Well I thought I would finally upgrade to Windows Vista so recently ran the vista upgrade suggestion program which suggested that I got home version (pfft). Anyway I have just put Vista Ultimate on my pc yesterday, only thing is the rating is down a bit due to using an old IDE hard drive and lacking in RAM (I wanted to upgrade before putting Vista on), but still I thought I would install Vista Ultimate just to try it out more than anything.
As soon as I put it on I had the Service Pack on a usb stick so installed that right away before anything else, then went through the normal things you do when installing Windows and put Comodo Firewall on and antivirus, this was all before I setup the network properly. I also installed the Nvidia latest Drivers and tried to find some drivers for my Sound Card, managed to get the 'Card' working, but there seems to be no Driver support for the Live Drive which means I have no option for recording my Guitar or a microphone port...
I then thought 'hmm I better setup the network and get all the updates for windows', what a bad idea as soon as the updates were installed (or some of them) after the first reboot windows would no longer see my network or gateway.. Found out that with a certain update Windows Vista stops Comodo Firewall from working for some unknown reason. So I had to un-install Comodo and re-setup the network, then reboot about 3 times before Vista wanted to see my Network and Gateway!
Anyway I finally got the Network working and installed the rest of the updates, I decided to test out Gaming on Vista straight away and installed Command and Conquer 3. Got into the game and setup the settings with everything on Full, and the graphics on Ultimate. I noticed a bit of a difference between Vista and XP for gaming. I don't know if it's just this game but the game seemed to run a little bit faster and I found copying files a bit better on Vista.
With all the problems I faced in installing Vista I think I am actually going to use it as soon as I get my RAM upgrade, when I do I shall install it on my SATA hard drive but for now I am going to stick to XP as the RAM useage in Vista seems a bit of a problem even when running a overclocked Dual Core system.