Hi everyone, this is my first time here. As all previous posts, I too am having massive issues with this vista. I just bought my laptop Asus Pro31F, and am having the same problems with myspace, disconnecting me each and everytime. Other things I have noticed is that it takes longer to boot up, pages download alot slower. I cant play dvd's, they come up all scrambled, checked out a few forums aboutt that issue, and its a copyright issue where they are trying to prevernt pirating ?? Laptop came with a digital usb tv tuner, and that too doesnt work. It's a pain in the *** each and everytime you change any sort of settings, eg. font size, you have to re-start the computer. I work for BigPond (please dont hold that against me) lol...and the cusotmers that I have spoken to are having the same problems, I was told by our tech team that the problems are only for new sign up customers for vista, and if they had a previous account with any other ISP it would work thru the ethernet. This is not true. I spoke to a customer last week who was in tears while she was waiting for her adsl to be remediated. Customer had been hand balled back and fourth to tech support and billing upto 7 times. She was with another provider, but decided to take up our offer for free modem. Customer was also business customer who relied heavily on her computer for a internet connection. I am a billing consultant, I am not a technical minded person at all but I finally found the instructions on how to walk her thru the problem and attempt to set her up with a temp dial up account till her adsl issues were sorted out. I went so far into the tech stuff I didnt know what was talking about, but I read it word for word from the script. I called her 15 minutes later to see if it was working, and it wasnt. She told me that every single tech person she spoke to told her a different story and one tech was even honest enough to tell her flat out, sorry we cant help you as we have not be trained in that area yet. As someone who works for such a big company like Telstra Bigpond, I cant believe that microsoft would release software out into the general public before they give us the software so we can update ours. This really makes my head spin. To be totally honest, when customers in the past would ring up about not being able to connect I would help them to the best of my ability but I didnt have it in me to be able to empathise with them. Well now I do, with every disgruntled caller telling me vista is crap, I totally understand and explain to them my situation, its only then that they look at me as a person and not a telstra robot. Untill they sort out all these issues, (if they ever do) vista is not worth the money you pay to upgrade, and makes XP look like a dream and alot more modern and easier to use. I got the best deal with my computer at Myer (can you believe that) ?? And I just called them and told them the probs, they are going to call Asus and call me back. Will let you all know the verdict. For the money I paid for this laptop, I am thinking of telling them that I want XP installed and refunded the money for the vista. A kind friend has lent me his laptop so I can go to my beloved myspace and hopefully talk to all you myspace junkies there. Would love to hear from you and see if your problems have been fixed. My URL is ...... http://www.myspace.com/deedeepanache