Windows Vista Beta 1

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johny128

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Ya exactly what i mean, my system is a bit better than yours, yet vista is soo slloow, it seems to be a video driver issue.

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try to reinstall vga drivers and download some for vista, both ati and nvidia have beta drivers for vista...hope it will help, its weird problem :wacko:

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mlerner

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Seems like everyone have this issue with their sound cards... I have an Audigy 2 Value with same problem. Weird that theres no driver included in Vista...

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Audio support is limited in Beta 1, the audio will be properly supported for most cards in Beta 2 (this is according to Microsoft via the beta newsgroups)

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Hurmoth

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when beta 2 is supposed to be out???

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PDC ;)

ActiveWin.com has these dates listed on their site... and of course, these dates could change (excluding the beta 1 date :p ):

? Beta 1: 7/27/05

? Beta 2: 11/16/05

? RC0: 3/17/06

? RTM: 6/28/06

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Peter McGrath

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Can anyone please tell me what Anti-Virus & Firewall programs work with Vista Beta 1? I've tried to install Norton Internet Security 2005 (Compatibility Mode) and it dosen't lik it.

I's there a system restore like XP???

Thanks in advance.

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SAV 10 works fine, and system restore is still there (although it was one of the first things I tuned off...

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Ive been playing with Vista for the last day with saxondale. (did another all nighter last night), i must say it looks ace with the glass effects, really impressed by the concept.

There are a few of noticeable bugs, nothing that would make me stop using it as a primary os, my wireless lan works (Belkin 802.11b USB Adapter).

Ive yet to test it with a few games and benchmarks

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ClintEastman

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Hey, is anyone else having a problem with svchost.exe running at 95-99%?

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start it up and then go for the services, have a look at "Windows Audio" and see if it is "Starting...".

If so it's your audio driver, Now if your running on the nforce 2 chipset install these drivers:-

ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/nForce/standalone/6.39/

That's what worked for me. :D

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Hurmoth

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start it up and then go for the services, have a look at "Windows Audio" and see if it is "Starting...".

If so it's your audio driver, Now if your running on the nforce 2 chipset install these drivers:-

ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/nForce/standalone/6.39/

That's what worked for me.  :D

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Nope, Windows Audio stated that it was "Started" :(

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