Microsoft's newest operating system (aside from the Windows7 beta released recently) Vista, has gotten the worst rap of an operating system. Well, that's if you don't count the notorious XP when it first came out, especially the SP2 release. And now everybody wants to go back to XP and no one will touch Vista.

There are several arguments against Vista. The one I hear the most is how much of a system drain it is. While this is arguably true, it may not be as bad as you think. If you disable all of the graphics effects it runs well on only 512 mb's of ram. And for those who have upwards of...