■right click on a network share - map network drive ■idividually change the volume of any app from the audio mixer ■install raid drivers from HDD/USB/Anything during setup! ■process manager shows process's location, description, and has a *much* better resource monitor ■amount of free space etc shown on mapped drives ■*huge* thumbnails.. useful for my photo's folder ■translucent gui - not just the obvious explorer blur - install sisoft sandra to see a good example ■really nice preview icons for avi's.. xp had this, but they're ultra hi-res in vista ■ever seen the 'genie' effect when minimizing in OSX? Vista has something similar, but more toned down. effective, but not over the top. ■seems to boot equally as quick as my xp install, which is nLite'd to the max! I'm liking it so far, just wish nVidia would release some comparable drivers to xp!