First of all...... BOLLOCKS! I think you will find rc1 has been and gone many moons ago! It was released as a Public beta ages ago. So long ago, i now have a full retail version of vista sat infront of me working perfectly fine on my other hard drive. Where did BT dissaprove of it? Cause vista uses about the same amount of bandwidth as XP with WGA. It doesnt "scower" the net randomly at all. Ohh and MSN is not a peer 2 peer network at all. Ill think you find the that News Groups and Torrents are where vista has appeared from. And your data loss is probably your incompetance with computers, ive not had a single problem with vista running on my machine... Ohh and if you were stupid enough to run beta software on an active partition, then i point and laugh! Was just dumb! Neway I cant be arsed to go throuugh the ins and outs of how much shit your talking, seeing as i deal with dumb people all day!