Now that I’m back home for a few weeks, the time has finally come to remove remove Windows Vista from my desktop. While I appreciate the rich GUI and new functionality (photo gallery), the computer is just too slow to be usable. Plus, my MCE <-> Xbox 360 connection has been unreliable. The media extender connectivity issues could be due to my network config, but the generally sluggish performance of Vista seems out of my control. I’m not entirely sure what the problem is… I know Vista is resource intensive, but I bought this PC last fall (Vista certified!) and the hardware specs are decent (the machine was blazing under XP). The final straw came last weekend when recording that TiVo animation. I couldn’t do it using Windows Movie Maker – the Vista edition has dropped analog recording. (I ended up capturing via BeyondTV and trimming the clip with WMM.) Bah! Back to XP…