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Windows Vista Leaks ... Again!
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Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
There's nothing I hate more than 'smart' features that try to second guess what I want to do.
Smiles and Cries
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Jill Sandwich said:
agreed
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
I see your paperclip and raise you by Windows RG (Really Good edition)
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
Offical name of Longhorn
Christoff Yurievich
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so if I wanted to get this and try it out, what would I need to do?
Christoff Yurievich
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well yeah, that one's a given. I meant more in the way of my computer such as will I need any memory upgrades or will I need a new partition so I don't lose my XP, etc.
Let me save you guys the trouble: I'm 99% sure you don't really want it.
Why? It is a slow, buggy, beta OS. I had it running on a 1.8 Ghz P4, with 768 MB of RAM and it ran like a dog. Most of the visual features that are being hyped are not there. You actually have to hit F5 to get the trash can to refresh (ie if you put something in it it does not show up until you hit F5).
On my system, it installed along with XP, making it dual boot in theory, but the one time I tried to boot into XP, it did not work. I just today restored my machine from a backup image. We use Novell at work and there was no client for it, making work impossible.
It's not worth the fuss. Maybe when beta 2 comes out, but not now.
Why? It is a slow, buggy, beta OS. I had it running on a 1.8 Ghz P4, with 768 MB of RAM and it ran like a dog. Most of the visual features that are being hyped are not there. You actually have to hit F5 to get the trash can to refresh (ie if you put something in it it does not show up until you hit F5).
On my system, it installed along with XP, making it dual boot in theory, but the one time I tried to boot into XP, it did not work. I just today restored my machine from a backup image. We use Novell at work and there was no client for it, making work impossible.
It's not worth the fuss. Maybe when beta 2 comes out, but not now.
I disconnected my SATA drive with my XP installation, and used my old 40gb drive to try and test this out. Has anyone else had success installing this? I'm not. Using another comp now. :\ Not really that pissed, because if it ends up not working it's not like I lost my XP installation (since it's on another drive that will remain disconnected until I'm done fiddling with Vista.)
I know that the upgrade option, while available, does not work, as MS mentions this in the txtfile; from other information I have gathered, you are to have two partitions. One having another MS OS (I put Windows 2000 on it because it installs quickly on a 2400+/1GB machine), and then the other partition would have the beta of vista, installed FROM the OS you first put on. So of course, I installed it from Windows 2000, but not as an upgrade. It finished the first GUI based portion of setup and the comp then restarted. I also copied the disc contents to the hard drive (the same partition that I intend to have Vista on) for faster access (the drive is 5400rpm, so file transferring is slow enough to begin with).
A choice menu of either Windows 2000, Windows Vista Beta, or Windows Vista Beta Setup appears. If you choose Windows 2000, it can't find ntoskrnl.exe. This is to be expected however, according to what I've read in a file that came with the beta and on other sites (which is why I did not put it on the same drive that I have my stable XP installation on.
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So of course I had to restart. I messed up here, I think - by selecting Windows 2000 it seems like it corrupted everything. I did do this by accident however. Now the menu just has Windows 2000 and Vista as options - setup is gone! If you try to run Vista, it says it can't find the file \system32\winload.exe. It did say to put in the vista disc, and from setup, choose repair. The setup repair program looks very very promising, but as of right now it really sucks. It could not automatically fix the issue, even though it was just a few files that were missing, which (I would assume) a completed repair program would be able to successfully do. Reason being is because all it has to do is decompress the needed files from the disc and then put it on the hard drive.
Then, if you restart again, you now have two options, both of them saying "Microsoft Windows." :lol Buggy as hell.
I am going to try again. I think when I hit Windows 2000 (accidently) the first time instead of Windows Vista Setup (I assume it's still there because that's for it to complete, something that it would automatically go to in the final version of setup?) But yeah, running Windows 2000 must have fucked it up. So now I gotta either repair or reinstall Windows 2000 and try again, yay.
I know that the upgrade option, while available, does not work, as MS mentions this in the txtfile; from other information I have gathered, you are to have two partitions. One having another MS OS (I put Windows 2000 on it because it installs quickly on a 2400+/1GB machine), and then the other partition would have the beta of vista, installed FROM the OS you first put on. So of course, I installed it from Windows 2000, but not as an upgrade. It finished the first GUI based portion of setup and the comp then restarted. I also copied the disc contents to the hard drive (the same partition that I intend to have Vista on) for faster access (the drive is 5400rpm, so file transferring is slow enough to begin with).
A choice menu of either Windows 2000, Windows Vista Beta, or Windows Vista Beta Setup appears. If you choose Windows 2000, it can't find ntoskrnl.exe. This is to be expected however, according to what I've read in a file that came with the beta and on other sites (which is why I did not put it on the same drive that I have my stable XP installation on.
) So of course I had to restart. I messed up here, I think - by selecting Windows 2000 it seems like it corrupted everything. I did do this by accident however. Now the menu just has Windows 2000 and Vista as options - setup is gone! If you try to run Vista, it says it can't find the file \system32\winload.exe. It did say to put in the vista disc, and from setup, choose repair. The setup repair program looks very very promising, but as of right now it really sucks. It could not automatically fix the issue, even though it was just a few files that were missing, which (I would assume) a completed repair program would be able to successfully do. Reason being is because all it has to do is decompress the needed files from the disc and then put it on the hard drive.
Then, if you restart again, you now have two options, both of them saying "Microsoft Windows." :lol Buggy as hell.
I am going to try again. I think when I hit Windows 2000 (accidently) the first time instead of Windows Vista Setup (I assume it's still there because that's for it to complete, something that it would automatically go to in the final version of setup?) But yeah, running Windows 2000 must have fucked it up. So now I gotta either repair or reinstall Windows 2000 and try again, yay.
Yep, I got it. Using it now. I even got my rather obscure RaLink Wireless NIC to work. Very nice looking OS, superior to XP's look, very satisfied overall. A little buggy though.
What I did was still have the two partitions, but I left the DVD in at startup and just installed right off the disc to the empty partition. It worked, but it took a looooong time.
btw, do you know how to disable validation?
What I did was still have the two partitions, but I left the DVD in at startup and just installed right off the disc to the empty partition. It worked, but it took a looooong time.
btw, do you know how to disable validation?
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