Windows Vista RC1 : A user review

[QwertyManiac]

Vista needs an AV before release itself? OMGWTFLMAO

 

[gxsaurav]

U don't need antivirus for Windows Vista

None of the Windows XP Virii work in Windows Vista

There is a version of Avast antivirus, & Trean Micro Antivirus for Vista, but they are next to useless....cos there are no virus for Vista as of yet...& with just some common sence, u can prevent your computer from virii

 

[gary4gar]

@qwerty OMGWTFLMAO means??

 

[mehulved]

@qwerty OMGWTFLMAO means??

I thought everyone knew what it means
OMG - Oh My God
WTF - What The F***
LMAO - Laughing MY A** Off
You will understand one day when you grow up

 

[koolkapoor]

hey saurav,nice review man,hey,can you tell me if i can keep windows-xp on my first drive(300gb maxtor SATA),and install this on my second drive(120gb samsungATA) and flip between the two OS'es upon booting,also,do windows-xp compatible drivers work in windows vista?

 

[gxsaurav]

koolkapoor

yes u can , even I m dual booting on my 120 GB HD, just make a partition of some size which u can remember, then while installing , select that partition
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Rollercoaster

I just checked the IR function in Vista RC1, it's 100% same as XP, same layout same icons, & same function, looks like they have understood, don't fix which isn’t broken

 

[jz2linkinpark]

i just downloaded this huge file from some torrent named 'vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x86fre_client-LR1CFRE_EN_DVD'
and win-rar is what it opens with when i click it,and is inside there is just one measly readme file!'am i missing something here?
this is whats written in the readme:
'This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system
that supports the ISO-13346 "UDF" file system specification.'
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i uninstalled win-rar and now theres an iso file,how do i use that?

 

[mehulved]

i just downloaded this huge file from some torrent named 'vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x86fre_client-LR1CFRE_EN_DVD'
and win-rar is what it opens with when i click it,and is inside there is just one measly readme file!'am i missing something here?
this is whats written in the readme:
'This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system
that supports the ISO-13346 "UDF" file system specification.'
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i uninstalled win-rar and now theres an iso file,how do i use that?

Well it seems you are trying to mount it as isofs whereas it needs to be mounted as udf. Since, the Windows Vista DVD's are in UDF format.

 

[kalpik]

Its not a Win-RAR file.. its an ISO.. Dont open it with WinRAR, just open it in ner and burn it to a DVD.

 

[goobimama]

Gaurav, excellent review, I must say. Keep it up.

 

[gary4gar]

I thought everyone knew what it means
OMG - Oh My God
WTF - What The F***
LMAO - Laughing MY A** Off
You will understand one day when you grow up

offtopic:well i stronly know what it means
but i don't chat that much so don't know short forms, any place where all this f*** will be explained


@gxsaurav
very good review indeed

 

[kalpik]

Hmm.. you got me interested in vista (again! after installing/uninstalling beta2 for like 4-5 times!).. I've got them (both 32 bit and 64 bit) downloaded since a week now.. Just not getting the time.. Lets see most probably ill burn it today..
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Hmm.. Just installed 32bit RC1.. And i must say im really impressed! Its a keeper this time! All my previous problems with vista are solved (to a large extent). I think all people who use XP for general purposes can shift to RC1 now!

 

[gxsaurav]

indyan

I have not, will try in the night, cos quicktime 7.13 is also out

 

[kalpik]

VLC works fine here..

 

[gxsaurav]

Just tried, Pally, Crsytal Player comes with a spyware WhenUsave . It crashes as soon as i play a file. Good thing vista firewall detected it & blocked it

Quicktime 7.1.3 which came yesterday works fine here, although still it crashes when i open another file, when there is a file playing, but it will be fixed

U don't need to worry about you apps not working, if the project is no dead....it will be updated to work on Vista

Gonna try itunes 7 in the night, it's a big download, with a few features copied from WMP11

& seriously yaar, it's Saurav, not Gaurav
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Just installed itunes 7 on vista, as always it is slow, bloated & eats a lot of ram even in mini mode, I wonder how they port it to Windows, seems like Apple apps like eating system resources

Quicktime player now works fine, video playback problem is now solved, & it playes fine

*img160.imageshack.us/img160/7136/ituneslb1.th.jpg

Also, my phone works, vista is a good as a primary OS now. This is using myphoneexplorer 1.45, a great must have App for k750i users

*img160.imageshack.us/img160/6408/myphoneexplorerih9.th.jpg

 

[Rollercoaster]

dude that myphoneexplorer looks really cool..

 

[enoonmai]

Incidentally, for those that didn't get a chance to get a Beta 2 key and hence be able to get a copy of RC1 and get it activated, the CPP is open again for RC1 here. PIDs are open again for the RC1 CPP.

 

[Third Eye]

@gxgaurav: Cool Screens man !

 

[gxsaurav]

well, 14 days over, time to remove vista today

 

[aryayush]

If we activate it with the key, will it become unlimited or be restricted to 180 days?