5536 installed on 3 out of 4 PC's

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Lang Murphy

Walp... D/L'd 5536 today and installed on 3 PC's successfully (see
Installation NG for details). I'm writing this on a Latitude D620 with
512MB's RAM and a 60GB hard drive. I haven't installed any other apps yet,
so I'm not sure how much of a load this PC will take before its performance
suffers. Just using Windows Mail it's fine.

The only PC 5536 setup failed on was my old (LOL) Dell XPS Gen 2. Both 5384
and 5472 installed fine when I provided the Intel SATA controller driver on
floppy. 5536 BSOD's when it tries to install the driver from iastor.inf.
Tried it 3 times.

Hmmm... interesting... I was sitting on the back deck, using Wi-Fi nic, and,
boom, no connectivity. Brought the laptop upstairs into the same room with
the router and Vista could not find my network. Had to restart the PC to get
Wi-Fi back. Weird. Will have to keep an eye on this. 5472 worked flawlessly
with this PC, at least in terms of Wi-Fi.

Overall, 5536 seems to setup OK. Finds and updates drivers well. This PC
didn't have a WDDM video driver in 5472 and now it does so it's running
Aero, although, by default, I believe, Vista starts in Vista Basic mode if a
PC has less than 1GB RAM. I had to go into Personalize/Window Color and
Appearance which presents the "classic" UI when running in Vista Basic and
change it to Vista Aero, and had to do that twice, before Window Color and
Appearance went into Aero mode. If that makes any sense to y'all.

They enlarged the button that presents the Restart/Shutdown/Etc. menu. It's
still smaller than the other two buttons, but probably twice the size of
what it used to be.

Too early to pass judgement... just sharing my experiences today. I'm back
on the back deck... we'll see if I lose Wi-Fi again...

Lang
 

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