After two hours trying to get to run on Vista, I have to agree with the OP. Vista is the biggest pile of that came out of MS for a long time. None of the ing programs are compatible with it. I tried for hours to disable the Vista nannies and road blocks hoping the programs would work, but after two hours some stuff still does work right (namely 1ClickDVD Copy Pro). So Vista, unless every ing DRM and restrictions are cracked, I won't be touching it even if it means no gaming on PC. I'll save my ing money and buy all three consoles.