I finally had enough of it. It was eating everything like an all-you-can-eat buffet, it started to get a bit wobbly and needed some encouragement to get walking.

Yes, I’ve jumped back to Windows XP. After five months of running Vista, annoying things that I tried to push to the back of my mind I just couldn’t take anymore. My computers got this weird snap in its step now - I open the start menu and it just appears. I open My Computer, and my hard drive isn’t churning. It’s refreshing. In fact, I can’t hear my hard drive clicking over for once. I press buttons on my keyboard and they worked. I didn’t have to overwrite official drivers with older ones to get my sound card to work. It’s like a strange new world, that feels familiar.

I finally did it. I finally made it back to XP.

(Update: And I’m already missing the search!)