Has anyone out there tried the Beta yet?
I thought I would be clever and try it out on a spare 120 gig drive I have, and so I popped into BIOS and changed the hard drive priority so that the blank 120 gig drive would be the first hard drive, but somehow Vista managed to "do" something to my RAID 0 Windows XP array and stuff it up.
My own main thoughts on the couple of days I ran it were:-
1) It seemed to make my computer run at half the speed, I know.... it's just a beta still!
2) Antivirus is not a strong point, again, I know there aren't too many Vista orientated virus out there yet, but a bit like x64 it there seems to be about the same number of Vista compatible AV programs available. Kaspersky Beta works fine for anyone fanciying a dabble.
3) Far Cry worked fine, although I didn't bother benchmarking it for a comparison.
4) Normal everyday apps seemed fine, IE7, MSN, ICQ, Outlook.
5) The only thing I didn't much like was the START, SHUTDOWN bit. When you do it, as we're all perfectly trained from XP to do, it says "Shutting down in 30 seconds" and gives you a chance to cancel the shutdown. Now if I press "Shutdown" that's what I want it to do there and then! Also, for some reason, RESTART shut the computer down, but failed to bring it back up again, it needed a hard reset before it would boot.
All in all I am glad I tried it and I will be looking forward to the final release candidate next year, and would be very interested to hear anyone elses experience if you have tried it.
Richard P


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