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The Good Lots of Memory, my regular usage is just over 4GB, so no swapping with 8GB of real RAM.  Most things work with out any issues.  This is much improved over my experience trying 64 bit in beta. Very fast file transfers, between two my two main machines I got up to 50MB a second.  Drive to drive on the new machine I have ...

  If you don't read Penny Arcade you may have missing this.  It is pretty cool.  I playing around with it a little.  If you don't want to move your senor bar as he suggests, just multiply things  by -1 to flip things around and use the remote instead.  The default Vista Bluetooth drivers work with the Wii ...

Creative finally released drivers for their X-Fi cards just after Christmas installed them today and I now have sound.  Once that was working 3 reboots later I decided to check if there was any new video drivers.  nVidia released some new drivers for Vista on Jan 5th.  I was hoping with them that I would be able to run Vista without ...

Microsoft just released Vista to MSDN yesterday.  Today I did an install on my main PC, the install went smooth and was the quickest install of Vista.  Two issues will keep me from using it Creative has no drivers for my sound card yet and Titan Quest won't install.  The first issue means I can't play music while I work or ...

Stop: 0x0000001a during install, seems like a problem that has crept in since build 5536. 

Things I don't like about Vista, or things where I spent more time then I thought I should figuring them out. Start --> Run is hidden away, the search box is not quite as good Searching a  folder for a file is hard, right clicking on a folder and selecting search gives you a horrible search interface The calendar moved ...

You can type your credentials intl Remote Desktop and have it remember them if you like. Windows + Tab Easy printer install User switching Aero looks pretty Hibernation works when you have over 1GB of memory The little thumbnails when you hover on a task bar button, didn't think it was that good, but I missed it as soon as I was ...

This started as a day of Vista, but now I have been running it for a week, on my laptop and on my desktop.  So far it is working without any major issues.   One thing that is a little annoying is 120dpi support,  I boosted up the dpi to make the screen easier to read 1920x1280 makes things a bit small.   Some application look ...