Installing RTM - A Success Story

[Jeff Gaines]

Having finally down-loaded the RTM at 1:30 this morning (I still need to
discover why an MS browser running on an MS OS blocks all cookies from MS,
but that's another issue) I burned a DVD when I got up.

I booted from the DVD at 08:55, did a clean install and was logged on to
Vista at 09:15, can't think of another OS that installs that quickly

This is on a home-built PC, Intel BadAxe board, E6600 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 3 x
SATA HD and an nVidia 6600GT PCI-e graphics card.

A lot to get used to - many apps seem unable to update their settings
unless you run them as Administrator - which seems to be different to
logging on as an administrator. Once the settings are updated though they
run fine. There's a few apps that Vista is not happy with but I will
contact the manufacturers for updates.

To cap it all I am sending this from my laptop (running XP) using Remote
Desktop to the main PC, works fine.

I thought I would post this because (a) there's not many success stories
being posted (although hat's not unusual in a NG) and (b) it's p*issing
with rain here in the New Forest with high winds and generally a miserable
day!

 

[Guest]

A lot to get used to - many apps seem unable to update their settings
unless you run them as Administrator

UAC does registry and file virtualization to allow bad designed applications
to save data and working with a Standard account. May be you've disable the
UAC ? if yes, enable the UAC.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

My installation of x64 took about 20 minutes also. x86 even installs
quickly in a virtual machine under VPC 2007 beta. I agree that MS has done
a good job on installation times.

 

[zaxon]

i have to back that up...

it installed smoothly..
it works fine and fast..
it looks awesome..
all my main programs works nice...
all my drivers are working and doing the job enought for now..
(i expect to have great improvement on that department)

people..

Count me in for a permenant vista user

zax

 

[Jeff Gaines]

UAC does registry and file virtualization to allow bad designed
applications
to save data and working with a Standard account. May be you've disable the
UAC ? if yes, enable the UAC.

Yes, UAC is on and I get pop-ups when I try to run some executables.

I see different behaviour from different apps. With Ultraedit (text
editor) although it accepted and apparently recorded the s/w key and
preferences it didn't save them - and no pop-up from Vista. Run it as
administrator and the key/settings are saved fine.

With TheBat! (email) it crashes on starting unless you run as
administrator - when it's fine.

It's bringing a lot of naughty programming habits out of the woodwork