^ not large.

My memory commit is only slightly larger than XP's was.

Does anyone have the executable for the Office 2007 beta? I keep trying to download it but I get a 404 when I click the link.

[Edited on June 27, 2006 at 6:35 PM. Reason : .]

6/27/2006 6:34:30 PM

I mean my harddrive is almost full, just wanted to know how much space I needed to free up before I make a new partition. 10g? 15g?

6/27/2006 7:08:58 PM

I had like 23 gigs free, now I have something like 16. If you go to the vista site, it will tell you exactly what you need.

Anyone had any problems with the ATi driver installer? Mine keeps pegging my CPU to 100% at different stages of the installation.

[Edited on June 27, 2006 at 7:18 PM. Reason : .]

6/27/2006 7:17:39 PM

This is all I can find and it is under Premium Ready.

Quote :

"40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space."

I can't clear that much up so wanted to see if it was really that high.

6/27/2006 7:24:05 PM

It wants 15 gigs free on the system checks but doesn't use near that much in the install.

6/27/2006 10:26:52 PM

^ what he said.

Also, I cannot get my 5.1 speakers to work in WMP11/Vista. I only get 2.1 when playing music, and I get a bunch of distorted sound when playing video files.

Installing the latest vista drivers for the audigy 2zs results in a blue screen of death every time.

6/27/2006 10:52:52 PM

^apparently I'm not the only one having this problem.

Creative seems unresponsive to fix the problem because they haven't put out updated vista drivers since November despite numerous problems. I swear I hate creative.

6/28/2006 11:07:56 PM

Anyone had any luck with anti-virus software? I can't get symantec to work.

7/2/2006 7:33:48 PM

I think I'm going to try to install to a dell laptop, d600 on 30 GB drive.

7/2/2006 9:08:19 PM

well im getting killed with spyware, looks like i shouldnt have installed aim

ad-hack needs to hurry up and get something for the new triton

7/3/2006 7:25:15 PM

^ you should hit up oldversion.com

7/3/2006 8:15:20 PM

I still have the install file for 5.5 and the dead aim and serial to go with it but it wouldn't work (im assuming it has problems with Vista, because I used it before with no problems)

I kind of want to play around with Vista some, the Address book is handy.

7/3/2006 8:24:38 PM

looks like the beta is going to be taken off the Internet on Friday

7/3/2006 9:10:40 PM

I got my dvd's in the mail early this week. I love the gadget bar....

7/3/2006 11:36:55 PM

so what product key do you use? My xp one doesn't work, neither did 00000-..., 11111-..., 12345-.....

7/5/2006 7:52:26 PM

you use the one microsoft gives you when you sign up for it. dur

7/5/2006 8:05:13 PM

somehow I was able to download it without getting one...hmmm

sucks for me it's now closed

[Edited on July 5, 2006 at 8:16 PM. Reason : boo-hiss]

7/5/2006 8:13:00 PM

It took me like 3 days to get my DVD.

7/5/2006 8:55:14 PM

for free?

7/5/2006 9:37:29 PM

With shipping and everything it was under $10.

Other than the spyware that I think came from AIM, it seems to be a pretty stable beta release.

7/5/2006 10:01:31 PM

So this key is good for up to 10 machines. Anyone want to be a pal and let me use theirs. This is for work purposes, I need to see how our programs will work with Vista.

7/5/2006 11:32:04 PM

Just make a hotmail account and use that Windows Live login to generate more keys.

7/6/2006 1:27:31 AM

Well I was bored today so I reformatted this drive and did not reinstall AIM.
No more pesky spyware that I couldn't get rid of.

7/6/2006 6:55:26 PM

Quote :

"I swear I hate creative."

Haha, I hate them to but it's hard to blame them for not busting their ass to put out better drivers for a BETA OS...

7/6/2006 8:01:20 PM

yeah, there is no 5.1 with the audigy card either

7/6/2006 8:42:38 PM

Quite annoying how it asks for permission 3 times before it installs software, but that can probably be changed easily.

Dual monitors is kinda buggy. Shutdown is kinda buggy.

IE7 used tons of resources on my laptop.

A good bit of my company's software will not work on it.

Really like the skin and I think the start menu with the way the programs list under the folders will grow on me.

7/7/2006 11:08:10 PM

IE7 is taking up 53mb right now with three tabs open. Oh well 4gb of ram I could run 12 more instances of IE and not have to worry.

7/8/2006 12:32:17 AM

some post images...

8/2/2006 3:11:09 PM

nvm...somehow forgot about google...but what would prolly be the recommended amount of RAM to run Vista smoothly?

8/2/2006 3:16:45 PM

2 gigs

8/2/2006 5:22:21 PM

Someone find out how to make it stop confirming things a million times.

YES, I ACTUALLY WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THIS DIRECTORY THANKS

8/2/2006 6:23:58 PM

Go to Control Panel/User Accounts.

Then click on Change Security Settings.

Uncheck the box.

You should be fine.

8/2/2006 8:53:45 PM

BF2 don't quite work right with ATi's drivers....

8/8/2006 7:00:28 PM

so does any1 know of an exact release date for vista? or is it still vague?

8/9/2006 3:53:05 PM

Feb 2007.

8/9/2006 4:12:27 PM

Quote :

"Haha, I hate them to but it's hard to blame them for not busting their ass to put out better drivers for a BETA OS..."

No it's not. The reason all these companies are having such a hard time with writing drivers for Vista is Microsoft has finally tightened the requirements on driver sets. They've been doing the WHQL program for a while now, but now they have basically blocked non-standard drivers from still being compatible. It should fix a TON of hardware related addressing issues, quite a few of which Creative is famous for causing.

8/9/2006 4:40:40 PM

actually i was fucking amazed how easy it was to install creatives beta 2 driver. At the time i thought there was no way these drivers came from creative.com.

8/9/2006 4:47:22 PM

since when did they support the 2 ZS on vista? Hrmm maybe this will fix my 5.1 problem.

8/9/2006 9:57:15 PM

nope.

It bluescreened on install.

8/10/2006 7:31:34 AM

Do you still HAVE to have floppies with IDE drivers on it if not built into windows or can you use a USB thumb drive or cd-rom, etc?

8/15/2006 11:04:07 AM

I've used burned CD's in the past with XP. Pretty durn sure.

8/15/2006 11:50:21 AM

My suggestion:

Do NOT use PC-cillan Internet Security Suite with this shit. Annoying as hell.

8/17/2006 6:34:06 PM

I actually ended up changing XP back to the default for startup and use that more. I really hope the visual effects in the final release are good and that they get some good apps for the sidebar

8/17/2006 6:44:54 PM

Quote :

"Do you still HAVE to have floppies with IDE drivers on it if not built into windows or can you use a USB thumb drive or cd-rom, etc?"

w/ xp only works w/ floppies (press f6 to install additional drivers screen)

8/18/2006 2:36:15 PM

does anybody have an install left, i'll pay some $$ for it and if you can install it too.

8/18/2006 9:38:53 PM

Quote :

""Do you still HAVE to have floppies with IDE drivers on it if not built into windows or can you use a USB thumb drive or cd-rom, etc?""

no, you can use floppy/usb/cdrom now for additional drivers

8/18/2006 9:54:37 PM

thank God.

so many times i've been pissed off b/c i didn't have floppy drives.

8/18/2006 10:27:43 PM

i hope they never name their OS Master

8/19/2006 1:33:30 AM

RC1 now available http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/download.htm

9/7/2006 4:54:17 PM

.

9/7/2006 5:32:09 PM