I’ve had vista for almost a year now, hated it for the first couple months. Now I have it to where I like it. Turn off some of the Vista protection as it’s an annoying overkill. Had to turn something off to get StatsRemote to work. Had to upgrade some of the software that wouldn’t work with it, my scanner still won’t work with it. But other than my scanner, everything works fine with it now.
Once you get it running the way you want it and get used to it, things will be a lot better.