http://blogs.technet.com/toml/archive/2009/06/30/ot-new-personal-laptop-experience.aspxSo I finally purchased a new laptop to replace our existing Toshiba Satellite Pro. The system is showing its age in its performance given the processor and memory, the experience we get the most and hate is when the system (many times just IE) hangs.en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/toml/archive/2009/06/30/ot-new-personal-laptop-experience.aspx#3264880Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:18:52 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3264880Jason Shave<p>I agree completely. I've noticed over the years that this has become increasinly worse. Unfortunately Windows Vista seems to be riddled with vendor software &quot;add-on&quot; garbage which slows down the PC and ultimately gives &quot;Vista&quot; a bad name.</p> <p>If you were to rewind a few years and ensure vendors kept it clean, I'm sure the world would think differently about the OS. </p> <p>Let's just hope they don't do the same with Windows 7.</p>