I wasn't using Aero as my graphics card a TI4200 doesn't support it on my old PIII machine.

What's not to like? I think Vista is much slower on older hardware. The constant popups that require you to click a button before making changes to the system are annoying (you can disable this, but it's still annoying)... That said it is a "security feature" so perhaps this annoyance will be worth it.

As Reverend stated, driver support isn't as good as XP, software support is also suffering (though software makers are rushing out beta Vista versions).

For reference of troubles:

http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.ph...atibility_List

There are bugs as well, but then this is still Beta software.

Vista just looks like a reworked or refined XP. It will take time to get used to some of the changes. Like how the control panel is layed out, how to change some settings, access features and so on. But it is not so dramatic that you'll cringe in fear.

One other gripe I had was with the shutdown. I have had the habit of clicking the lock button for shutdown, but in Vista it puts your PC to sleep instead. You have to click another right arrow list button to pull out the expanded shutdown options, and there you click shutdown to completely shutdown the machine. I don't like that. It's like Microsoft want you to put your machine to sleep rather than completely shut it down....