I don’t know what caused the issue, but for some reason WinXP was moving to a slow crawl. Initially I thought it was related to it’s slow hardrive, but after a while it was apparent that something was slowing it down bad.

So I pulled out the Vista CD that Gateway sent me earlier this year, along with an associated driver CD and wiped the hardrive clean of all partitions so that the install could do it’s magic.

I know Vista is receiving a lot of bad press, and it’s big-news SP1 update is coming soon, but I’ve got to say that running it with the current updates and AGV isn’t that bad. Previous issues like my PC-Card software have been resolved, as just about everything has a version for Vista now.