i know your pain.
i've been using vista for about a year, and it does have some pretty annoying 'features'
it's the only version of windows i've ever used that ever required an F5 refresh of the desktop to see changes.
it's also the only version i've ever used that required me to move a folder higher up in the filesystem hierarchy in order to add files to it because the path length would be 'too long', only to allow me to put the folder right back where i moved it from afterward
the folder views are beyond messed up. they're just plain busted and ms seemingly ha no desire to fix them
i recently switched from using a vga cable to a dvi cable for my lcd, which somehow managed to crash my AUDIO driver until i disabled the now unused (but still primary, wtf) vga output.
all of the features that used to be accessible as seperate tabs in xp's desktop properties window are now conveniently spread out over separate windows, including the completely unnecessary 'personalize' parent window. brilliant
i still can't figure out how to check my ip address without opening a command prompt
it forgets the preferred order of my gamepads, and disconnects them when it goes to sleep (sp1 mostly fixed this, though)
most of the games i've installed lock up if i try to launch them from the games explorer, which makes it utterly useless.
if i weren't so tired, i could probably come up with dozens of absurd problems i've had with it. sp1 went a long way towards making the os usable, but there are a lot of problems not related to bugs or incompatibility that will just never get fixed.
