My review about windows vista beta 2 built 5270

[Choto Cheeta]

well i just have got my beta invi from MS to try the beta 2 windows vista... it was a massive 2 GB download (though MS made part file 5 of them)...

the 1st change is the installetion... this new OS is no DVD... the dvd boots like a live CD... u have a graphical interface on installetion...

the next major thing is the simple installetion... only 4 click was for me to get in install... the installetion is totaly autometion... it did what it needed to do.. a restart & it brought me to the dual boot screen... i have installed it on a AMD 2600 XP with 512 MR DDR400 ATA 80GB... it took 1h n 30 mins to get it install...

it is running very slow on this config.. very very slow.. therefore i will install it on my 2nd system thats a P4 HT 3.2 with EM64t... hope that will going perform better...

here is some screen shot from my own system...

the explorer... My Computer...

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new pict layput....

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System info...

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The new WMP 11 for vista

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The new outlook express or rather windows mail...

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adding a new digicam...

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in side of my digi cam...

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this version of windows has lots of intergrated security features...

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called windows defender...

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new spyware alert... though this alert was for changing the home page...

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also have some good games... like chess...

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[RCuber]

nice shots

 

[kalpik]

Cool!

By the way, i have an AMD64 2800+, 512 DDR 400 RAM, 120 GB SATA (Maxtor) and nVidia FX5700 gfx card. Do you think Vist would run *ok* on this config??

 

[RCuber]

i think it would work. and howmuch ram does ur gfx card have??? as its still a beta release it might be slow. I hope release candidates (RC) will be faster .

 

[Choto Cheeta]

Cool!

By the way, i have an AMD64 2800+, 512 DDR 400 RAM, 120 GB SATA (Maxtor) and nVidia FX5700 gfx card. Do you think Vist would run *ok* on this config??

ya... will be ok... but only ok... my SLI nforce chip set with 512MB DDR2 wasnt able to cop with it very well... over all experiance was its slower that my running windows XP... ...

 

[geekysage]

Did you guys manage to get drivers for any onboard devices like soundcard, NIC, Wireless NIC, etc.?

I have an AMD X2 running on nvidia nF4 based mobo, DFI Lanparty nF4 UT Ultra-D to be exact. Video is Connect3D ATI X800GTO. I tried installing Win XP and 2K drivers for the devices in vain.

Hook me up if you know of any site that provides drivers for vista.

 

[kalpik]

My gfx card has 128 MB RAM Keeping my fingers crossed for the final release!

 

[Choto Cheeta]

Did you guys manage to get drivers for any onboard devices like soundcard, NIC, Wireless NIC, etc.?

I have an AMD X2 running on nvidia nF4 based mobo, DFI Lanparty nF4 UT Ultra-D to be exact. Video is Connect3D ATI X800GTO. I tried installing Win XP and 2K drivers for the devices in vain.

Hook me up if you know of any site that provides drivers for vista.

try the vista autoupdate... i did... & found what it needed... otherway... MS says (Relese Note for vista beta 2) that driver for winXP Sp2 should work with vista... but its a issue for nforce... so its recomended to run the auto update...

My gfx card has 128 MB RAM Keeping my fingers crossed for the final release!

it will do.. u should be able to run vista...

onething... i tried this install on a 845 intel board... didnt worked out... it says minimum 865 .. but a via chip set older than 845 was able to run vista... also MS beta web site says that P III 533 Mhz is going to be the minimum system requirdment... then i wounder why this built refused to run on 845???

 

[geekysage]

I know an autoupdate would prolly solve the problem but i have only wireless internet and the damn thing (PCI wireless NIC) is not taking any driver in vista! Had the ethernet card been working, i would have set my laptop as the gateway but sadly even the onboard ethernet is not taking any driver (fuking nforce controller.)

 

[Choto Cheeta]

I know an autoupdate would prolly solve the problem but i have only wireless internet and the damn thing (PCI wireless NIC) is not taking any driver in vista! Had the ethernet card been working, i would have set my laptop as the gateway but sadly even the onboard ethernet is not taking any driver (fuking nforce controller.)

then would be a little tough... but hanvt u hard about VMware?? vista is full compatable with it... so isuggest u run that vmware from XP then install vista over it as a virtual PC...

 

[Satissh S]

Nice Screenshots and review. Hope it's more secure this time around. I guess www.windowsupdate.com doesn't support updates for Vista, correct me if wrong..

 

[Choto Cheeta]

one other thing... this version of windows doesnt use boot.ini anymore....

see what i got, when opend boot.ini in winXP as i have dual boot system...

;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

 

[Choto Cheeta]

Nice Screenshots and review. Hope it's more secure this time around. I guess www.windowsupdate.com doesn't support updates for Vista, correct me if wrong..

yup... but not only that... MS stilll dont give any support on line manually.. its total autometic.. even when i hit autoupdate on the IE.. i end up here...

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but autometically downloads them... when i clicked the start bar notifycation area icon... i get this...

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[anandk]

nice work !

 

[vijay_7287]

i am not able to c any off the pics
wat could be the prob

 

[geekysage]

then would be a little tough... but hanvt u hard about VMware?? vista is full compatable with it... so isuggest u run that vmware from XP then install vista over it as a virtual PC...

I have the vmware workstation version lying around from my old job but i never needed to use it at home. Anyway, wouldn't that still require all the drivers the same way it does now? I am getting sick of all this and might very well uninstall vista altogether, most apps will not work on it anyway, rite?

Nevertheless, thanks for sticking around to answer my (moronic) questions.

 

[Choto Cheeta]

then would be a little tough... but hanvt u hard about VMware?? vista is full compatable with it... so isuggest u run that vmware from XP then install vista over it as a virtual PC...

I have the vmware workstation version lying around from my old job but i never needed to use it at home. Anyway, wouldn't that still require all the drivers the same way it does now? I am getting sick of all this and might very well uninstall vista altogether, most apps will not work on it anyway, rite?

Nevertheless, thanks for sticking around to answer my (moronic) questions.

hay dont lose hope this fast... have u tried this sites??

*support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=19938

*support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=19933

regading nforce chipset...

*www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_75.03.html

but ur board doesnt seems to have separate drivers for vista... thoough try those updated XP or 2k3 ones..

*www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Download/dr...D=3471&CATEGORY_TYPE=LP&STATUS_FLAG=A&SITE=US


one other thing... it seems to me that the IE 7 of vista perfoms better than any other version ever of IE...

 

[RCuber]

hey guys if u have the media center feature then please post some images

 

[kumarmohit]

is dektop sidebar eliminated?

 

[AGENT_SMITH]

saurav_cheeta
i was just curios
u said u have an amd sysstem
and the screenshot with the camera

one shows a intel extreme graphics icon in tray

adding a new digicam...
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