My friend went back to XP recently.
In fact here's a new story of my experience with Vista. I'm sure you remember the one where it removed my networks with the click of a button...
Well this time I tell msconfig to stop booting Daemon on startup and next time I came on this notepad thing I removed ages ago suddenly returned. (It's a free typing thing that was installed with the tablet...I never even had a choice) Anyway I ignored it for the day and tried printing my work only to find my printer driver was also messed...
Anyway it all happened because Windows Defender (Vista's gay toy) blocked that window that says "Hey you changed some stuff...You sure?"
A simple reboot solved it but to think none of this crap ever happened on XP.
Anyway same old desktop except I used this pic for my background:
http://www.interlopers.net/images/misc/ep2_outland_120002.jpg