Having recently changed from a P5W to P5K board and WinXP to Vista x64 I have been doing some googling for info and you may find this of use if you are running or thinking of installing Vista on the P5W.
This is a link to a great guide which will let you tune Vista http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=24912. These tools are also useful TweakUAC and EASYBCD v1.6. TweakUAC lets you switch off or supress UAC - EAsy BCD has numerous tools and allow configuration of multi boot with other operating systems.
Multiboot with WinXP - I found that just installing Vista x64 in a seperate partition on boot drive with Winxp caused HD data corruption - seemingly this is a know problem and EASY BCD is the solution. Here is a link to a complete multiboot install guide. http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista
Acronis disk manager is another tool that will also shrink the Winxp partition to allow creation of another on the boot drive.
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