Having been part of the team of volunteers (only a small part tho lol) I
have seen vista grow and improve from the start. The only issue I have now
is that companies like ATI/AMD and NVIDIA have not rleeased drivers for
their hardware!

They got as far as RC1 and then went no further - even tho there are RC2 and
RTM which have been produced and tested as much as they can be, so any new
issues that come up with hardware on your systems when vista is released
will be down to them, NOT MS - and NOT the thousands of beta testers who
hounded the hardware companies for updated drivers cdesigned to work with
vista.

I have Vista Ultimate running on my machine at the mo and am a hardened
gamer playing BF2 and BF2142 for the most part, and all I can say is that
VISTA rocks! I have my system dual booted so that my XP is still available,
but have found that bearing in mind i am on a lower graphics card than
normal at the mo the games are smoother on vista, i can set my graphics
higher and not get any problems.

The card I have at the mo is a 128mb Radeon 9550 - look up the specs to see
how slow it is lol, the card I had before was the Radeon X700 256mb -
compare the specs!, and the card I am awaiting delivery of is the Radeon
X1300 PRO check out those specs agains the other two (256mb memory on this
one too). While they are not as sharp as the x700 was, they are sharper than
under XP which when you consider a nice fresh XP uses only around 190mb of
system ram, and a standard Vista fresh install uses between 300 and 450mb of
ram depending on the features you run the fact that the games work better
tells you a lot!

Vista is as ready for release as it can be under the circumstances, dont
blame MS for probs on release, blame the lazy sods who produced your
hardware for not producing the stuff they should have so we could iron out
hardware bugs!

Happy new year

Stu
Colin Thompson wrote in message
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Most of the problems I'm seeing with RTM are driver related of issues
around third party apps no longer having access to parts of the OS due to
security. If the latter of these mean that Vista is more secure and STABLE
I'll put up with waiting for third party software producers to release
Vista versions.

I have to say though there are very few things that I can't do on Vista
and for those I have an XP Virtual machine loaded on Vista.

I've even left UAC on for the first time when I installed RTM, I still am
yet to be convinced that UAC is worth the hassle but I'll give it a go.

Colin T
"Clayton" wrote in message
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I am running RTM now and on a clean install it's very stable, Toshiba has
finally released it's drivers for Vista and alot of the software works ok,
some don't but that's a problem for them to make it work on Vista if they
want to continue selling software


"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote in message
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Russ;
No, because it is not a matter of updates changing a Beta to an RTM.

Some Beta builds can be upgraded to RTM while others can not.
IIRC, RC-1 can be upgraded.
You would need to follow a similar procedure as any other upgrade.
However most suggest a Clean Install instead of an upgrade of a Beta.
This ensures there is no Beta code left from the previous OS.

Windows Easy Transfer can help you save data and settings before
starting the process.


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http://www.dts-l.org


"Russ Walden" wrote in message
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Mike --

I'm running a fully updated version of RC1 (5600) [I was on a trip and
missed RC2], and it is working well for me.

I plan to buy Ultimate when it's released, but I really don't want to
go
through the whole install process again. Can I use my newly purchased
Product Key to Activate my current install, and then just let the
update
process take it from there?

Thanks,
Russ Walden

Did you upgrade or clean install for these problems? I havent had any of
those (clean install). However I did fnd that there is an issue when your
computer puts itself on standby if you use a router, you get local network
instantly, but you have to either fiddle around and reair or restart the
system before it gives back internet access!

Stu
"Stuart [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I'm now seeing problems re-enabling my monitors on both of these Vista
systems after Vista turns them off according to the power plan. Guess I'll
have to disable that too

Oh well, that's what we get for being early deployers

"Clayton" wrote:

I agree Stuart, all that and alot of the times non responsive resulting
in a
force shutdown


"Stuart [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I too am running Vista RTM and it's pretty stable. Both of my
workstations
were upgrades from XP Pro. The biggest problems I've seen to date a

1) Occasional Explorer crashes
2) Unstable Start Menu Program folder items
3) Sleep/Hibernate - doesn't work reliabily on either of my Dell
workstations
4) Network password functionality loss

Stuart.
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"John" wrote:

I'm running the RTM version of Ultimate Edition, and don't have any
real
complaints. Third-party companies are a bit too slow to release Vista
drivers
and Vista-compatible versions of their software, but that's not
Microsoft's
fault. Developers have had the tools they needed to do this for months
now.

The only real problem I'm having with the OS is the issue of my
profiles
periodically not loading. That one is pretty frustrating, and no one
here
or
on the MSDN group has been able to help. I'll probably just live with
it
for
a while and see if it clears up over time (if other people end up
having
the
same problem, MS will undoubtedly release a fix). If it doesn't, I'll
probably break down and cough up the money to open a support case with
MS. If
it turns out to be a bug in their software, I'll get my money back.



"tacwalker" wrote:

I have been on steam with Microsoft products ever since the "Intel
Inside" TV
advertisement back in the 1995 TV ad with some Nuns (in
Europe...perhaps
Italy) selling wine through their web site. Because of that
advertisement, I
had to have, HAD TO HAVE (even though I new nothing about computers)
a
computer with "Microsoft Windows 95" and a MODEM.
And get one I did!...witha MODEM and an ISP. WOW!!!!!
I have been entranced ever since with the world of computer (pc)
operating
systems and the Internet.
I have been using Windows Vista build 5744 since its' release back
in
October. I have used it and abused it. And...are there issues?
Absof#@kinglutely!
I truly believe that releasing this version of Windows to the
general
public, on the advertised release date of January/February, will be
a
gigantic error on Microsoft's behalf.
I am not a software geek. I am not a programmer, and I am not an
MSDN
MVP.
No offence tp MVP's. I have received very good advice from you
people.

Everything I know regarding Microsoft's software (other software as
well) is
from buying it, installing it, never looking at the Readmes, and
finding
solutions to problems afterwards. These solutions come from several
sources,
and some of them are (in order of importance) forums;
books/magazines
(for
the Linux users: books\magazines); friends, screwing with the
registry,
and,
last but not least and certainly not all...Microsoft's online
support.

I really enjoy Vista. I hope everything turns out OK for Microsoft.
But...I
gotta tell ya...
things don't look good.

Too early!
Too soon!

I solved a great deal of the issues I have experienced with build
5744.
To
the point, in fact, where I would place Vista "far" ahead of any
other
os
when it comes to User simplicity...ironic as that sounds. Ironic
because
there are too many hurdles. I am though, like most of you here in
this
forum,
a beta tester. As a Vista beta tester ("if given a vote"?) I would
not
give
Vista the Green Light on "the" scheduled public release date.
Some of you have releases that are beyond build 5744, and some of
you
have a
final prepublic release of Vista. From what I have gleaned from your
posts,
Vista is ailing.

I am going to click on the "Post" button now.
I probably shouldn't...
But...




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