J
JP
Vista Beta 2 proved to be a very interesting experience. I was able to send
several suggestions and incidence reports to Microsoft using the Vista
Reporting Tool.
However, I find that boot times seem to be getting longer for every boot, by
the boot, and exploring the system now seems to make it hang. I can open
Explorer or Computer and they do spring up almost instantly - however,
navigating to any folder now seems to take longer and longer every time.
I cannot explain this, but the size of the system itself seems to be growing
every day though I have not added any new software or stored additional
documents on the system drive.
Without the page file (being located on a physically separate drive), the
system size is now over 16 GB. About a half of this seems to be in the
WinSxS directory. I cannot browse the myriad sub-directories here as the
system hangs when I open this directory.
The only software on this system include Firefox, Acronis TrueImage 8,
WinDVD 7, MS Office 2003, and general utilities as Ad-Aware, WinRAR, Adobe
Reader, and so on.
Regretfully, the novelty seems to have worn off somewhat with this
sluggishness and unexplained obesity.
I will restore this test machine to the Windows XP Pro originally on it
(stored in an offline Acronis image file) and return to Vista when the RC 1
comes out. I understand this may be sometime next month.
Thanks and regards to the help I have received from these newsgroups during
my Vista experience in dealing with little things I needed advice on.
You all are a group of wonderful people here!
Cheers.
JP
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several suggestions and incidence reports to Microsoft using the Vista
Reporting Tool.
However, I find that boot times seem to be getting longer for every boot, by
the boot, and exploring the system now seems to make it hang. I can open
Explorer or Computer and they do spring up almost instantly - however,
navigating to any folder now seems to take longer and longer every time.
I cannot explain this, but the size of the system itself seems to be growing
every day though I have not added any new software or stored additional
documents on the system drive.
Without the page file (being located on a physically separate drive), the
system size is now over 16 GB. About a half of this seems to be in the
WinSxS directory. I cannot browse the myriad sub-directories here as the
system hangs when I open this directory.
The only software on this system include Firefox, Acronis TrueImage 8,
WinDVD 7, MS Office 2003, and general utilities as Ad-Aware, WinRAR, Adobe
Reader, and so on.
Regretfully, the novelty seems to have worn off somewhat with this
sluggishness and unexplained obesity.
I will restore this test machine to the Windows XP Pro originally on it
(stored in an offline Acronis image file) and return to Vista when the RC 1
comes out. I understand this may be sometime next month.
Thanks and regards to the help I have received from these newsgroups during
my Vista experience in dealing with little things I needed advice on.
You all are a group of wonderful people here!
Cheers.
JP
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