I've had my Vista computer for 24 hours and so far I've only had one minor problem and that was with Rioxio's Drag and Drop error after the window's update that a lot of Dell owners are having. That issue is now resolved for me. So far everything seems to be running good for me.
As you can see by these many many posts about problems with Vista on this forum, you might be thinking, "Should I even get Vista?" My advice to everyone is to wait!!! Vista has simply not gotten all of its minor bugs fixed yet such as copy-and-pasting and graphical features. If you wait until fixes and other updates are released before buying it, it will save you a lot of heartache instead of spending days trying to set up the the new OS. Good luck!
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