Fighting against Windows Vista

Last week Leandra bought a new notebook... of course, by default it cames with Windows, moreover, the Vista version.

It seems almost impossible to get into this new operating system.

1. One is used to use a bunch of different programs in, let's say XP... but they don't work in this new plataform. Ex.: Real Audio. Furthermore, WMP is not allowed to play such a format.
2. If you wanna install a free antivirus... that's an Odyssey (at least for me).
3. Vista is felt to be slower than its antecedent XP.
4. Among others...

But at the end I could install (after a lot of work) AVAST's antivirus, JAVA, MIKTEX, TEXMAKER, GV, and certain programs I use frequently.

Nevertheless, Vista has an advantage over XP, it has all the needed installation `codex' for the printers, USB, et cetera.