> I understand that Vista is an exceptional piece of
> shit and ...
> - but this is what I am stuck with for a while, and
> spending over $1000 for a new computer that runs some
> alternative to Vista OS is not an option for me at the
> moment.
Can you replace Vista with something better? Any machine that will run Vista will almost certainly run XP Linux. XP will run most software that Vista will, and Linux has other software for most of the jobs you want.
-- Sandy Harris, Nanjing, China