Back To Xp?

I've actually been running Vista for about half a year to 3/4 of a year now. I've not had much problems with it. The only issues I have with it are an incredibly slow restart time. For some reason it takes a LONG time to shut down. I've clocked a few times where, from the time I press "restart" to the time I'm logged back into Vista and it finish loading, and it's approached the 3 minute mark a few times. I've since then gotten used to it though. I haven't had any problems, but opening up task manager and seeing 88 processes just seems a bit excessive. It's not slowing my system down, but that may be because I've got a relatively speedy computer. I've had no issues with drivers, and I've had relatively few issues with applications. Most, if not all, of those apps were fixed when I just got a newer version.

Part of the issue might also be that I "upgraded" to Vista from XP because I was too lazy to reinstall all of my applications. That might be causing problems now, but from my experience, I haven't had much go bad with Vista.

EDIT: Personally, I have UAC off. I really don't feel like being asked every time I launch a program or connect to anything to confirm my actions.

Jam it back in, in the dark.