I recently purchased a new Toshiba laptop with Vista preinstalled. The system runs with 502MB RAM / 32 bit with Intel Celeron 1.73GHz. As I've been hearing from everywhere, the OS runs incredibly slow. I've heard people addin RAM up to 4 GB with no increase in performance. I use WIndows XP on my desk computer. Is there a way to get rid of VISTA (since it really does suck a lot), and go back to XP? Thanks. USER OCCA

Open Power Options (its in the Control Panel) and then place a dot next to High Performance. Next: Open Device Manager (its in the Control Panel) and then right-click on your hard drive (under Disk Drives). Click on "Policies" and make sure there are check marks next to "Optimize for Performance", "Enable write caching on the disk", and "Enable advanced performance", then click OK. Next, perform a Disk Cleanup: Click on the blue Vista start button and then on the Computer entry in the Start Menu. Right-click on your hard drive and select Properties > Disk Cleanup > Files from all users..... More Options > Clean Up (System Restore and Shadow Copies). Consider installing addition RAM up to 2GB. Having a total of2GB RAM installed will significantly improve overall performance.Visit: http://www.crucial.com/and run the Crucial System Scanner Tool.