I also have hated Vista because it is slow. I get PC World Magazine and also email articles from them. They recently sent me an article on how to turn off some of my used features. I turned them off on the 8th and so far so go. They have other articles that I plan to read and maybe implement in the future. Want to wait and see how this does over say a month. Anyway I'm including the link for the article for any one else wanting to speed Vista up even just a little.

www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/150079/12

The name of the article is - 12 Unnecessary Vista Features You Can Disable Right Now.

Hope this helps.