[infra_red_dude]

hmmm installed vista basic on a spare partition. except the boot time other things are pretty fine on my system. did install office 2k7 trial too. its running fine. i haf 32mb shared. except that it takes a long time to boot other things are just fine. theres minimal lag and its pretty usable. guess i can recommend it to him!

only thing is that i'm not able to get vista standard theme (all 3d effects and transperencies off, just the title bar and buttons) its only vista basic. my gfx is not aero compliant but vista standard is the default theme i guess. i tried the registry work around but its not working.