Death to Vista.

Yeah, installing games. Great. How about the fact that DirectX 10 is trash. Sure Direct3D has some cool new features, and games like Crysis look amazing, but what about the other DX10 components? DX10 no longer supports hardware-accelerated sound in order to "protect the kernel." (See: How to implement DRM.) In fact, getting any of the cool 3D audio/sound filters requires you to install a patch that uses OpenAL (the audio equivalent of OpenGL) instead of the sound component of DirectX. Without that, you're stuck with some flat, stereo sound.
Add to that the fact that DirectInput (input from keyboards/mice/joysticks) has been borked so that it's "more compatible with the XBox360 controller" (See: Let's try to unify our gaming cash cow) and DirectX 10 isn't so sweet anymore.
The alternative is to use OpenGL for graphics, OpenAL for sound, and SDL/GLUT for everything else. All of these are cross platform, and most of them work BETTER than DirectX (excepting OpenGL, although it's not really that far behind graphics-wise) and you kinda wonder why game developers still stick with DirectX . . .

As I said....

Death to Vista.

(Also, DRM!)

This is an instance of where the half-assed "video of my monitor" method of recording really sucks.

*discard

Self-discarding this video (discard called by original submitter joedirt)