Windows Vista Public Beta

[FelixofMars]

I think I will install mine to my external USB drive and just make it primary boot in BIOS, sounds less hastle.

[VR46]

If doing it again I would do the same tb. Boot wise, after installation, when your PC starts up you get the option to either boot with XP or Vista

[FelixofMars]

OK, not had a great deal of luck, installed fine to USB drive. Boots up Vista then has a spaz at crcdisk.sys with BOSD if I leave it to normally boot up (of course - its windows.)

At least its only on a USB drive so for now I have reverted back to XP as primary boot, which was more arsing around finding I know have a new boot loader, found a prog called VistaBootPRO to change the boot order.

I have read lots of forums and it seems that the fault is being cause by the lack of decent SATA drivers, I would have thought they would have fixed those first!!

[marcus]

Installed to a 2nd hard drive fine, wont boot without the DVD but that suits me as XP is still my main. For now Ill just tinker around with it I think, although it does seem to run nicely on my PC and the temptation to switch is building, but the fact Ill want to reinstall it again when newer releases are available puts me off a bit, unless those changes are available by way of a windows update of course.

[FelixofMars]

Right, I have it running on an old PC now. Haven't found anything too spiffing yet. But then I think most of the flashy stuff is disabled as this is not cutting edge

Update:

Right to be honest this screams of Windows ME at the moment, most of the features cut and nothing good really added. They have added Media Center but its not yet full compatible with the Xbox 360, its too much of a nanny OS asking too many questions about if im SURE I want to run a program that may change my system settings. Excuse me but F**K right off with that S**T! What sort of Expert or even Pro is going to put up with being spoon fed this rot!

As I understand you can only disable it all together (then its not reccomended and a chour to access.) Why isn't there an option for each program that come up saying do you want to be warned the next time this program is loaded and a tick box.

[Roost]

Still getting sound stuttering even after a complete format and reinstall with just the onboard sound in the machine, took the audigy 2zs out. Noticed Vista was using about 800mb of ram so tried increasing it to 2GB as i was going to anyway and that hasn't helped at all.

I've got a 3800+ 64 AMD, 2GB RAM, Asus A8V motherboard.

Any Ideas??

[kernow]

its a beta, they are asking you the over paranoid confirmation questions because, as they stated, .. its a B E T A

they stated themselves the irritating multiple confirmation dialogs wont be as plentiful in the release build.

its just better to wait until its finished, theres absolutely no point thinking about 'switching' to this build.

Right, I have it running on an old PC now. Haven't found anything too spiffing yet. But then I think most of the flashy stuff is disabled as this is not cutting edge

Update:

Right to be honest this screams of Windows ME at the moment, most of the features cut and nothing good really added. They have added Media Center but its not yet full compatible with the Xbox 360, its too much of a nanny OS asking too many questions about if im SURE I want to run a program that may change my system settings. Excuse me but F**K right off with that S**T! What sort of Expert or even Pro is going to put up with being spoon fed this rot!

As I understand you can only disable it all together (then its not reccomended and a chour to access.) Why isn't there an option for each program that come up saying do you want to be warned the next time this program is loaded and a tick box.

[VR46]

Only problems I've experienced is alot of my shortcuts don't work (due to using partition magic and renaming half my drive), IE only seems to work intermitently (sp) and my Spyware/Virus detectors take blooming ages now

Apart from that the multiple pop-up confirmations are annoying, but otherwise it looks million times nicer than XP

[Roost]

You can turn those popups off though.

Just go in control panel, user accounts and family safety, user accounts and then change security settings and untick the UAC setting. I don't get anymore popups than with XP.

[Psyduck]

Just been downloading this to use with my 360, but I see it doesn't work with it - any ideas if/when it will?

[FelixofMars]

I guess it will eventually, not yet though.

[VR46]

Anyone know the best way to uninstall Vista ? (want to use the hard drive it's on a partition on in another computer - but without Vista on there)

Thanks.

[kernow]

just delete and recreate the partition, depends what boot loader you use I guess.

xp boot loader or vista?

[VR46]

So just delete the Windows (Vista) folder, I use the boot loader that appeared after I installed Vista - didn't know if there were any registry implications etc, thanks

[huxley]

Just been downloading this to use with my 360, but I see it doesn't work with it - any ideas if/when it will?

Yea I tried that - it only works with ntsc 360 consoles it seems.