dvrabel on 9/6/2006 at 22:46
Not unexpectedly, Microsoft's pages for ordering the DVDs fails to render correctly on Firefox.
Renzatic on 10/6/2006 at 02:40
Yup, there were a ton of little problems I've had to face before I could grab my own copy.
I had to settle on the 32 bit version because, after the power failure, I've been denied access to the x64 link. I dunno why, or even if it's a permenant ban, but until my DVD comes in (which, like dvrabel said above, wouldn't render correctly in Firefox), I'm stuck using a copy I don't want.
I hope to god Vista is more user friendly and less craptastic than the process to get the damn beta has been for me.
Renzatic on 10/6/2006 at 19:40
I've finally got it installed. After fighting with my network cards and other miscellaneous things, I've finally managed to get everything about up and running.
My first impressions, starting with the good...
It's neat looking. I like how everything is organized, and opening a window is an almost dramatic experience now.
The bad. I hate how it makes you check and doublecheck everything you do. Wanna change a setting? Vista will ask you if it were actually you that made the change, if you're sure you wanna change it, and if you're really, really sure that's what you want to do. Hopefully there's a way to turn this off, cuz it's more than a little annoying.
Beyond that, it's Windows. Just a few more cool features and alot fatter.
Fingernail on 10/6/2006 at 19:41
was that fatter or faster? :confused:
Renzatic on 10/6/2006 at 19:43
Fatter. It eats up 8 gig of harddrive space and takes up about 500 meg of ram on a fresh boot.
I haven't spent much time playing with it yet, though. I might be able to get the ram usage down a bit.
David on 10/6/2006 at 19:48
Control Panel > User Accounts > Change Security Settings.
It bugged the hell out me of too.
Now, I actually quite like Vista. It does look pretty, and its blindingly fast for me, however it is using an absolute butt-load of RAM. I know that everything is compiled as debug, so it will use a LOT of RAM, but yikes!
The Start Menu has been tweaked from XP - it no longer expands outward in levels, instead it works like 'Folder' sidebar of an Explorer Window.
IE7 in Vista is actually pretty good. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if it halted IE's plummeting market share.
The colourmixer for the themes is nice. You are no longer limited to two or three colour variations per theme, you can mix your own!
I fear the amount of fading windows will bug some people, and will probably bug me after a while, but its quite nice at the moment.
Wireless networking was a absolute bitch for me to get working.
It turns out if the manufacturer's helper program is even installed then the Wireless network will fail horribly.
Since I worked that out it's been fine, very stable.
I'm installing a couple of games now to try out and see how DirectX10 works.
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Ulukai on 10/6/2006 at 22:01
IE7 seems a lot speedier than firefox, especially when going back a page in the browser ( no doubt an Internet Person will explain why for me :) )
I like what they've done with Media Player, it has lost the ghey and the Library puts Winamp's equivalent to shame.
Didn't have any trouble with wireless networking, my wireless network connected as soon as I told it my SSID ( No encryption, SSID broadcaste disabled, MAC filtering enabled).
The window fading, poping, and general animation is nice and speedy and doesn't seem to get in the way.
But hell yes, it eats RAM like it's going out of fashion. Currently, I've got IE7 open, got a download going on some drivers and we're sitting at 768Mb.
Oh, and I love the sound Solitaire makes when the cards are dealt :D
New Horizon on 10/6/2006 at 22:23
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Fatter. It eats up 8 gig of harddrive space and takes up about 500 meg of ram on a fresh boot.
I haven't spent much time playing with it yet, though. I might be able to get the ram usage down a bit.
Just go in and turn off a load of the crappy services they've got running. If memory serves, I was able to get my system down to around 170 megs of ram at boot up...maybe a bit less.
WingedKagouti on 10/6/2006 at 23:07
Quote Posted by Ulukai
IE7 seems a lot speedier than firefox, especially when going back a page in the browser ( no doubt an Internet Person will explain why for me :) )
Cached html & images means you won't have to download something twice if you revisit a page. Most browsers have user-configurable cache settings, it's likely that FF and IE7 are using different settings for you. FF may be set up to check the page first while IE7 just hands you the cached version without telling.
