Originally Posted by PTravel

I haven't, at least not since SP1 and, even before that, it was only in the first few weeks of use when there wasn't a lot of compatible software and hardware.

I did an interesting experiment today, though. On my 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo laptop equipped with Vista Business, I turned off all Vista effects. This laptop has always been reasonably fast -- certainly faster than any other machine in my house, including a 3.0 GHz P4 running XP. However, with the visuals turned off my laptop now screams! I've never seen anything like it -- all the pretty cosmetics really held that machine back.