PC World shows us how to make the switch back to Windows XP and deal with the gnarly problem of transferring your Vista e-mail, contacts, and user data back to the old standby operating system:
“After exploring Windows Vista for about six months on my test-bed PC, I decided two months ago that, along with upgrading the motherboard and CPU in my main work machine, I’d “upgrade” to Microsoft’s latest operating system. Vista’s new navigation features had slowly grown on me, though I hadn’t tried to work daily with the OS. Vista’s appearance has it all over standard XP, and there are tons of usability features that beckon–after you turn off the incredibly annoying User Account Control that constantly bugs you when you want to install programs or tweak things.”
For example, I love being able to shut down with one click; I like the junk filtering in Windows Mail (Vista’s upgraded version of Outlook Express); and I appreciate the way I can easily drag User folders (formerly My Documents) to a new location so I can consolidate them with other data that I regularly back up.
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