The new release is not available to members of the public. The next publically available release should be available in the comming weeks. It will be available from the following website: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

I noticed problems with window mode/full screen mode when running DOS programs from the Vista command line "cmd.exe". Let us take as example an MS-DOS program which you will find e.g. at INTEL. It is the CPU command line identification tool CPUID.EXE. This program shows up fine in window or full screen mode when started from the "cmd.exe"-window until Windows 2000. When started under Windows...

Why bother developing glass and working on letting the user customize the colors and transparency when your just going to yank it away when a screens maximized? Which it alot of the time. I cant even believe there is no option to disable this happening. Sure you could argue it looks more confusing seeing things blurred in the bg, I think not, Id like an option. With my transparency, set how...

I've got a problem, downloading from either ftp/www all i can get is a max of 20k/sec instead of 480k/sec which i can still get using my other pc with windows xp on or on my pc prior to installing Vista 5536. My network cards are both on board and are Intel PCI Express Gigabit LAN controller and Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LAN controller

Actually, a beta of the beta is out now. ;) Windows Vista Pre-RC1 -- On my 4th attempt to download the monster that is Vista, on Verizon 768k DSL. FiOS install can''''t come soon enough. "Jimmy Brush" wrote:

Why is the Admin account blocked. Having screwed up video drivers, I tried to roll back (grayed out), and then boot to safe mode only to find that the admin account was disabled

AOL Triton doesn't work, and neither does the standard version. I have had success with AIM Pro, however. It seems to take up minimal RAM. "Grant" wrote: I don't know if this is just me, or if it's everyone, but I cant install any version of AIM. And I dont want to use Trillian because it uses up too much ram. Like when I go to install the AIM 5.8 it nearly finishes the setup and ...

I can log in, get to my desktop, and do things for about 2 minutes, then the mouse starts to jerk about then it just freezes altogether. Tried running in safe mode and the same thing happens

It keeps asking me if I want to run each bloddy program I use. Yes I do want to run it, that's why I clikced it!!! How the hell do I stop Defender asking me every move I make? tia

Grant, After doing a fresh install of Pre-RC1, I went to AIM's website, and downloaded the version before Triton, and so far, no issues. (I'll be testing out Triton tonight.) I haven't had to 'uninstall' anything yet, but you might want to try wiping anything "AOL/AIM-Related" on your computer before you try again. :) "Grant" wrote:

Intel D915GMH mobo, 1GB DDR400, 80GB SATA, nothing special. Performance Rating will not complete - "Cannot complete assessment" "The assessment or other operation did not complete successfully. This is due to an error being reported from the operating system, driver, or other component." News to me - noting in Event Logs, and a System Health Check gives all green lights except that a rating...

It worked fine on 5384 but now wont even install in 5536. -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Pro SP2 X 2 + Vista Beta 5536

Hi, I didn't where best to post this so I thought that this would be the best place. I recently a SanDisk Imagemate 5 in 1 card reader. If I live the device plugged in when I shut my computer down then the next time I start it up it hangs up at the startup screen. As soon as I disconnect the device my computer boots right up. Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how to fix this? This is...

What's recommended here? I have 1G RAM and the Windows-manged PF is 1.3. What happened to 1.5-3x?

I dont think that rounding down to the lowest component is correct, because i have the same amount of ram as Len, and my other components dont rank as high as his, and my total performance rating was 3... "Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote: Performance Rating is rounded down to the nearest whole number of the lowest rated component. In your case, this is your installed RAM which is rated a ...

when trying to use the new windows backup fearture i'm being asked for a password to create a file backup on my own home network. the problem is i have access to all shared files in both directions. desktop to laptop and laptop to desktop and i never setup a password to do this....if anyone has any suggestions i would welcome all comments...thanks

I have: Asus A8N-SLI Athlon x2 x64 3800+ 2GB RAM NVidia GeForce 6600GT 300GB SATA drive The performance of x86 RC1 is fine. I'd rate it close to WinXP performance. Today I installed the RC1 of x64, and overall it seems "snappier" than the

Trying to restore a complete image backup made yesterday on my drive D: (different partition on the same drive as Vista is installed on). The backup was made successfully using CompletePC Backup and is in a directory called "D:\WindowsImageBackups". I have booted into the Vista DVD disc and selected Recovery Options; CompletePCRestore. However, after scanning my disk for image backups it...

I keep getting the same runtime error popup. Program: C:\Program Files\HP\hpcoretech\comp\hptskmgr.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. What I've done: I found the application in task manager and told it to run in XPsp2 compatability mode. The error keeps occurring.

Where can I find the raw numbers (calculations per second, memory operations per second, etc) which Vista uses as the basis for calculating its Windows Experience Index subscores for the processor, memory, graphics, gaming graphics, and primary hard disk? And how exactly does Vista compute those raw numbers?