June 17, 2006
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Vista Beta 2
I finally got a chance to install Windows Vista beta 2 on a spare machine. I tried it on a virtual machine but it was just way too slow.
Vista machine specs:
Shuttle SS56L, P4 2.8 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, GeForce 6600GT
As of now I’m writing this with Vista on IE 7.0.5384.4 and I already ran into rendering problems on the Xanga front page, Xanga Dash crashed it, using spell check on the editor crashed it. So yes I am rewriting what I lost.
Couple of minutes into playing around with the OS I already experience the enhanced security. When I tried to launch a program or install a program it prompts me for administrative access to allow the program to run. Also when I want to paste something into this post it asks me “Do you want to allow this website to access your clipboard?”. Now I haven’t used IE 7 until now so I’m not sure if it’s an IE 7 feature or Vista feature. I had some services that stopped working and some theme rendering issues but it’s not that bad.
The Aero glass theme is pretty cool and the effects are fun to watch but I have to admit that Apple already have them. Vista also have a ‘Windows sidebar’ that look like the Yahoo! widgets and the Apple widgets except they called them ‘Gadgets’. You can add these gadgets in like a bigger clock, CPU meter, currency converter, etc. Although I haven’t find any of them useful yet except for the CPU meter to keep an eye on the system usage. Right now it keeps hovering around 4 – 10% as I’m typing and it’s using 47% of my memory.
My goal is to use Vista for my everyday operation and get a feel for it until I had enough of it. Although I’m not going to try to play any games on it I’ll just use it for work and stuff. I’m pretty excited about it and hopefully the final product will launch as planned. I’ll try to continue to share my Vista experience with you, now I’m going to hit submit and cross my fingers.
-=UPDATE=-
I setup a VPN connection and everytime I connect to it the machine crashes
. I guess I won’t be using it for work.
Comments (10)
My pastor installed it too and it looked pretty spiffy. New games, like chess and mahjong, right? XP I also appreciate that they finally allowed us at least some customization of the GUI – colour sliders. If only they would include something like WindowBlinds…
Vista better make good use of all the memory it takes up ;o
is xanga using any ajax?
all things M$ seems to be overly bloated programs for what it does… -_- I believe i am in the process of switching to mac ^_^
Man, I hope that Vista’s out soon and without stupid glitches. I’m waiting (with my crap computer) ’til it comes out before I get a new computer.
It seems pretty good so far. But 16GBs of space… woah.
From what I know, it uses 700MBs RAM when just sitting there on a 2GB RAM computer. And you can customize the tint and transparency of Aero if you want.
u have to try this!!!!!! it’s called the ‘mind reader’ its
> so0o0o0o0o0o freaky. if you send this to ten
> people and then press shift+F1 your crush’s Name ill pop up in big
> letters. I swear it works!!!!!!! now think
> really hard of your Crush’s name…
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> STOP!!!!!!!
> your crush’s name has just been
> heard by the
> COSMIC CHEERLEADER!!!!!!!!
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> now send this to ten people right
> away and then press
> shift+F1
> and the
> name
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> NOW SEND SEND SEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> Don’t Send Back to Me
-LoVeLy DeBBie-
I’m doing it for the first time too
this is so representative of some, real, real life…
and yet, some what…wishy, washy … perhaps.
Thank you for all of your hard works…
I’m not using Vista itself, but I’m using this…
“BricoPack Vista Inspirat is a free pack which modifies Windows XP system files in order to change its appearance and make it look like Windows Vista (the next operating system made by Microsoft)”
and I’m using IE 7.0.5450.5, and
“Do you want to allow this website to access your clipboard” pops up out of nowhere on some sites. Sometimes, I can’t get rid of it whether I click yes or no.
So….I don’t know if it’s this Vista pack or IE 7. Anyone else know yet? I haven’t found anything else about it.
hey whats up my name is alexa and im tryin to talk to new people on my xanga so if u would comment me back please
~Alexa