about games...

I'd go with XP, I've heard Vista has a lot of problems.

XP all the way, i dont like the way vista uses so many resources.

SuperFetch service, my friend. It's how Vista is made to work and it looks bad at first, but when you read about it, it all makes sense.

I guess. Im still not used to it. It always seems to block this or ask this or not allow this or that. i guess im jsut used to doing whatever i please in XP without any notice or block. seriously the first thing i disabled when i got vista as the UAC. my god its annoying, ticked me off so much.

I personally prefer xp

just put xp on it until windows actually starts doing something with Vista

If your a newbie and never used windows go vista. If you like to get work done and understand windows go XP.

Swords Sir, or Pistols.......

Actually you never "duel" boot. A "duel" is two men fighting to the death (or thereabouts) with a pair of chosen weapons.

Now "dual" booting is accomplished by installing two operating systems on different partitions of the HDD (or 2 separate HDDs).

This thread is a must read; http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic76345.html

Vista absoulutly fine. Everything went bad after a new mobo... reinstall, everything is fine. THERE IS ONE VEERY IMPORTANT THING: Vista reccomended system ram is 2 GB. Any less and you'll have a slow system. 512 Mb for vista won't do it.

I have Vista and even run games that say they may not be compatible with it without any trouble at all.

Well.....

It's still pretty much more DRM with a bunch of "Windows" dressing. (Aero Glass). Great pun huh?