It is hard for me to imagine that anyone's Vista install works fast. I reinstalled Vista twice hoping to make a difference.
I've never used XP on mine but I can honestly say that I'm having no probs with the performance of Vista. I use Control Panel all the time and have never waited 45 seconds for it to load. As I've mentioned in previous posts, I watch a lot of DivX videos and as long as I watch them using either GOM Player or Real Player then I'm fine. I also use iTunes on a daily basis (which is fairly resource intensive) and the other apps I run alongside it run fine (i.e. Thunderbird, Firefox, PDFs, et cetera). Maybe I'm just lucky.
Stu
