Tom there is little choice for the end user but to bite the bullet as you have. In a way it is a good thing because if an adjuster has a hard crash or it gets stolen he is going to be forced to run out grab a new computer and it will be Vista.

One product that kept my XP and now Vista running smoothly is Executive software diskeeper defragmentation system. It defrags your system and when set in automatice defrag, continues to defrag while working. Works much better and more reliable than MS defrag. This is their 30 download trial website. Copy and paste into browser.

http://consumer.diskeeper.com/downloads/Downloads.aspx?RId=1&SId=2&CId=13&Aeid=&Apid=

I understand that M/S has a SP1 download to fix some of the Vista problems. It is in beta, so I will wait a month or so after its release to download. It's about time they fixed some of the Vista problems, however, knock on wood, I have not had that many problems with this new HP laptop. Just need some work to keep it busy. MSB Integraclam and Xactware install just fine. John says Simsol is having no problems with install and Powerclaim is ok with it.