Vista Ultimate RTM

[Robert Robinson]

After a download from MSDN that required many re-starts, I tried
upgrading from RC2 rather than doing a clean install as I know is the
proper procedure. The install screen advises that the upgrade may
require "several hours". I assumed that this referred to installing the
OS on an "Abacus Model I", but it did take 2+ hours on a Dell PowerEdge
1800.
Aside from the snails pace install and the usual multiple cold
re-starts, the install went smoothly. I still wish that Microsoft would
provide a verbose mode so that one would have some idea about the
progress of the install. There are long periods of time during which
nothing appears to be happening.
Vista itself runs reliably as has been true with the recent betas. The
only glitch I encountered was that the install wiped out the display of
the "real administrator" Administrator.
After some limited testing, it was back to Windows Server 2003. Vista is
useless to us because some essential device drivers are unavailable and
one of the required software packages, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version
9 will not run on Vista.

Robbie

 

[John Barnett MVP]

I'm currently attempting to upgrade a copy of XP on Microsoft Virtual PC
2007. It has been chugging along now for the last 10 hours or so and i am
still at the stage where it has 'supposedly' completing the upgrade. Now
that is slow!


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[Paul Smith]

I'm currently attempting to upgrade a copy of XP on Microsoft Virtual PC
2007. It has been chugging along now for the last 10 hours or so and i am
still at the stage where it has 'supposedly' completing the upgrade. Now
that is slow!

I've had Vista typically take about 90 minutes to upgrade XP in virtual
machine. So yes, 10 hours is slow.

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Yeovil, UK.
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[John Barnett MVP]

Paul, the VPC running XP is located on Vista 5744 at present with 512MB RAM
allocated to VPC and 1GB allocated to Vista. The only reason i'm doing an
upgrade is for the upgrade installation screenshots. I have to admit that
i'm puzzled at the length of time it is taking to upgrade.

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[Kerry Brown]

I also did an upgrade from RC2 build 5744 to RTM. I wanted to try the
upgrade to see what happened. I can't find any problems so far. The upgrade
took about 90 minutes on a pretty minimal machine, P4 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 40
GB partition for Vista with about 25 GB free, Office 2007 Beta and
Expression Web beta. I'm going to test it for a few days then try a clean
install and see if there are any differences.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Hi Kerry,

It looks as if my system has gone on a go slow. Nevermind, as i said in my
previous post, i'm only ugrading for the screenshots. I have around 50
percent of the screenshots now so i'll persevere. I might just get the
upgrade installed by the time the 'next' version of Windows hits the
street

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[Colin Barnhorst]

90% of the time has nothing to do with Vista. It is the apps that get moved
out of the way while the OS image is laid in and then the apps get
reinstalled. That is why Custom installations go so much faster than
Upgrades.