The Verdict?

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Anyone have a good experience installing and running VISTA? I'd love to hear
some feedback before continuing and committing. I have a feeling there are
those who have had a smooth experience, but in these newsgroups, one only
usually hears about the problems.
Thanks.
 
Rex said:
Anyone have a good experience installing and running VISTA? I'd love to
hear
some feedback before continuing and committing. I have a feeling there
are
those who have had a smooth experience, but in these newsgroups, one only
usually hears about the problems.
Thanks.
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ok here, except no sound from Audigy 2 (64bits), no TBT-TV, and no
Supraexpress modem drivers.

EVERYTHING ELSE is working, i supplied no extra drivers to Vista :-)
 
Took about 40 minutes to do a clean install on a dedicated "primary" DOS
partition. The only problem I have is that I can't get my scanner to
function.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
I created a new Partion and started to install.
The install itself took one hour, and 20 minutes or more until it was ready
to work.
I needed to update via the Windows Update the Soundcard drivers to work and
I had some issues with the defauly Nvidia drivers, some flickering .. really
wired one... and i downloaded and install the latest officials for vista and
now all good.

I am really amazed of vista... it is really good and cool, amazing... i read
a lot of reviews about it, but being in it.. is completely different.. and i
am using it only for some hours and still dont know all the features.

I got some issues trying to open Some files from My Document's @ XP's Drive
from Vista, some to do with UAC and I am waiting to get help on it..

But I really recommend installing it.

Luis.
 
I can't boot from any disc I've burned (I've posted separately about it), but
running it as an upgrade from a W2K drive went flawlessly. It does take a
long time (mine took about an hour to copy files, then another half hour to
expand - about 1:45 total), but I haven't found a problem yet. Admittedly,
I've been playing more than testing, but it's worth the upgrade to me just
for the visuals.

I am kind of surprised they didn't use a new startup sound, though. The old
XP ditty that I've heard 10,000 times is tired. Maybe a new one for the
actual release? (I know, petty)
 
Some problems with the installation, had to do clean eventualy. Amazed at how
fast and slick it is. Yes there are some issues with drivers but everyone
will catch up soon. Enjoy.
 
I'm enjoying it so far.

I did a clean install.

The negative:
It took me a while to figure out how to move my new "User's" data to my D
partition (where I always store data) and the default UAC warnings were VERY
annoying until I finally figured out how to stop them (although the changes
to the local policy didn't seem to stick after reboots or perhaps that is
because I'd freeze and have to hard boot, I'm not sure yet).

I also have an unidentified device that I can't find drivers for since Vista
can't even tell me what the device is. This REALLY surprises me because
isn't Vista supposed to be more advanced than XP which COULD identify it?
heh.

I'm getting hangs and freezes. I suspect because of all the new graphics
goings on. I have a decent card (nVidia Geforce 4 ti 4200) but obviously
it's not a newer one.

The positive:
I like the look of it (despite it being VERY Mac like (I'm still convinced
that one day we'll only have one main operating system, heh)).

It seems more intuitive for the most part.

Umm, that's about it until I stop the hanging and freezing so can explore
more. heh.
 
I too have a few issues with the "macness" of the new OS... BUT I have a
feelin that MS has some stuff up there sleeve (at least i hope they wouldnt
just cop off an OS thats about to be replaced with new and improved list of
feature on Mac {Leopard}) Im thinking that MS' renewed interest in Community
involvement and there seemingly much more open feedback processes along with
COM of the .net Framework are gonna really appeal to a new crowd (open source
and Mac Users alike) as well as raise the brows of some of us Windows
veterans. (Double Cheers on That)

Like many have said though im happy with a well supported community involved
OS , I dont necessarily need flashy window minimization and "Gadgets". But
they sure do impress people :)

Drew G,MCP
 
I have had a good experience sofare
ofcourse there are drives issues etc
they wil not work to the ful potential
But my vidcard had a 1 rating and i got it up to 2.6
now i stil miss my asus enhanced drivers
that is the only isseus sofare that gave bleu screens.
some of my game works fine but only the card is to dark i hope there wil be
a
solution soon
gamespy is not working games wil show up but no way to play yet
but i have played online form the game setup it self

internet looks good sofare
 
I've had good and bad (mum always said i was different!)

Installed on to a desktop machine at second time of trying, first time
around got an error message, started again and deleted all logical disks and
installed on the one physical disk, no partions, without any hassle. Had to
then load in new video drivers and once the machine rebooted and re-started
i have to admit i was blown away, it's a very nice look and feel operating
system.

As for the bad experience.. well currently having problems trying to
install it on a laptop, it just won't install, but maybe down to the disks
im using, but won't know till i try a DVD+R.

Micrososft will charge £10.98 gbp for them to ship the original disk to you.

Cheers

Neil.
 
Update folks since long time install,

Been bothering those that need to upgrade drivers and get themselves ready.
NVidea have a Vista Beta Driver to try for all those intrested and you can
sign up for Symantics beta testing. Have not heard back from others except
"in development " so seems that all the money makers have been caught on hop
by MS decision to release beta to the pleps.

I am running 2GB ram and NVidea GT 7600 256MB and so far the probs are few
although WMP 11 beta does have some issues with certain types of video
streaming, though this is true when run on XP as well.

Darkone I have always had a problem with the XP start up/close down sounds
as it drives me crazy when I hear it. Fortunatly it is only on others
machines that I hear it as I have stopped both a long time ago and it was one
of the first things I did with Vista. Minor I know but these things can drive
you crazy.

I do dislike the MAC type interface and and trying to get used to it (still
trying to figure out how to do many things as still in XP mode). Have dropped
many of the bells and whistles features as to much iceing

Overall the verdict is good. Vista is quicker and feels lighter than XP.
Most important it has increased my download speed but waiting to see if this
is because provider has not learned how to close gateway on Vista. So I guess
I like it.
 
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