Its been a struggle at times and I appreciate the help from this NG especially Vahis for his installation guide, which had I read in the first place would have made life much easier on installation attempts 1 to 4. Suse 10.1 is now up and running and it is pretty good. I was a bit annoyed at first as I had a lot of problems but it was worth the effort. The Samba networking is very good, no...

I have a system with 2 hard drives. My original Windows XP drive and a second one that added to test Vista beta 2. When I installed beta 2 I got a boot menu that let's me select what system to boot. Now I want to remove beta 2 and install Vista 5536. But I'm not sure about the procedure for doing this. I've also seen that when I boot with XP of Vista my HD letters changes and I'm afraid to...

Hi all, Attached is the Tips and Tricks document I made. I know I am leaving something out...please read and if you have something I should add or change feel free to let me know. Tom Ziegmann Microsoft Certified Professional Windows Vista / Server Longhorn Technical Beta Tester Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Technical Beta Tester

My 1440x990 Vista 5536 desktop: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/jogiba/Vista5536Pre-RC1desktop.jpg Halo 3 wallpaper at Bungie: http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo3/gallery.aspx?gallery=Wallpaper&page=1

Hi I have noticed that TDCANADATRUST web banking does not allow Windows Vista version of IE 7.0 to login into their site, but Windows XPcan.

I love Vista. I just love it. Things seem to run much faster and smoother than in XP and that's on the Beta 2. HOWEVER, While I have been waiting patiently for RC1 to be released, it seems that I missed out on the "pre-Release Candidate" download yesterday because I was busy with the Toronto International Film Festival. I mean, we can't sit and spend 24 hours a day checking every single...

Hello All, If you are having trouble installing Vista Pre-RC1 due to the following error displaying in the setuperr.log file within c:\windows\panther folder, please if you have beta 2 bug it, or if you have an entirely unusable system, e-mail me and I can give you a location to upload your panther folder to and I will bug it. SetupDiBuildDriverInfoList failed

Have installed Pre-RC1 build 5536 over Vista beta 2. Every thing works great except that I seem to have lost my wireless ability. I have done everything that has been suggested disable/enable etc.. nothing seems to show it is there. Worked great on Beta 2. Using system hardware list, it show's it is there. Using network function, it does not show up. Using the IBM ThinkVantage program,...

After 2 failed attempts to download the iso image, on the 3rd I was lucky - have just burned the dvd and tried to upgrade the beta 2. The process seemed to be going smoothly, but then halted at about 20% file extraction with error code 0x80070241. Has any one else experienced this error? Is it possible the dvd did not burn correctly? Thanks in advance, Andrew

Does anyone thats knows what's going on at MSFT, Know the status of their servers ??? something is very wrong downloading build 5536 has failed twice with the akamai download manager both with beta2 5384 and winXp Pro both instances it gives the Iso file but it's only 721kb in size also tried downloading with the browser Ie7 in vista and Ie6sp1 in winXp pro and in both instances it gives...

I've installed this build to a virtual pc this time and it seems to run faster than beta 2 did on a full install. UAC has gotten less annoying and chose to leave this enabled. Vista thinks I have an A: floppy drive, but I don't. Still can't run glass on a mobile Intel 915gm/gms,910GML express chipset card, maybe it's the VPC..I dunno.

Just done a clean install of build 5536 on the drive Beta 2 was on. Is it safe to delete the 'windows.old' folder once i've finished with it?

I have some software I wanna install in vista, will the .net framework 1.1 work under vista? Any clues, or suggestions? Guess I could try and see what happens.

I tried the akamia download and it downloaded the entire iso file close to 3 gigs. It then says it is checking the integrity and fails which deletes the iso. Then I downloaded the iso through Firefox browser. Burned the ISO DVD. Setup runs takes the product key and dies during the copying files stage saying it could not find files and to check the source for corruption. Tried reburning ISO...

I am trying to find information about what features are on each version of Vista - like home, home premium, etc. Every site I try including the MS one just really have broad descriptions about entertainment etc and do not actually properly list features. What I am looking for is maybe a comparison table where I can see side by side what features each version has. Does such a table exist please?

I wish to trial Vista Beta 2 Build 5384 - but need a Product Key - Microsoft advise me to get one from anyone who is not going to use theirs 10 times - which is the limit on each key. Anyone willing to give me a copy - it would be greatly appreciated -- roscoerp

Hi, I just learned from some newsletters about the leak of Vista pricing and I know that is not the "official" announcement. In any case, just wondering what will be counted as an "upgrade"? Does it mean that owning XP or even earlier version is eligible for the upgrade or other? Note: Based on the leaked news, upgrade price is not so bad.

In the bug tool, there is the recorder option to record your clicks so you can reproduce a problem and it all gets convert to text and sent to MS. What I need to know is does the recorder also record background errors and any dialogue mentioned in pop up errors? I need to file an important bug, but if it does not record those then I will not bother recording them, will only do a text summary.

Hey all, I'm running Windows Vista PR-1. Thus far, it looks pretty amazing (havn't seen any previous versions). But I've run into some issues whilst running Quake 3 Arena. There seems to be very little audio options for my sound card (Soundblaster Live! Value!). I can't seem to specifiy headphone mode, nor tweak the sound to fit my needs. Is there any way to install a decent driver for my...

5536 is quite a bit better than Beta 2... especially performance. It's almost as fast as XP. It still has some work to be done, however. First of all, my performance rating (Windows Experience Index) went up overall. My lowest rated item was my processor at 3.3, while in Beta 2, my lowest rated item was my RAM at 3.0. My RAM in 5536 is now at 4.0. In fact, except for my CPU,...