Use the Power of the Internet -- Trekking to your local computer store isn't necessary. There are dozens of online computer support companies to choose from. Services and connect to your computer remotely and can diagnose most common problems.

Crowdsource -- Want some free tech support? Try the Web. The humorously-named message board BleepingComputer has an entire , and there's also a website dedicated to Vista, called .

Vista's loss of support shouldn't come as a surprise--after all, Microsoft has been for over three years. Last April, Microsoft , claiming that it needed to "take advantage of the ongoing improvements in modern operating systems and modern hardware."

If you're not too stuck in your Vista ways, you can also upgrade to Windows 7. Most of the computers that initially shipped with Vista installed are capable of running Windows 7. The minimum system requirements for Windows 7 are a 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of hard drive space--below what most factory-built computers shipped with when .

There are plenty of places to go for Vista support, but the best solution is upgrading. Don't wait too long, though--.