For the love of all thats holy, dont install Vista!

Why don't yu get over your Vista "BS" I've been using it for over a year and find it to be the easiest by far to use, remember "XP" died the other day ! "NOW WHAT" Vista haters?

I'm not having too many problems using Vista either - Been using it over a year myself.

The biggest thing I tweaked that made the biggest difference was turning off User account control and shutting down unneeded scheduled tasks

It is common for military computers to be way behind the curve. It takes years to design and acquire these systems and more time and money to upgrade and each upgrade means that the piece of hardware is out of line until it is finished.