LOL wow, Vista hater. Win7 > XP in almost every way. Every machine that I've clean booted with Win 7 has run better than XP ever did. Also all that "restrictive nonsense" should have been implemented in XP when it came out. Full driver signing support, UAC (better compromise than Vista), better memory management, better critical memory isolation etc etc etc, too many to mention. Anyone who hates Win7 has not given it a chance other than saying "Waaaaaaa my 10 year old games/programs don't work in Windows 7 IT SUCKS " are morons. I've personally used all three of these OSes for years and still have Vista on one of the computers here in the office. XP is the last OS I'd want to use, it's buggy, it's a mess of DLLs (DLL Hell). XP has been around for almost a decade now, of course people are going to know the ins and outs of the OS better than the new ones. Use the new one till you are used to it, also Win7's GUI is >>>>>>>>>>>> than XP's. I can get anywhere I want in the OS just by typing a few things in the search box in the start menu. This one feature alone is amazingly useful. Man I could go on and on about it, but I'll stop here. This is my opinion based on experience troubleshooting several OSes, and in that time it's clear to me that Win 7 stands head and shoulders above XP in almost every way.