Windows Vista B1 Post your sucesfull Instalations


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Installed fine within the hour. It came enabled with LDDM and everything I wanted like aero glass and all. I didn't have to install no special drivers for it, and for that I am really happy.

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Yep fine here too. Install was smooth if a little long. Booting is a tad quicker than with XP and to my suprise the glass effects were enabled by default and running very smoothly on my fx5200.

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Yep fine here too. Install was smooth if a little long. Booting is a tad quicker than with XP and to my suprise the glass effects were enabled by default and running very smoothly on my fx5200.

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Its weird, but my XP boots up twice as fast than Vista. But when actually in Vista, it seems to run faster in general.

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Thats because its a fresh install...

oOOoo btw, how do you make the icons in the taskbar bigger (ones next to sys clock?

Mine are tiny as hell

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Thats because its a fresh install...

oOOoo btw, how do you make the icons in the taskbar bigger (ones next to sys clock?

Mine are tiny as hell

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Yeah I figured it was because its a fresh install. But I was playing around with a fresh install of XP not too long ago and I can sort of tell this runs smoother and it responds quicker. Not as much hard drive grinding just to open Documents.

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Mine was working absolutely brilliantly until I installed the nVidia nForce drivers which F'ed the graphics up for some reason. My ATI Radeon 9600 Pro handled the Glass and DWM effects very smoothly until this little mishap. Very fast boot as well.

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Aero has not been implemented yet (Beta 2?), so all of you excited that it works on your PC and older graphics card (with that nice, new visual style) should keep that in mind.

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Installed fine, I checked the clock as I started the install and when it finished it took 53 minutes.

installed it on a NTFS partition created with Partition Magic from Symantec within XP. Specs of the system I installed it on in my profile.

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Aero has not been implemented yet (Beta 2?), so all of you excited that it works on your PC and older graphics card (with that nice, new visual style) should keep that in mind.

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What is the difference going to be between Aero Glass, and the final Aero?

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Aero has not been implemented yet (Beta 2?), so all of you excited that it works on your PC and older graphics card (with that nice, new visual style) should keep that in mind.

Aero is implemented in a basic form (the style is named Aero nowadays), but it'll evolve from here. Even more signs Aero is already here in the form we see it is that it makes use of LDDM drivers to offload graphics work on the GPU. It's just maybe not as *pretty* with as many effects as it'll have, but that's another thing. Vista is still Vista although it's only in Beta 1. Same thing.

Personally, no probs with install on my experimental partition. No LDDM drivers at first, but quickly fixed with nvidia's alpha drivers.

Right now I just don't have sound. Grr... It didn't identify my Audigy LS, and the LS drivers I tried to download from Creative's site told me they didn't detect an LS card on my system when I ran the install. Weeird...

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I installed the 64 bit version and it went without a hitch (except that it is really slow installing). I don't get the glass effects. I really don't like that the installation does not give you any indication of how long it will take or countdown at all.

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What is the difference going to be between Aero Glass, and the final Aero?

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Same difference between Watercolor and Luna.

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Installation was smooth, took roughly 45 minutes.

Operation is smooth and stable, everything works well, it's a little faster than a fresh install of Windows Server 2003, and a lot faster than Windows XP.

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Install went pretty smooth for me, no major problems but a couple of bugs. Glass effect enabled with nvidia driver release. Still no sound for my realtek onboard soundcard though :-(

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45 minutes end to end, ran the core of the install from XP so as to remain dual bootable and not waste a DVD-R.

Def not a primary OS just yet, but well worth having to experiment and test. All I need now are some audigy2PeX drivers...

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30 minutes, succesfull installation, everything worked out of the box, no bugs found when starting Vista, and shutting down vista, small errors in apps, which are cosmetic graphical bugs. Currenty have my resolution at 1280x1024 32-bbp Aero glass, no lag at all.

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Well my installation did fine, and took about 45 minutes.

No problem with graphic drivers on the beggining (just downloaded Nvidia Alpha after) and the network drivers were already installed, so I had internet on the way.

Installation was smooth, took roughly 45 minutes.

Operation is smooth and stable, everything works well, it's a little faster than a fresh install of Windows Server 2003, and a lot faster than Windows XP.

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I've installed Server 2003 and it was the fastest Win OS I have ever put my hands on. Longhorn is really faster than it?

Because mine is a bit choopy on explorer, rather tough installing programs is like 50% faster than XP.

Specs:

P4 3.2 Ghz HT (512KB Cache)

Asus P4C800 E-Deluxe

1GB Ram

GeForce FX 5700

Samsung 160GB SATA

Any one with similar specs, wanna tell me your experiences? :rofl:

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