Justin: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I seriously doubt that you will be able to get the currently supported version of Sibelius which is vers8ion 3 with the sibelius speaking scripts to work with windows vista. There has only been a small amount of testing with sonar 6 with ct6 under vista. While SOnar certainly supports it, the few users that have tried it have reported some issues. And let me add to that the fact that you have a DEL, which tends to present its own problems. Some Del machines won't even let you install a different copy of windows on them because they use so much proprietory hardware. I can only wish you the best. Most companies who build machines specifically set up for music and high-end audio work are still sying away from Vista. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Justin Kauflin To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 6:16 PM Subject: [ddots-l] OT: Vista+JAWS8 Hello, this is sort of off topic, but I purchased a Dell Laptop and wasn't given an option to get XP on as the operating system. I'm writing to find out if anyone else has ventured out into the new and unstable world of Windows Vista and how is that going? I would really like some help in getting this to work out a little better. I am hoping to get Sibelius and Sonar on this laptop and am very weary of huge conflicts. If nobody has any experience with Vista, would anybody have any suggestions on reinstalling XP on the same laptop on a different partition? Thanks for any help with this. Justin kauflin