^ yeah... well specifically, It's adobe CS3. I had it installed once in vista, but it keeps freezing at random times. then one day when I tried to start premiere, a message pops up saying "this program has stopped working, you need to uninstall and reinstall it" or something. then I tried, but it keeps on failing (couldn't be the disc, I've only used it once). after that I tried installing it on my home PC, which has XP, and it works without problem >_<
Yeah I agree with you though, Vista has a lot of potential and many useful features that XP doesn't have, but the amount of trouble I go through to enjoy those features is just not worth it right now... that's why I'm thinking of moving to XP, for now at least.
I've actually had this kind of experience when XP was first released, I moved from 98 to XP but found so many compatibility issues that I reverted back to 98 for some time... then after XP stabilizes I moved to XP again.
now the only thing I'm worried about is whether I can still use my recovery DVD if I've installed XP. if I can then I'll definitely try to install XP, and if anything goes wrong I can just recover vista from the DVD... any ideas whether this is possible?
thanks for the replies btw