Originally Posted by meducate

Based on my personal experience, downgrade! I have a Sony Vaio TZ270 that came preloaded with Vista. Despite spending an inordinate amount of time removing the bloatware, the system was slow on start-up and shutdown, and ran many programs incredibly slowly. My IT department has encouraged me to use the downgrade that came with the computer when I first got it, but I wanted to use the latest and greatest. After 8 weeks I acquiesced and I could not be happier!! Everything is faster and I am happy!!^