Vista beta testing. Is anyone doing it?

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I'm doing it, or at least, I have access to the beta's through MSDN. If your specs are beefy enough, you can run it on another hard drive or another partition, and dual boot with whatever OSes you have on there already.

Currently, I'm booting Windows XP Pro, Vista, and Gentoo Linux on one hard drive without any problems.

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I would like to test it, but of course i never know where or how to get the information on beta testing :(

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Yeah, I used Vista build 5308 (Feb 06). Seemed pretty cool, but there are still quite a bit of bugs. On my system (Athlon 64 2800+, nForce4, 1 Gig, 120 Gig, FX5200 with 128 MB), it seemed fine at firs, but then got sluggish.

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I'd really like to but with any Microsoft Beta software it always fails the install on my PC. I have MCE which could be a problem but i dont know why? I have tried to install Office 12 and IE7 but neither worked. Anyone know why

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yup...im testing it and its not that convincing....there are only slightly better features....they need to prove that its worth upgrading from xp

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ya same here.. its folder and look has gone a bit good but nothing else.. it also take hell lot of time to install:mad:

one thing good is while installing its not req u to stay..

and also cant do net.. not secured.. i crashed my system i 7 days:mad:

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hmm...that would suck

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Just installed build 5384 ,install only took 55 min from start to the desktop .video seems a little shakey ,
MyComputer .p4 2.8 512 meg ram 128 meg radeon 5250,80gig hdd 7200spin 16x dvd rw for install.

edit= fixed video shutter, vistas default monitor refresh rate was 44 hrtz ,changed to 75 hrtz

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me too, ...I did as Alc said above, my HDD partitioned so that I could install it on "D" so it gives me the dual-boot option. My Nero7 wouldn't install, and the bundled "Windows DVD Maker" wouldn't run, whining about my video card. Nero7 works fine on my XP Pro so I've reported the bug to M$. Also I haven't found a "Run" in the start menu yet, so all the trouble-shooting routines thru the "cmd" prompt are unavailable, ...might be somewhere, or alternative service options may be in there. It PnP'd ALL my device drivers, tho that's possibly because they're all running on my XP on "C". Also it won't run my old DOS-based tetris like XP did ...that's a MAJOR peeve with me cuz that's what I do when installing software on customers' machines. Still it mostly works and gives us a ten-month head start before it dies (31May07), at which time I suppose the retail version hits the streets. Oh ya, it wouldn't let me install good old AVG, saying there were known bugs. The "Solution" procedure steers one to a trial Panda A/virus that dies in about sixty days. I don't wanna start paying for software like that again! ...."the Old Geek"

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not running it right now but i think run is in the start ,all programs accessories ,

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That's kinda illogical, isn't it? How can you call the run box an accessory?

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not running it right now but i think run is in the start ,all programs accessories ,

..yup, it's there as you say, ...definitely illogical as Gold mentioned ,...what I did just now was whack an icon onto desktop and moved it into quicklaunch, ...I use that "accessory" all the time for checking my networks, pinging etc. Thanks for that tip Caper ..."the Old Geek"

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I was going to do a beta test but decided against it. Windows + Beta = Trouble. Mite do in the future if I can get a spare PC. Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but has anyone tried it over Microsofts Virtual PC? I heard somewhere that it does work but im not to sure.

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I was going to do a beta test but decided against it. Windows + Beta = Trouble. Mite do in the future if I can get a spare PC. Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but has anyone tried it over Microsofts Virtual PC? I heard somewhere that it does work but im not to sure.

I'm not familiar with Virtual PC, but have been running Vista on a separate partition giving me a dual-boot option, and have had quite a bit of fun looking it over. It dies next May, at which time I expect to just format the drive and carry on, meanwhile I get the jump on the OS so when my customers come with their problems I'll be ready. It's got lots of little bugs but is overall a slick-looking UI and seems very stable. ..."the Old Geek"

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Personally, i feel Vista is nothing but eye candy...

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Cant wait to get it...hehehehe

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I was going to do a beta test but decided against it. Windows + Beta = Trouble. Mite do in the future if I can get a spare PC. Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but has anyone tried it over Microsofts Virtual PC? I heard somewhere that it does work but im not to sure.

I've run it in both Virtual PC and in VMWare. I had an extra 1GB of RAM I could devote to it while running in the virtual machine. Performance isn't all that great, and that makes sense, considering how heavily Vista uses the graphics hardware to do Window rendering. (Virtual PC can't use the graphics hardware directly-- it has to use an emulated driver)

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Vista on vmware sucks, i couldn't even get it installed. i just have it on a spare hard drive. i'm only impressed with the eye candy stuff, the kernel itself is more secure than xp's, but it still sucks, there's even viruses for vista now. that's sad.

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Viruses for Vista already? That's interesting...