Bloody Vista-third time lucky maybe?

Just bought another laptop with Vista on it, the story so far is this is the third one in just over a year, the first one was an insurance replacement in September 07 which I ended up selling on ebay, at that point I couldnt do anything productive with it like video editing or photoshop as all these programmes used to crash on the early version of Vista, bought another one six months later same prob (Sent it back to amazon and bought an HP laptop with XP installed ) and now have a got one, another HP laptop, with 4g ram and 350 HD for 400 nicker from ebuyer (who I seem to be buying exclusively from at the moment, just a printer from there today), it can dual boot but Im gonna try and do some editing and image work with it this week before loading XP (which in itself could be quite torturous) I’ll let you know what happens, for normal every day stuff, WP, internet its fine except I have to reboot the router as it seems to forget how to log on which is a pain in the arse.