tell you something hilarious..
the tech fellas took away the "new" laptop to uninstall the
"security program" because someone finally realised it renders the
thing useless...
as in, anything you try to put in the HDD will be met by a whole
lot of warnings and shit... that includes shit like powerpoint
slides and MS word documents
and the stupid program slows down the fricken laptop so much
that it actually goes to sleep and you got to start it up all over
again if you leave it too long (yes, it even locks up everything
and forces you to start up some things when it goes into the idle
mode)
so.. when you power on the thing, and walk away because it takes
forever to boot up, the thing will force the laptop to lock up
before XP totally boots up.. which means you have to sit there and
move the bloody mouse or hit a few buttons to prevent it from
falling asleep..
in other words, the "security" program renders the laptop
useless...
the tech fellas are now removing the program 
I just shudder at the thought of the migration to vista. For my
own laptop, I'm upgrading to Windows 7 if reviews are good.