Been using vista for a little over 9 months and at first had the usual hard drive issues. And as most people have mentioned, I've disabled indexing, superfetch etc etc. All seems ok. Boot up time is ok. The only time my boot up time goes well over a few minutes is if I have my external Western Digital hard drive on. There is an issue with some external drives and vista.
On the whole vist is alot slower than XP though. Networking is a pain, and simple programs do take a while to load sometimes, ie firefox.
So why did Microsoft release Vista? Why do we continue to use it? Why don't I revert back to XP 64 which for me was fine!!! Why oh why?