so i'm now running...

...windows vista RC1

so far i'd have to say a failure as i'm having a great amount of trouble downloaing drivers for all my stuff

but i guess if everything was working then it's a decent upgrade from xp

dunno how long i'll keep vista for, i have a feeling not long

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You like black and white
Run run away

[chorus]
See chameleon
Lying there in the sun
All things to everyone
Run run away

If you're in the swing (money ain't everything)
If you're in the swing
Run run away

If you gotta crush (don't beat about the bush)
When I gotta crush
Run run away

Oh now can't you wait (love don't come on a plate)
Oh now can't you wait
Run run away

See there chameleon
Lying there in the sun
All things to everyone
Run run away

Run run away
Run run away
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iCeMaN pAuL Wrote:
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> ...windows vista RC1
>
> so far i'd have to say a failure as i'm having a
> great amount of trouble downloaing drivers for all
> my stuff
>
> but i guess if everything was working then it's a
> decent upgrade from xp
>
> dunno how long i'll keep vista for, i have a
> feeling not long

You do know version RC2 has been out for about 3 weeks now?

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Is it available to all beta testers? They haven't sent me any mails about it, even though they did with RC1.

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senninho Wrote:
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> Is it available to all beta testers? They haven't
> sent me any mails about it, even though they did
> with RC1.

Nope, it was pulled really quickly as apparently they expect it to be so close to the RTM version that it's essentially a free OS for nearly a year.

IMHO none of them are ready yet, but the problems are solely down to developers, namely driver developers.

If you want a rough guide as to whether it's ready enough for you, this page should help: [www.iexbeta.com]

I downloaded RC2 and installed it yesterday. RC1 key worked fine. It has crashed a few times. Twice because of my videocard (had no drivers) and the other times i was just trying to do too many things at once and it didnt like it.

Speech Recognition is fun to play with. Although it gets real frustrating. I really like Vista i dont think i will go back to XP.

I am also running Vista RC1 on my other less powerful pc. Seems ok at the moment apart from not many drivers are out but Vista itself seems very stable though, so maybe Microsoft will finally have got a windows right, so long as they get rid of the crappy and also very annoying Windows Genuine Advantage

VISTA RC1 DOESN'T EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111



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hmm looks like they have taken down RC1 from the website. It was on there a week ago. I used torrents to get RC2.

mika19b Wrote:
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> I am also running Vista RC1 on my other less
> powerful pc. Seems ok at the moment apart from not
> many drivers are out but Vista itself seems very
> stable though, so maybe Microsoft will finally
> have got a windows right, so long as they get rid
> of the crappy and also very annoying Windows
> Genuine Advantage

Yeah, because they should be giving us all free software.

there is away around the windows part of the Windows Genuine Advantage software.. i mean i heard there is

Yeah, you don't install it when it's offered in Windows Update...

gav Wrote:
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> Yeah, you don't install it when it's offered in
> Windows Update...


i did install it once, when it first came out tho. pain in the ass.

after a long battle to get RC1 to work with my graphics card sound card etc etc ive gone back to the xp i know and love LOL

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mneh, osx is better.


Got high hopes fro vista, that is until leopard comes out :p

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My love’s subliminal

well after a while back with xp I miss vista!!! LOL so i'm considering going back to it.

the main compatibility issue was with my soundcard. Sound Blaster Audigy SE. i can't get it to run 5.1 speakers, only the front left front right and centre speaker work. (and the woofer)

my ati graphics card has a vista update but the catalyst control centre thing doesn't work

apart from those 2 things i can't see a reason not to go back to it

the sound thing really needs to be sorted out though

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Catalyst Control Center works fine with Vista. It's the lack of OpenGL support that's annoying ATI owners currently.

Creative suck frankly. I doubt we'll ever see decent drivers for the Audigy range. Knowing Creative, I'm not even 100% convinced we'll see full drivers for XFI to be honest...

The world isn't ready for Vista in my opinion, though it's still the problem of 3rd parties. The product MS has put out is pretty much spot-on in my experience. It's on the verge of RTM, but I can't see myself being as happy with Vista as I am currently with XP until perhaps next summer. There's still too many little issues, some of which I'll mention here:

- Nero 7 doesn't work (7.5.70 might, haven't checked). Nero 7 Lite does, but that's not what most want.
- No decent anti-virus. Companies such as NOD32 have BETA products out, but that's it.
- Defrag software is limited at best - quite an issue in the corporate sector.
- Java support is still flaky (Sun's is still in BETA)
- Many game installers can't understand the file structure in Vista, and struggle without full admin rights
- Driver support is still extremely poor

You can use Vista as your only OS, and there's normally ways to get everything going, but it's quite a pain at the moment. Basically, as far as I'm concerned, the pro's don't have enough support to get the most out of them, and the cons are just too big.