I had my first full Vista crash this weekend. It happened when I was playing with the Windows Classic interface that sends any Vista desktop back in time to when I were a lad [sic].

My whole system froze, without any other programs open, while I was adding toolbars to the taskbar. There was no way back other than to kill the power. The 2000 look is one of the best in my opinion, but I suspect Microsoft spent less time working on it than Aero and as a result it's less stable.

Microsoft's decision to replace the 'Start' writing with a Windows flag in Vista confuses a lot of novice users when they try to get on with their work, so the classic look is definitely in demand.

It was a stupid decision for MS to have to select Start to shutdown in the first place, but it has become ingrained in many minds who couldn't care less.