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« on: June 21, 2006, 05:53:58 PM »
I have ordered the beta of Vista (don't have a dvd burner) and when I get it up and running as a dual boot system I will post my observations in this thread on what programmes work and those that don't.  Plus anything else of interest about it
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2006, 01:51:47 PM »
Vista received.  Will commence play on Saturday - drive image ready
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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2006, 02:29:57 PM »
Essexboy,

I also downloaded Vista.  I am going to have to either spend a day burning files (to clear out my hard drive a bit), so that I can install or buy a new hard drive.   

From what I have read, I am a bit reluctant to even want to put it on my current hard drive (even with it being partitioned), for fear that it will zonk my entire drive.    Reports are, that it is pretty buggy and it should not be put on a live machine.   
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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2006, 04:14:06 PM »
Best bet is to install a second hard drive because as you have pointed out not to be used as a live program.
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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2006, 04:55:28 PM »
I think I might be able to get around that because my C partition is a lot smaller than recommended just 9GB, so I will install it on my terciary partition  which is 40GB and, with my drive image if it all goes to rats I will just reinstall my C drive wiping all Vista data (well thats the theory anyway)
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« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2006, 08:14:24 AM »
OK first problem Vista doesn't recognize my USB modem and there are no Vista drivers.  Does not recognize my MB so unable to put USB drivers on.  After all this I found out that you can run programmes in an XPSP2 compatibility mode.  So I have restored yesterdays image (worked a treat) now I will reformat my G drive and start again this time running my MB and Modem discs in SP2 mode.  Plus this time I will do them in the right order.  Install of Vista took 45 minutes and the first few reboots were verrrrrrrry slow but after that they were about on par with XP.  The explorer function takes a bit of getting used to, and every time I instal a program it asks me if I really want to do it Duh!!!!!

Stay tuned for the next thrilling installment
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« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2006, 09:01:23 AM »
cant wait for the next installement
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« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2006, 10:33:37 AM »
Now online with Vista - All it needed was to install my MB drivers under XP2 and BTyahoo set up under SP2 and here I am.  NOw it is play time  glupek2 :blbl:
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« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2006, 06:30:13 PM »
Ok next problem ZA does notwork under Vista, so I downloaded and installed Comodo then lost all my modem drivers and Vista wanted to be reactivated again.  Oh well back to the drawing board.  Reinstal here I come next week
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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2006, 03:04:55 AM »
I hope you are enjoying yourself Essexboy. The 'fun' you are getting is one reason why I don't have any of the MS beta products installed. I only have the one main working PC though (plus laptop) and I need them working all the time. Maybe if I had a spare machine for playing with ........
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« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2006, 01:24:45 PM »
No problem for me as I have a spare partition and just before I instal I take a new drive image.  If it messes up then 10 minutes later I am back to as I was before.  I would rather learn the problems (and workarounds) with Vista now rather than try it as the only OS on a new system.   At the moment I am unable to find system restore, so I tried last known good which took me back to before I had fixed my internet snags, but it must be there somewhere, maybe I need a bigger shovel  cry2
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