Last week I helped a friend with his new Vista powered HP box from Costco . . . interesting.

1) We tried the "Easy File Transfer" method via a wired network to get the settings from the older HP P4 tower running XP . . . that failed (kept crashing) and I wasn't going to hack up or buy a USB transfer cable . . . so, instead I ended up creating and importing PST files (mail, contacts, etc) and redoing all the settings manually.

2) No Vista drivers or support software for his HP flatbed scanner . . .

3) Property management software not Vista compliant, so we had to create an XP partition to dual boot.

I had to laugh that the HP comes with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse.