the most is that i'm the one and only user of this PC, and yet i have to laboriously dig around my C:, my personal user folders, as well as "shared", etc. folders to find my own files that i'm looking for. in XP, i could just click "My Docs", or "Program Files", etc., and now i have to spend 3+x time finding the right "user" folder and/or HD i.e. C:/Computer just to find simple files of my own. it has me running in circles, and i find the structure of the new Windows Explorer interface frustrating, on top of the frustration of *within* Explorer finding the right User or "Public" files. ie.: i just dumped MP3s from my old PC onto my new vista pc, only to find that i placed them in the wrong "music" directory, and none of them showed up in Media Player, let alone all in the same universal "music" folder. it's like a dang idiot folder hunt to find most files in the confusing new, extraneous user/file interface. in XP it was a snap. in Vista, i'm either missing something, or they've just plain over-complicated things in their new "user friendly" OS. i'm no novice, and i'm no master; though i must say a good friend who owns a PC company in town swears he'll not install Vista on any PC that leaves his shop because of such absurd complications. -oh yeah, i also turned off UAC hoping to avoid crap, but still have