Windows Vista Beta 1

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Ok Install complete....working great so far. No issues. I won't be able to try to get onto the internet yet, because I am at work. Shut down was extremely fast. Getting to the welcome screen took a little while, but not worse than XP. Login was fast.

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Ok Install complete....working great so far. No issues. I won't be able to try to get onto the internet yet, because I am at work. Shut down was extremely fast. Getting to the welcome screen took a little while, but not worse than XP. Login was fast.

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I'm going to install it on my 700m, also.

How does it look?

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I'm going to install it on my 700m, also.

How does it look?

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It looks great, and so far is working great. I had a bone stock 700m, and there are two items it doesn't find drivers for:

Mass Storage Controller

PCI Modem

It finds the display adapter....Integrated Intel Graphics.

It loads a default Monitor driver, Generic PnP Monitor.

It finds the NIC and internal Network card.

Sound works.

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Ok so what folders are safe to delete?

I see it put something in there called boot, build, installed repsoitory, users, windows.old, and wmpub.

I assume users stays. I like that....better than documents and settings...etc etc etc...

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Do I have to format the drive to install Vista? Im getting an error when I choose the disk and click continue

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*shutters* I'd rather not talk about install issues with Vista. Which included me installing and re-installing the hard drive with different jumper settings 4 times and spending an hour on diskpart. Only to realize all I needed to do was start to install XP.

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When I installed it, I had one drive, one partition. I was logged into winxp, I installed while I was in XP. It said there was a version of windows on this drive, and that it would put it into windows.old. I was like fine. I wanted to install it here like this anyway. I had no problems installing it over the current windows xp. Still running strong.

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Has anybody found a way to create custom Virtual Folders?  Are the ones in there just a proof of concept?

I can't find a way to modify the existing ones or create my own.

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One way I found is to go to search, search for something. It gives you the results. Then there is an organize button with a drop down. Click that and say save search. That allows you to create a custom view/virtual folder.

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I've got it installed now but I've got a really bizzare problem is that it is very very laggy unless I give it something to do... eg a spyware scan or extracting some huge file.. I find this very odd as I don't remember this issue in the Alpha's.. I've installed the ATi driver and everything *appears* to be ok from that.. Tried installing the via drivers which it just ignored due to a version mismatch.

I've activated my newsgroup account but now I've got to wait 2 hours for it to go through before I can ask on there :(

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