Today Could be my Lucky Day, According to MSN Horoscopes, MSDN Tester's Just Might get Windows Vista Build 5536 Today, Just FYI. P.S. I am a Leo, Just FYI.

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:42:40 +0100, Jupiter Jones wrote: It is not reasonable to compare the Technical Beta testers to MSDN/Tech Net subscribers. While individuals may have varying agendas, the main purpose of the programs are very different from the Technical Beta.

I love to learn; so when the Media Center for Vista could not install my TV tuner I came to this discussion board for a fix. And I'll be darned if I didn't find one! SO to all those special people that take the time to answer questions; thanks for the lessons. This time I think I'll actually leave Vista installed! -- always learning

I already have tried e-mailing all 3 of the following: Paul Donnelly, The Windows Vista Beta Team, and The Microsoft Connect Beta Team, the Results Were Not Good, Just FYI. "firth" wrote in message ... How exactly do you plan on "going on strike"? How exactly is that supposed to quicken the...

That is Not what the Windows Vista Beta Team Blog says, Just FYI. "Jason" wrote in message ... Kevin, No offence, but being a MSDN or TechNet Plus subscriber does not entitle you to interm builds, FYI. Just be grateful that you have been given a chance to use Vista. RC1 will be out soon and should even be better then...

I have the same problem with My Asus K8N-E Delluxe (Nforce4) motherboard. Does anyone already have a solution The strange thing is that when I install it on my MSI K8N Diamond deluxe with for the rest almost the same hardware components as my Asus board the installation works just fine. My specs of both systems are Asus: 1 x 300 Gb Maxtor SATA drive, AMD 64 3000+ processor, 2 x 1 Gb...

Hey Mike, I put in my specs for my system in another part of this forum, but if you need it again, it is a AMD athlon 3200 processor, Soltek motherboard, socket 939, I have a Ati video card X800 XT All-in-one-wonder. I have 2 gigs of memory and all total for the three hard drives, two internal one external, 600 gb. I have a IDE Western Digital Hard Drive with 80 gigs, a SATA drive of...

Microsoft, why you are ignoring all these users who love the current Xp themes? I want to run Windows Basic on my computer, and I want it to look close to the current Xp themes. The current Windows Basic theme is actually very basic! Going to Vista will be downgrading the OS from Xp to before Xp.

I thought it was broken but realized the settings I was looking for have another page with more settings that override the first page! Right click the "start menu" button then properties, that is the first page with the option with "store and display a list of recently opened programs", now click "Customize" next to the option above with the radio button that says "Start Menu". On that page...

Lang Murphy wrote: I would not recommend trying to run Vista on a system with only 512MB's RAM. Unless all you do is surf the web, you're not going to be happy with performance. How do you know...? -- Chris Game

Hi - I had been running Vista Beta 2 Build 5384 as a general beta tester. I found a few bugs and reported them. But because Build 5384 ran slowly, I removed it. It's my understanding that subsequent Builds have solved many of the speed problems, but those builds are available to general beta testers. Question: When RC1 is released, will I have to reinstall Build 5384, or will I be able...

A safe assumption, but they drop new builds every day, if not multiple times a day, and many of the issues you may be having in, again, I assume build 5384, may very well already be fixed. For example; in 5472, there was no video driver for the Intel 945GM chipset. In 5536, there are drivers, so that's fixed. If I were still running 5472, the answer to fixing my video card driver would be to...

I would hope that no one in their right mind would want to install Word for Windows 1.0 on anything, I was just using it as an example of asking for help for outdated software. Vista Beta 2 is outdated software. Build 5536, which I downloaded last Friday, for all intents and purposes, is outdated software because I am sure there a new builds already. Lang "William" wrote...

Yes Mario, I really am 13 years old. And for those of you who wonder where I got 5536, today there are many ways to find it over google and torrents, but I still don't do it that way. My school's Campus Technologist is indeed a beta tester. She does everything legal, so she sent a letter to the beta testing group, and asked them if it was possible for her to issue me copies of the betas,...

Lang Murphy wrote: Hmmm, wouldn't RC2 precede RC1? Not that it matters whatsoever. Just wasting time, I am. Lang No, RC2 would come after RC1 just like it did in Win x64. The commonly accepted method of counting puts

There seems to be a "touchy-feely" aspect to the nomenclature?

Can anyone offer some been there - done that experience with video cards & Vista. My old 128 Meg ATI Sapphire worked fine for all videos, but would not allow me to burn DVDs on Vista. I upgraded to a 256 meg Nvidia 6200LE from Tiger Direct in the hopes that it would solve the problem... instead it made things worse. Now it will not play WMV files clearly. I am now faced with trying to...

I tried to change my login password but the system still used the old password. It takes the change with no error messages, but the system still uses the old password. Thanks

Recently, I've noticed some people on here who have 5472 & 5536, who are not technet members, hence pirates. I'm alittle surprised that people who pirate Vista have the intelligence (or lack thereof) to post here; asking for help on a Microsoft created newsgroup. I know most of you will say "So what? It's a beta release". Non-the-less, a pirate is a pirate, right? Now we all know that...

I doubt cmedia will get their act together for their new drivers for their most basic motherboard chipsets used by manufactures like asus. I've been using the win xp drivers, and it works...barely. I have a 7.1 surround sound system set up and all I get is the center speaker. "JW" wrote: By the time of the final release of Vista all of the hardware suppliers should have released to MS...