Agreed. When I bought my new computer about half a year ago, I booted it up with Vista, played a few games, the response time was terrible, then I opened the taskmanager and saw the huge chunk of RAM being allocated to the various spyware an commercial programs. uninstalled it immediately and went back to my 5 year old copy of XP. I won't switch back until absolutely every last game manufacturer abandons XP, then I'll go pull that copy of Vista off my partition.