Well, sorry to sound harsh, but Vista's brick-wall security is just over-the-top to me. If I were in a business where I had confidential important information that would cost me a lot of money should it get stolen, I'd care. For a home network to share music and pictures easily over my various computers, I care more about simplicity. Sure, someone
could hack into my WiFi and try and access my PC, but the odds of that happening in my neighborhood just seem pretty slim. More often than not, people trying to access WiFi are just looking for free Internet, and with a lot of unencrypted connections in my area, I bet they'd ignore mine.
And I'd actually be fine with it if it was just a default setting, but the fact that you can't share a folder in Users without sharing Users itself is just annoying. The main reason I don't like Vista is they redid everything you know about Windows...they eliminated the Menu bar on many apps, got rid of the "Up Folder" button, changed the settings dialog, turned single-windows with tabs into multiple window lists... That said, I do have to say I'm much more impressed with Vista on my new laptop, the looks are great, 64 bit support is awesome, and it handles a lot of things better than XP.
I guess what I'll have to do is create a folder outside of "Users" and put the stuff I want to share in that. I made a folder C:/My Documents and tried sharing it, works fine and Users isn't shared. I guess that'll have to do.