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Hi Brownsfan. That's a good question. It really depends on the user. If someone has only the basic IT knowledge and doesn't want to try new thing, don't try the RC stuff. Is much more stable than a typical Beta release (I've been using it for several weeks) but it's not final. Otherwise, take a look at Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh Public Availability Program. Thanks,

Hi. This thread started almost a year ago and I hope people solved their problems with Windows Vista (without changing back to Windows XP). I've Windows Vista Ultimate on the computer I used for Trading. If you have a recent computer or buy a new one I would recomend you use Windows Vista as long the software from your broker is compatible with Windows Vista. Regarding Office 2007 I'm using it since Beta 2 and I've had to admit that in the first coupple days I was a little bit lost. But it was only two days. After that it seems pretty intuitive and I can't miss the Conditional formatting on Excel 2007 to analyse my trades. For the people new to Office 2007, Microsoft has Interactive: Excel 2003 to Excel 2007 command reference guide that will show where are the old commands in the new Ribbon UI (in an Flash interactive guide). Please take a look at them. There are Interactive help guides for all the new 2007 versions. Interactive: Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide Interactive: PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 command reference guide By the way, if you install Windows Vista, please install the Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (RC) as it speed your machine a lot. If you need any help on Windows or Office, please just say so. Thanks,

Hi. I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate with Internet Explorer 7. IE7 on Vista comes with Protected Mode which is very cool to avoid some nasty malware/spyware. I used Firefox in the past but I've not seen a good reason to keep using it (other than anti-Microsoft fundamentalism...). Thanks,

Hi Don4. All the times I had to assembly a new PC I had lots of scratchs in my hands and spent lots of time. So, I choosed the components but I had no patience to assembly it. The store assembled it for me for free ;-) Maybe near by you, you can get the same or better components and ask them to assemble it for you too. I'm thinking in buy a new EN8800GT card and two more 22" monitors when my TradeStation subscription is ready. Thanks,

Hi. I bought my trading computer last month and I'm very pleased with it. Here's the description: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 cpu with 4 GB RAM. 150GB HD at 10.000 RPM SATA II for main drive (C: ) 500GB HD at 7.200 RPM SATA II for other data (D: ) Gigabyte EN8800GT graphics card with 512MB RAM 2 x Samsung 226BW (22" monitors) Windows Vista Ultimate. Cool Thanks,