Piling on Vista

[Husar]

Anyway, I just wanted to say I hate Vista. What a bloated, tottering blight of an operating system. One laptop took close to nine minutes from power-on to being usable. What the hell is that about? What, exactly, is MS loading into memory for all that time?

Could that be due to the bloat ware you mentioned later or was that a Pentium 166 laptop?
Mine doesn't even take half as long when it's in power saving mode.
SP1 also speeds the process up significantly.

And the UAC thing is just laughable. Does anyone not turn it off?

On this I agree, it's one of the first things I did/do in Vista, once it's off it doesn't bother you anymore though.

One more irritation I must rant about. What the heck is HP thinking, shipping hardware with a hundred little custom bits of bloatware clinging to their laptops like barnacles on a tanker?

Perhaps they get paid for spreading all that bloatware?