Vista Trial

[BlackAdder]

I put it in this morning, took about 30 minutes. I have a Xp3200, asus A7n8x-E, 1.5 gig ram, ATI X1600 Pro. Everything looks very pretty, different in a good way I think, some of my parts won't work such as my Sil3112 raid controller and HP psc2110 printer. D20l wouldn't run cause of the Java which was downloaded with it, Boinc ran from another drive OK, some web sites won't cooperate such as CVS when refilling a prescription.It rates my video card higher than my CPU in the Vista compatability ratings.It seemed a bit sluggish but not enough for me to not want to use it. I still have to boot into XP PRO to take care of business...I will work with it more and see what else bugs me about it. :D

[drezha]

After continued use, I reckon it's better than XP.

I WILL be upgrading (thats if they somehow stop people using Beta when the retail comes out :P )

BUT I will be relegating it to a media center PC and getting Linux PC as I mentioned.

UAC is easy to turn off and I have done. The admin thing was easy to sort out as well...I just tried to delete a file and it asked me for the admin thing but in the bottom left it asked to remember this so I clicked it and lo and behold, no admin pop ups

I have rid myself of the toolbar...didn't like it.

General running doesn't seem to bother it what so ever. Wouldn't call it bloated. Only once or twice has it slowed. And I took that to my placing Folding@home at a higher priortiy in the task manager (something XP said it could do but never did...so increased DC production marginally as you c an stop it being slowed as much by other processes..)

One major program I found that didn't work was MSN messenager :roll: or the Microsoft Intelli point software stuff cloes due to DEP and wont let me change keys even after adding it to the DEP exceptions :roll:

I don't see how it's a one size fits all really. Admittly not as changeable as linux...but then I've never really sat and played with linux majorly, just enough to know I like it.

No it doesn't ask for admin passord taters, it asks you to click next or simliar (as I said, I turned it off so dont have to :P) Minimalistic interface is achieves the same. I have a 64Mb RAM GFX card. (though I was led to believe it was 256Mb...f**king PC World...no wonder it cant run BF2 at higher res! :evil: )

Nflight, admittly this is a beta..they might tone some stuff down...

Java and quicktime aren't working right I believe. A known bug.