First, VirtualPC warns that Vista is a bad operating system upon which to run
VirtualPC. That's not entirely true. VirtualPC works pretty okay on Vista
except for some "issues" revolving around the new software that drives what
shows up on the display(s) in front of you. These can be worked around.
Second, Vista's installation procedure is maddeningly obtuse in that it gets
to a point after you have laboriously entered the Product Key and waited for
hours only to find that you have not made its bed comfortable enough: too
few feathers in the pillow, a spring that is sticking it in the back. It's
solution is for you to make the adjustments and start the installation over
FROM THE BEGINNING. Balderdash! (It doesn't like being handed a DYNAMIC
virtual disk to load on. It doesn't like to upgrade to a BASIC virtual disk
with "only" 10.5GB available space. Maybe it doesn't like to upgrade at all.
Who knows?) Third, I'm running Windows Vista Beta 2 on a 2GB RAM 3GHz
clocked machine. But I'm curious about the August CTP which I plan to
virtualize as I am loathe to try again to move off Beta 2. It took me a
while to find and decipher the meaning of the MSDN PASSWORDS page. Nothing
there indicated that the highlighted item was the key that I wanted. More
confusingly, there is a different key that has been labeled "good for all CTP
releases," which it isn't, I can tell you.

Oh, and finding the appropriate place to post this message is a royal pain.
Perhaps some reorganization by someone with a really good paid user interface
developer resume would be in order. Thanks.
--
William McIlroy