To be honest, the comments from the Tom's staff just fuel more hate post. best to just ignore it.
And for the article, it has some good information, not enough depth, but good enough. it's for sure not for newbies, when you start running all kind of thrid party software to change stuff, delete stuff...modifying services etc...any one that know linux won't even touch vista, so a boot from linux to vista is just useless for most people...if you know enought linux...you probably geeky enought to know how to find a solution to fix your vista problem.
As for the title, it's really misleading for sure. Almost like newspaper title to mislead so that you will read the article.
this is a article to tune vista, not 10 problem vista has.
USB 1.0 , 2.0? you know it when your transfer is like 50x slower...even retard will know. turning off services or boot program is a task for experience people.... you always has to google each
program to find out what it is and you make your decision if you want it off....there is no one site or template that works for everyone since no one has the same configuration exactly.
Most common problem are not mentioned here, like vista
security warnings, turn off indexing, problem with searches or slow file copy etc... which sp1 fix most already.
I have been using vista since day 1 on 6 matchines at home and 1 was a server that run 24/7 ...so far there is nothing major happens and it's a much more stable and secure than xp. might not be fastest, but that's the price you get for security. (like airport security check...the more the slower) As for driver, never install from CD and always download latest version and make sure it works for vista.
I have install all kind of hardware and most time the driver for vista won't be that bad...the only time I had trouble was bad apple
itune that give blue screen with hp driver ...I can tell you most crashes are due to bad 3rd party softwares...which is out of control of MS. You got your choice of many hardware so you suffer the result of sub-standard sofware. How much do you think the company paid for software programmer when they charge you 15$ for a memory stick or a mouse...you get what you paid for when you buy from non-major brands.