Without much emotional attachment, I am now on Vista. The good thing is, most softwares install on this OS. Bad? I am still getting around the flow of it. But gosh... talk about fancifully slow.
So here are some guides on tweaking and optimising which I cannot guarantee works.
At least my batch scripts still works here. Hehe. Cool...
http://www.tweakhound.com/vista/tweakguide/page_2.htm
http://www.iamshadowlord.com/2007/06/windows-vista-optimization.html
Getting rid of that annoying activeX popup in Alex, under "Removing the Internet Explorer Toolbar Alert":
http://www.databoysoftware.com/allow.html