It was typically only wireless that got fucked up, even when that was true, which it no longer is. Yes, it's slower than 7 - but not so much that it's worth forking out for 7 on a middling-vintage lappy which is already running Vista. Removing updates isn't a 'fix' - it's avoidance, and potentially dangerous depending on the update. A fix is finding the incompatability and sorting it out. Updates, in and of themselves, break neither vista nor virus checkers. When previously-working programs cease to work after an update, it's generally because a previously-broken thing has been fixed within the OS, causing it to function slightly differently - but things can't stay broken simply to retain compatability with programs whose developers can't be arsed to patch their product. Glitches ain't always the fault of the OS.

I don't use vista, but I do have to support it, and whilst it has very little to actually recommend it over XP or 7, it really ain't that bad anymore.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 15:27, Reply)