Windows Vista Build 5231 Has Leaked!

[LispyGlitter2]

CTP pre-beta 2

[xUnix]

nah.. not worth the download... I will wait beta 2 ,....

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Then what was 5219?

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They're both pre-beta 2.

[jdlarson83]

Tabs were in the PDC build. What are you talking about?

The audio controls are new. Agreed.

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QuickTabs was the feature i was refering to, got my lingo mixed up

[doug_jnr]

stability is fine....for what the product is. nothing less than 5219 or any of the others.

[coth]

well here is my view on new build. (may be something of this was posted before, but 9 pages for non-english speaker is pretty much)

at begin i don't know how much of time it got for installation. i just run setup.exe, selected drive letter for installation and gone watching tv. after i came back pc was in stand by. i moved my mouse and logon screen appeared. after i clicked on administrator i got into desktop.

first i noticed is that dwn was working on my 6800. i opened info about video driver and found that vista installed me forceware lddm 75.04. i should say new forceware is much faster than 75.03. just 3-4 windows i could open without lags. now 8-10.

unfortunately vista still don't know asus p4p800 m/b. so i installed lan driver from support disc. and successfully. i didn't tryed to install sound drivers, nevertheless.

new network center looks pretty nice, but i didn't found any new special functionalities.

wmp11 is pretty nice. on really looks better than on screenshots. i like it.

explorer works alot faster now. it's opening folders with loading of icons almost immediately, intead of all older builds.

Flip 3D is on Win-Tab now, what is more situable.

IE looks few better than in 5219. there is icon with blank list appears when moving mouse over new tab. Rendering engine of IE beta 1 was very close to IE 6. Not now. Some sites is bugging now. I say only about acid2 test.... it looks much worse...

However I found new interesting feature (at least i didn't noticed it in 5219). Every tab in IE7 now have own keyboard layout. You can typing in English in one tab and in Russian in another without changing it. Addressbar have own layout as well. It seems to goes for entire system. Layout is now setting for container, not for enire process.

[Kr0z]

Thanks for the quick review! (Y)

Damn, why is it not on connect.microsoft.com yet. :ermm:

[Hurmoth]

nah.. not worth the download... I will wait beta 2 ,....

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:sleep: I'm so tired of reading worthless posts like this... no one cares that you're waiting until beta 2 :wacko:

Damn, why is it not on connect.microsoft.com yet. :ermm:

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Talking about build 5231 :blink: Probably because they aren't ready to release it yet :unsure:

[cpu121]

Thanks for the quick review! (Y)

Damn, why is it not on connect.microsoft.com yet. :ermm:

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Possibly because Microsoft never intended for this build to be released outside Redmond.

[kronik]

I noticed its smaller than the previous

is it true that Microsoft announced somewhere that the final Vista will be samller than WindowsXP?

[reowdes]

This build for me have a lot of bugs, but is working faster then 5219 and is also compattible with my old hadware, nforce2 chipset is work perfectly, ad/ware program too, WMP 11 is really nice to see, and also the new interface for network connection is valid (and is still beta!), i hope the next build is gone to be lighter, the only problem is this consume too many pc resourse, 720mb with just explorer and WMP11!!, too much, i think microsoft developer for vista are confuse, they think we want more expectacular destktop envoirement, ok probably in the rich countries yes, because people are money to buy new hadware, but most of pc users arround the world want , ligther OS, faster and saffety, with this OS microsoft, make more diferent betwen rich and poor...thats my point

Carlos from Roma

[SkyyPunk Veteran]

:o Look what i found (note: i didnt look through the whole thread to check if this has been found already)

[SkyyPunk Veteran]

and also, nice looking information of whats goin on

[jimbo11883]

Who cares how much memory it is using... it's in beta. Although it is using too much.

[JnCoKiLLa]

wish i didn't have to d/l it....Wish they would just give tester it instead

[SkyyPunk Veteran]

Who cares how much memory it is using... it's in beta. Although it is using too much.

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no no, i wasnt commenting about how much memory it was using, i was saying they updated that screen, it looks nice and gives more details under those categories

[CoLdFuSi0n]

it was wierd i was going to install this build on to my computer and put it onto my second drive, but when i put the cd in and booted off the dvd did all the mombo jumbo, got to the part where it said what drive do you want to install this one and noticed my ide hd was repartitioned as one, so basically i lost all my **** cause well i dunno.

:angry:

but what are betas for anyways :)

[BajiRav]

am I the only one who thinks that rendering of fonts has improved ? I am going by screenshots. from WinHEC'05 to PDC'05 to this build, thereis noticeable improvement in it. :yes:

[JnCoKiLLa]

with everbuild something improves everywhere

[FATILA]

Not exactly, serious regressions can also become apparent.

[ev0|]

am I the only one who thinks that rendering of fonts has improved ? I am going by screenshots. from WinHEC'05 to PDC'05 to this build, thereis noticeable improvement in it. :yes:

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Yeah, things definately look nicer in Vista.

I think it's doing pretty good so far. They definately have a much better problem reporting system than they used to have, and that should help them fix bugs quickly.

[neufuse Veteran]

Thanks for the quick review! (Y)

Damn, why is it not on connect.microsoft.com yet. :ermm:

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because Microsoft already said they beta testers are getting a newer build then 5231... and it ill be towards the end of oct

but technically it is on connect right now... for TPA program people... that's the highest beta level... but you are probably tech beta which is in the middle...

it goes like

TPA, OEM, Techbeta, MSDN, technet

in that order for releases

[neufuse Veteran]

I noticed its smaller than the previous

is it true that Microsoft announced somewhere that the final Vista will be samller than WindowsXP?

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no way in heck will it be smaller, especially the installer

they are going to have 32bit and 64bit installer on the same DVD so the size when its done will take up pratically the whole DVD. Installed Vista will have a lot more included with it which will take up a lot lot more space, including a much larger driver database. It will definatly take up a lot more space then XP does

[Kilgore Trout]

I would stay away from this leak, trust me, I blue screened everytime I shut down, ending up in a endless loop with the "windows errors" screen. couldn't get back to XP, even after editing boot.ini. The shutdown error always brought me back to vista

[JnCoKiLLa]

I am Gonna try it anyway...wanna see the newer stuff...

Edited October 14, 2005 by JnCoKiLLa