Hi guys, I just picked up a Sony Viao laptop with windows vista installed. I don't like it!!! I don't have any machines with Vista and I never will. This has to be the most assinine system they could have made. I know that 7 is a lot better but I don't think I want to upgrade I think I should format and start from scratch. I have a couple of new copies of xp that I think I want to use, unless someone out there seriously recommends that I don't. I haven't done a formatting in a very long time though, where should I start? I am going to save some files on an external harddrive first so is there any system files I should save? Also what is the procedure to format a hard drive these days. any suggestions or sites I should visit first please let me know....THANKS