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Windows Vista Beta - Who's Running it ?
The Beta has been out for a while and recently Microsoft have released it for download , or buy it on DVD. For those thinking of giving this beta a trial then think again as it aint as stable as you think. For those who are interested please read below.
-Remember this is a Beta , don't go removing your Working XP/2000 installation , install on a new partition or create one !
You also need a product key from MS which expires in a couple of month's ! .
I downloaded the 32Bit .ISO file which was about 3-4Gb in Size, I downloaded it using DAP ( Download Accelator Plus ) My download got cut off around 2Gb and had to resume it, after burning it onto DVD , I created another parition which has to be NTFS not FAT32 otherwise it wont install. I decided to boot the DVD from DOS , after a couple of minutes i got the Blue Screen fatal exception error, typical Microsoft, after rebooting again I was promted with the options , e.g Country, Language, Select Drive to install on etc all going well , after 15 minutes the installation Failed, due to a code error (No Message just Code 123456 etc Error). This is just great.
After booting my original XP installation i got onto google and did a search for the Error code, it turns out that the .ISO file was corrupt, and the MD5 Hash did not match the original one. Yes it was the Download Application DAP which must of corrupted it on the resume. After trying again using the Microsoft Download Manager , Akaimi or something it worked fine.
I decided to install from Windows rather that booting up in DOS and it worked fine just run the setup.exe from your DVD drive, the installation took around 20-30 Minutes on a 2.2Ghz AMD Chip with 1Gb RAM, the installation isn't very specific on what files it is copying so becarefull.
Time for the first boot in Windows Vista Beta ! , It took some time to boot there is no display screen just the same progress bar you see in XP & 2000 , The first screen is the Create User Account screen (Admin), Once you have logged in you are bombarded with lots of new Microsoft suprises such as Microsoft Defender, which is so annoying you cant even delete a file without Admin Right's and it still prompts you every time you want to delete a file. The Interface , Taskbar , Menu and the Widget Side bar are very cool, with the Glass Effect even though it does slow down performance a little.
Ok once you have logged in, you need to do the following otherwise your going to be really pissed off in 10 minutes , goto Control Pannel , notice all the posh icon's , I switched to classic view otherwise you wont know what anything is, goto User Accounts, and Disable UAC ( User Account Control ) This thing limits everything you do and is very annoying. Also Disable the Firewall, and the Windows Defender as these really do eat up Memory Resources and drive you crazy,
One thing you will notice with Vista is that you will have to re-install all your Drivers for your Sound Card's / Video Driver's windows did detect these at start up but finding those CD's with the drivers on does take a while. After a couple of minutes I had Sound & Video drivers working, I had to buy a new USB ADSL Modem , when installing many setup.exe from old CD's you do get lots of messages saying wrong OS version, to get around this just explore the cd and run the setup.exe manually, basically skip Auto Run.
Things that I Like about Windows Vista Beta
- Unix Filesystem Navigation , on the address bar in explorer you can click on Directorys rather than clicking Back a few times.
- Glass Desktop Effect, very smooth taskbar with ability to custom your glass color also the effect.
- Heavy Security Tool's , Even though very annoying MS have added restrictions on everything, even running single applications !
- Lots of more Control Pannel program's, more user friendly.
- Fade In / Fade Out Effects on Login.
- Better Views regarding explorer displaying icons , thumbnails etc.
Negative's
- Not much Support for installing new Device's , and identifying them using the Internet.
- Same Login Screen but with a different Display
- Not enough information on the new security added , e.g UAC, Defender , Malwar Applications.
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| LiquidNitrogen |
| Unless Monad shell + the new file system comes, this would still remain the ever so hyped up yet another stupid operating system from M$ |
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| placebo |
| You don't need to put an apostrophe on words to make them plural. But thanks for the review...I'm good right now with XP, I'll wait for a more stable release of Vista ;) |
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| Simon |
5456 is out.
| quote: | Mcft has just released an updated version of Windows Vista to technical beta testers. Build 5456 is available in either x86 or x64 flavors right now on Mcft Connect.
"Some of the new features include a revamped Aero/DWM subsystem, and a completely overhauled and siginficantly less obtrusive UAP for all those that couldn’t stand the previous one. From what we have been told by Mcft, the Time Zone bug that plagued previous builds of Windows Vista has been patched, and quite a few fixes in the Regional Settings and IME have been patched." |
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcas..._gallery_01.asp
| quote: | vista_5456.5.060620-1700_winmain_idx03_x86fre_client-LB2CFRE_EN_DVD.iso
vista_5456.5.060620-1700_winmain_x64fre_client-LB2CxFRE_EN_DVD.iso |
Beta 2 CPP keys work. |
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| prothoid |
from your post, it sounds like i can install while running windows xp, right? i dont have the means to burn dvd and dont want to order a dvdkit from MS. i've got my main drive, one partition, ntfs, all winxp. i have a spare drive which i'd be willing to fully format as ntfs for the vista beta.
does anyone know if it would be possible for me to download the ISO of the beta, mount it in winxp, then install it to complete seperate harddrive and partition without the installer mucking around in my winxp harddrive? |
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| babyvsrhino |
| I was running Beta 2 for a while, I enjoyed the system, but there were a lot of problems with programs I would run. I installed RC1 a few days ago, rather, I tried to a few times, it hasn't finished the install yet :( |
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| prothoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by babyvsrhino
I was running Beta 2 for a while, I enjoyed the system, but there were a lot of problems with programs I would run. I installed RC1 a few days ago, rather, I tried to a few times, it hasn't finished the install yet :( |
just got everything working for me, runs very nicely though there are bugs and some things i dont like.
anyone know what date the RC1 will cease to function? MS website says 6/17/2007, though i thought i heard it was 3/17/2007. |
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| babyvsrhino |
| quote: | Originally posted by prothoid
just got everything working for me, runs very nicely though there are bugs and some things i dont like.
anyone know what date the RC1 will cease to function? MS website says 6/17/2007, though i thought i heard it was 3/17/2007. |
Its june, I think beta 2 was june also |
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| Dj Alex (ISR) |
| quote: | Originally posted by babyvsrhino
Its june, I think beta 2 was june also |
pete tong FTW =]
when the official version will be out? |
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| KrazyDJs |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Alex (ISR)
pete tong FTW =]
when the official version will be out? |
Around end of January, 07. People say 30.1.07.
Will use it when it's stable and publicly used, IF I will be able to slim it down a lil bit. don't like all those fancy graphics, useless for me. the win2k classic theme is great. |
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| Dj Alex (ISR) |
| quote: | Originally posted by KrazyDJs
Around end of January, 07. People say 30.1.07.
Will use it when it's stable and publicly used, IF I will be able to slim it down a lil bit. don't like all those fancy graphics, useless for me. the win2k classic theme is great. |
Are you everywhere? =]
I have new pc.. 64 bit athlon so i want to get the max of it..
now im on 32 bit XP |
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