I've been determined to catch up and learn a little, but it's been hard. One thing that surprises me though, is that having wandered the vast network of streets in the town of Vista, I'm slowly getting to find places that have some merit. Trouble is, they were so hard to find that I've scant memory of where some of them are, but I'll find my way back, they're worth getting to know.
The folks on this forum, have been most helpful, as has a pal in the UK. He has me leaning hard towards scrapping Vista for XP pro. He has spent his entire working life designing and teaching major OSs, and knows when the framework of a system is...flawed? Not his word and I'm not qualified to say, but it's sort of what he said. He does not like Vista. Really does not like it.
Getting the drivers? Does the downgrade state that it's tailored for your intended purchase, so that every last thing goes when you make the change. I got caught out on the internal modem. Went to send a fax...ho, hum, another half hour figuring out where that driver had gone. Oh, and I had no sound. Just little things.
Others on here would be better qualified to say if you should format the drive. I would, but now, can you make a backup disk before you scrap Vista? Would it mean that it had to be unpacked before you made the back up? I guess it would - unless you used some other utility to copy the packed file. I'm guessing that you don't get any Vista disks.
I'm hit with the fact that the Sony just isn't what I expected. Spec's okay, but the quality of the case is just plastic nastiness. I just didn't look carefully enough in the noisy store. I'd assumed that the name would give me the excellence that I had grown used to with my 10 year old one. Solid, neat, and the best keyboard I've ever had. The new one bends as I type. Now I find that the HP 6000 is suited for cooking on. Sheeeesh! Glad things are advancing.
Let us know what you do.