I whipped my Vista as hard as I could... Got it to make to sets of recovery image CDS in case of a crash. Pickup some free WI-fi the first few months I had it. Seems to run ok unless you have allot of task running... Then it takes memory and processor. I'm using an hp... Pavilion ...Anyhow nice to meet you hope t chat again....Best of luck with your new PC. Heres a quick tip....You can actually tun off your Internet Explorer through your task manager... and still run games on your desktop. In doing this it speeds up your machine if you are running low memory or have a slow processor. Internet explorer sux. Get Fire FOX for Internet! Mozilla !