If Vista crashes so much for you, it's probably due to bad drivers for your hardware... You should try to upgrade your drivers, especially the graphics card one.

Vista per se is not unstable at all, in fact I have never seen it crash. There must be something else causing your crashes.

My Vista installations never go down, I can't even recall a single crash which wasn't related to faulty hardware on my 24/7 HTPC I built over a year ago. I only ever have to restart it for Windows Updates.

I have to agree with NJ5 and Squlliam on Vista stability. We have only one customer that uses Vista for their business, and I get far fewer support calls from them than any of my other customers (who run XP Pro). Also, none of their Vista computers have ever had a virus or crash in the two years I've been working with them, while the one XP machine they have has had two viruses.

IMO, the only thing that was lacking with Vista was performance (runs great on a beefy system, not so great on a basic system) and compatibility. I believe MS has addressed both of these issues with 7.

I've been using it since its beta and I like it a lot so far. My only issue so far is that when I look at some of my hard drives it just laggs and never opens it up. I have to go back and re-open it...

other than that I really want to get it when it comes out.

My Vista works better than my past XP install (that worked fine), it starts in like 30 seconds, but if I can get better performance with 7, I'll get it. I haven't installed most of my games because I'm waiting for it's release.

Make sure all of your hard drives are formatted in the NTFS file system (if you select the drive with a single click in Computer, it will show the file system at the bottom). If they are already NTFS, run a checkdisk on the drives having problems (right click the drive, Properties, Tools, Check Now, check the 'Automatically Fix Filesystem Errors' box, click Ok. You may have to restart the computer depending on what drive you're trying to check.)

@ Italic comment. I totally agree with you, lol. More viruses are programmed for the most prevelant OS, simple fact. Linux and OSX may be somewhat less vulnerable because of this, but they are by no means immune. For those that believe the utter nonsense that viruses simply 'can't run' on their pet platform, I present a quick list of known viruses for Linux.

The following is a partial list of known Linux malware. Known malware is not the only or even the most important threat: new malware or attacks directed to specific sites can use vulnerabilities not previously known to the community or not previously used by malware.

[edit] Trojans

• Kaiten - Linux.Backdoor.Kaiten trojan horse^[13]
• Rexob - Linux.Backdoor.Rexob trojan^[14]

[edit] Viruses

• Alaeda - Virus.Linux.Alaeda^[15]
• Bad Bunny - Perl.Badbunny^[5][16]
• Binom - Linux/Binom^[17]
• Bliss
• Brundle^[18]
• Bukowski^[19]
• Diesel - Virus.Linux.Diesel.962^[20]
• Kagob a - Virus.Linux.Kagob.a^[21]
• Kagob b - Virus.Linux.Kagob.b^[22]
• MetaPHOR (also known as Simile)^[23]
• Nuxbee - Virus.Linux.Nuxbee.1403^[24]
• OSF.8759
• Podloso - Linux.Podloso (The iPod virus)^[25][26]
• Rike - Virus.Linux.Rike.1627^[27]
• RST - Virus.Linux.RST.a^[28]
• Satyr - Virus.Linux.Satyr.a^[29]
• Staog
• Vit - Virus.Linux.Vit.4096^[30]
• Winter - Virus.Linux.Winter.341^[31]
• Winux (also known as Lindose and PEElf)^[32]
• Wit virus^[33]
• ZipWorm - Virus.Linux.ZipWorm^[34]

[edit] Worms

• Adm - Net-Worm.Linux.Adm^[35]
• Adore^[36]
• Cheese - Net-Worm.Linux.Cheese^[37]
• Devnull
• Kork^[38]
• Linux/Lion
• Mighty - Net-Worm.Linux.Mighty^[39]
• Millen - Linux.Millen.Worm^[40]
• Ramen worm
• Slapper^[41]
• SSH Bruteforce^[42]