Tavrobel, you described the experience perfectly!!!

I hate it with a passion but it came with my new PC so I'm leery of downgrading it to XP. But it is so bad a lot of people on the HP forum have already downgraded their laptops.

The worst part is the sound. My sound card has no good driver for Vista and I'm forced to use the new Windows Sound Mixer which reeks! It mixes all sounds with the mike input, making anything that plays on the laptop garbled with dog barks, kids runing around, etc... In echo!!! When I disable the mike - get this - it disables all sound.

Grrrrr!!!!