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  1. I ran vista Beta 1, not good, beta 2, Rc1, rc 2 OK, im running RTM and its quite polished, i like vista, but its price tag its too high, anyway when my evaluation copy expires on May 31, i will then decide if i buy it or keep XP.

    Why fight it. XP has been out for over 5 years now and MS has stopped support for Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows XP Service Pack 1. Check out the official MS policy:

    http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&x=14&y=12. I feel XP slowly slipping into the grave.  :icon_salut:

    So come and jump on the band wagon, and let's all enjoy a Coke and a smile.  :grin:  :uglystupid2:

  2. The most hard part for me is finding a good powersupply i like to get aleast a 500, but i found this Thermaltake TR2 W0070RUC ATX 430W Power Supply 115/230 V, but i think i need to go bigger. So what do you suggest?

    I used to use Antec until one crapped out a day after the warranty expired. I bought a BFG Tech 650W, which has a Lifetime warranty!

    http://www.bfgtech.com/power_supply_650W.html

    Or here is the 800W one http://www.bfgtech.com/power_supply_800W.html

    Congrats on your marriage.

  3. oh does anyone know how to make the desktop icons smaller....i mean a lot smaller..they are huge...the only setting i can find for this is the advanced setting in display properties & i have it all the way down to 16 as far as it will go & it barely made any difference....

    Have you tried this:

    Right click on desktop, click View, then choose Classic Icons. There about the same size as the small ones in XP

  4. Must be something like those old war movies when they show the radar screen and the light revolves around the screen showing the antenna position.

    its exactly like that, very bright and very annoying. and you can't turn it off

    I have the WPN802 Access Point http://www.netgear.com/Products/WirelessAccessPoints/WirelessAccessPoints/WPN802.aspx  which is the same chassis. The lights don't turn off, but it came with a plastic cover that you can put over the lights if you want to block them out. Using my laptop with a WG511T Wireless PC Card http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapters/SuperGWirelessAdapters/WG511T.aspx  I get full 108 Mbps coverage throughout the house. I can even get coverage at a neighbors house which is about 200 feet away.

  5. i ment the way it caches programs in memory after they are closed. windows never use to cache programs this way before.

    Vista does use caching for memory. It unloads processes after they have run and when data for user processes is reloading into memory. With XP there was no I/O prioritization, which lead to contention for memory therefore causing lag and poor read/write performance. In Vista it implements high priority I/O and low priority I/O queues, leading to better performance. Windows SuperFetch is a key feature in memory optimization. Basically, it just manages memory better than XP.

  6. i haven't seen it myself but i have heard that in spite of the half gig of ram it munches at startup the boot and shutdown times are very quick. true? false?

    Yes, it does boot faster than XP, because Vista doesn't use Boot.ini, Ntldr and Ntdetect.com.

    Here is a screen shot of Aero using the Windows Key + Tab key.

  7. I have Vista Ultimate and I'm pretty happy with it so far. One thing that is noticeable is that a lot of manufacturers still have yet to put out some drivers for Vista, ie. Creative! But, for the most part everything on my PC is up and running.

    Things that I like:

    Windows Photo Gallery - here you can create a slideshow of your pictures, make a quick fix, email, burn to disc or make a movie. You can then use that movie as you desktop background, which will loop constantly (if you like that sort of thing  :undecided:  ) via the Windows DreamScene.

    Windows Movie Maker - Altough this was in XP, it is vastly improved in Vista with more features. I especially like the fact that you can burn your movies and slideshows to a DVD and create your own Menu's with the built in templates. Also, useful is that you can burn it in NTSC or PAL, and in 16:9 format.

    Things I don't like:

    Well the only thing that bothers me right now is the UAC - User Account Control. Basically, this means that if you try to run some apps or change a setting, a pop-up will show asking your permission to continue. This stops unauthorized changes being made and you are then giving it Admin rights to continue. Somtimes, these can be annoying if you are doing alot of tweaking, but it in theory should stop malware, trojans and viruses from wreaking havoc. It can be disabled, but you should probably leave it be.

    I will take some screen shots and post as soon as I can.  [nerdly]. Any requests ?

  8. Here is the workaround.. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932  The legality of it.. questionable.. However, just remember once you "upgrade" your XP licence will be voided.. meaning that you can not use it and expect to get system updates as it will not be genuine.

    Hey, that's good to know. I, in fact used Win 2000 (as you don't have to activate it) on a separate hard drive to install Vista. I use removable hard drive drawers so I can swap between XP and Vista.

  9. ::::::::::.. testmy.net test results ..::::::::::

    Download Connection is:: 20238 Kbps about 20.24 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)

    Download Speed is:: 2470 kB/s

    Upload Connection is:: 721 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)

    Upload Speed is:: 88 kB/s

    Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1)

    Test Time:: 2006/12/08 - 12:47am

    D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-OF13GUZ5C

    U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-94DCUP3QM

    User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)

    This one I'm using Vista :

    :::.. Download Stats ..:::

    Download Connection is:: 23791 Kbps about 23.8 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)

    Download Speed is:: 2904 kB/s

    Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1)

    Test Time:: 2007/01/17 - 12:58am

    Bottom Line:: 415X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.35 sec

    Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 4.187 seconds to complete

    Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 328.44 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)

    D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-OLSEI19JA

    User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) [!]

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