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I like the Network Center and use it often.  No indication what type of problem you're having but thus far I've had no issues.

Driver problems I've encountered (briefly) have been related to Nvidia drivers.  If I stay with Display driver installed during Vista install all is fine.  If I install any of the updated Display drivers they usually screw things up.  The Nvidia Ethernet drivers installed originally work fine.  But, if I install the latest from MSUpdates, it breaks the Draw Full Network Map.

I've had no problems with Indexing

Ultimate Extras -  they'll be along soon.  I'm with Vista for the long haul and not too worried about MS meeting promises.

SP1..Fine but I'm not really having any serious problems that require SP1 immediately.

1. One Vista version.

This is one complaint that the mac fanboys have right about Vista. There's way too many versions of Vista. For example, there's no reason to have 2 business versions: business and enterprise. If your computer can't run Aero then stick with XP and don't get Vista Home Basic. Personally, I think there should be only one Ultimate version. There aren't huge differences between Home Premium and Ultimate to warrant such a huge price difference. I also think MS should allow everyone to upgrade to the 64 bit version. I bought my 64 bit compatible computer with Ultimate 32 bit, but there's no way for me to upgrade to the 64 bit version b/c my OEM doesn't provide that version and it's not an upgrade path. Microsoft should be aware that OEMs are cheap and are not going to go the extra mile for hardcore fans. That's why Microsoft should provide support in these case instead of relying on the OEMs. I think it is the OEMs that provide most of the ill will towards Microsoft.

2. Missing "Wow" factor in Media Center

I've had a Media Center computer since 2004 and I was expecting big things for Vista. I and many enthusiasts were sorely disappointed. Some of the things we hoped to see in Media Center were: Picture in Picture, more codec support, better (not worse) media library management , zune support, not losing the buffer when recording a channel, ability to pause one channel while channel surfing, multiple tuner support (3+), better movie/video management, user management (user tags) so I don't have to see all my nephew's TV programming but I can see my wife's shows if I chose to, ability to view ALL photo tags so I can narrow down my search: i.e. Photos tagged with "me" and "myWife" but not "Christmas", ability to edit Meta data of all video files, bigger clock so you can actually view it from 10 feet away, etc.

3. Photo Gallery

A few years ago, Channel 9 show cased a photo/media management tool that was really cool. It was called Photo Triage or Media Browser (Google it for more info.) I was hoping they would have something flashy like that in Vista. The few things missing in this version of Photo Gallery are: ability to view a bar graph of your photos by date, ability to easily search photos by their tags: i.e. Photos tagged with "me" and "myWife" but not "Christmas", ability to move photos around like a lightbox so you could make an album, easy way to make changes to tags, ability to assign a picture to a tag (Adobe Elements does this), etc..

4. Windows Explorer.

tabbed browsing of the windows explorer. It's so useful in Browsers. It's obvious that it would be useful with file exploring.

5.  The little stuff.

Like ability to connect my Windows Calendar to iCal Exchange, ability to choose what applications use what audio outputs, ability to use shadow copy like a version control system (where you could store notes along with a new version), dynamic dreamscenes as FREE Ultimate extras (i.e. desktops changing based on the weather and/or time of day)

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I have to agree with most of the comments here.

1. Lose the multiple versions and just settle with two at the most.  I never had a problem with XP and XP Pro.  Pretty simple.

2.  Family licensing:  For a household like mine which has several computers, a 3-pack of licenses at a reasonable price would be great  This is one thing I really like about OS X.

Those are my top two.

:)