Just in case you did not know you can turn off that annoying UAC in vista..

Simply go To your control panel and into User accounts and you will find the option to turn UAC on and off then just reboot and your good.

In my experience both Vista and ME are not good at all. both are so so versions of Win2k Pro in my opinoin. I was a big fan of Win2k Pro. I only recently upgraded to WinXP its ok but thats as far as I will go. I will wait until all of the bugs are worked out of Vista before I even think about moving over to it.

Perhaps a downgrade, to XP is needed. Using your Vista serial number, with the appropriate XP installation disc is possible [per MS representative directly] and should fix all the badness you’re experiencing. If later, you decide Vista is OK, say, after Service Pack 1, you can use it then.

Why not just upgrade to XP? My parents were ready to give away their HP 8800 with Windows Millennium, until I upgraded it to WIN XP, now I get no complaints. I upgraded my Gateway Solo 5300 Notebook not only with XP, but fully switched over to the NTFS format, and it ran smoother than it ever did before. For the home user, I hear only WIN Vista Ultimate provide Unix support. However, as a rule of thumb, I never upgrade to a new MS OS until its been out a year, and all the bugs have been worked out!

I mean I could make ME work, but I had to constantly schedule scandisk every other odd day, and disk defragmenter every even day just to make it work, and it had no built in firewall.

I’ve been happy with XP. I don’t see myself going over to Vista until I get a newer Notebook that already has it.

I’m not sure I have a serial number for Vista. I will look for that. I would be willing to try XP. I helped my Mom get started wtih that. It can be made to look just like ME and then it ran fine for her.

I think the only real changes MS is making to each new OS are heavier and useless graphical interfaces. If ME wasn’t made obsolete it would work just as well as XP or Vista.

I will turn off the UAC today and see if that helps things. It really is aggravating to have a new PC running slower than the old one was. Why would MS think people would like this? Are they just that deluded!

Thank you for your helpful comments. :)

I don’t think Vista has it’s own firewall either. I was pushed to let it run Symantec when I first turned the computer on. I don’t like Symantec first cause it gets pushed on you and second cause it is only a trial and then you have to get it unstuck from your computer. I was using a free firewall with ME which worked just fine.

It’s funny that you had trouble with ME. I only ran defrag a couple of times in all the years I ran ME. I reformatted about once a year but that was mainly to get rid of my own clutter as it forced me to back up what I really wanted to keep and dump all the other junk I thought was important at the time.

Hey,
I found your site while doing a Vista - Ubuntu search on Google.
I am a Mac person from way back, but bought a Dell with Vista Home Premium so I could afford a laptop.
In a word… Vista (you put your favorite word here, mine would be in the 4 letter catagory)
Ubuntu looks like THE ANSWER. I have the disks but not the smarts.
So my long question is.. How high is the chance that I will totally screw up my laptop if I wipe the drive and attempt to partition it to allow for both systems? Vista and Windows are both so demanding of things I just don not understand.
Any comments welcome. Thanks

Hi, could any one of you has been able to install ubuntu on dell vostro 1500 with vista pre installed?