Well Vista did something surprising

[Rick Hallman]

Well I installed and activated Vista on an old computer with minimal specs.
(Abit KT7A-Raid, Athlon 1400, Soundblaster Live 5.1, D-Link NIC, ATI Rage
Fury Pro AGP, 40 GB HD, 512 MB Ram). It didn't run very well and it didn't
recognize the old ATI video card so it ran as a generic video card. I got
tired of the hang ups so I slapped together another motherboard combo from
some spare parts and tried it again. I figured that I would have to do a
clean install since all the hardware changed (Soyo KT600, Athlon XP 1900+,
512 MB DDR 2100, Nvidia FX 5200, Onboard sound, Onboard NIC). I didn't have
anything to lose so I let the original installed OS on the 40 GB HD try to
boot up the new setup. Well surprise, surprise - Vista accepted the new
configuration and changed all of the drivers to reflect what it was now
running on. Vista probably took 10 to 15 minutes to download and install
all of the drivers and I had to ignore a premature reboot notice until it
installed all the other devices. After I did reboot the setup, I received
an activation notice that only 3 days were left to activate Vista. So I
clicked the activate button and was soon legal again. (2 lives used - 8
left)

 

[Andyistic]

Did you also notice that Aero-Glass now works with Flip-3D?

-- Andy

 

[John Jay Smith]

So its suprising that it did something good?

 

[Rick Hallman]

Yes, I have transparent effects now and screens fade out and in. The main
benefit is that it doesn't hang up several times during each use.