Vista RC1 Build 5505.6

By Aaron P
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Do not PM me asking where to get this build or where I got it from. Thank-you.

I've got my hands on Vista (pre)RC1 Build 5505.6. I'm unsure how different this is to 5492, but big improvements from 5472 - more polish and performance is improved.

Here's what changes since 5472 I've noticed thus far

- Updated boot screen (almost, it still only a progress bar, but it's in colour)

- Updated logon screen. The background graphic is looking better

- Minimise/Maximise animations and have changed slightly

- More updated icons especially in Control Panel

- Updates icon selection square

- Windows Mail updates

- updated progress bars (even Firefox progress bars look as expected)

- The display issues I've had with my laptop and an external monitor seem to have been fixed

Desktop

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New Network

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Control Panel, Classic View, Large Icons

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Sound applet

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Start Menu properties

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Windows Mail

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Computer Management

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Sync Centre

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Firefox, notice the updated area behind the menus and toolbars

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Help and Support, showing new progress animation seen in some places

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Menu items with icons attached

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Volume

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Security with new icons(?)

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Windows Update

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Add Gadgets dialog showing orange colour theme

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Add Contact

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Windows Media Player

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Windows Media Centre

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And finally, Aero Glass, with full minimise/maximise/flip3d etc. effects on a remote machine via Remote Desktop!

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nice screens; they do need to get rid of those add fonts dialog icons lol, I read somewhere on the newsgroups that they had updated something there in future builds but I'm not sure what exactly they said, hopefully those will be updated too.

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Eww they need to update the icons in the Add Font dialog screen! Those icons were from WAY back in Win 3.1!

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