No, I bought a brand new laptop with Vista. It’s crap. I hate it. I can’t find anything. And it’s bug-infested. I needed to replace my old Windows ME desktop, and just bought a used desktop off eBay with XP, redone to original factory configuration, with factory recovery disks included. No way am I ever buying anything with Vista on it again, and no I’m not interested in “downgrading” to the far superior XP. Microsoft needs to quit fixing that aren’t broke, and start fixing things ARE broke. The notion that they will now “solve” many of the problems of later Windows versions by inviting users to run multiple operating systems on the same computer is patently idiotic.
What *bugs* did it have and how much memory did the laptop have?
Patently idiotic? What’s patently idiotic is maintaining a legacy platform that continues to bloat and bloat and then allow in place installs to add to the bloat. MS is dead right on this and the tech community, the ones who are actually knowledgeable, have been saying that they needed to do this for years. Apple did the exact same thing when they went OS X and VM software has been around for a while. Besides I highly doubt by the sound of it that you will be changing your OS anytime soon, probably for a decade if you held on to that pile of steaming filth called Windows ME for that long.