Rob_R

For those running Vista on your notebooks get your modified inf file from www.laptopvideo2go.com so that you can use the latest RC2 release from Nvidia, works great! Well at least on my Dell D820 it did, hope it works for you.

Everything is still running fairly well, networking in general in a domain environment is still rather slow and still get those long delays on login for Vista to find the network. Another plus though is that the sluggishness has totally gone since I installed the latest RC2 Nvidia drivers with the modified inf file from laptopvideo2go.com, now everything is super smooth and quick!! The other day I had to boot into XP to burn a CD and boy how bland it is after running Vista for a few weeks now. Vista is a much better user experience in my books. Can't wait for the final release in November for enterprise users!

Well, all was looking good until just a little while ago something strange happened. As I am using my Vista RC2 as my daily OS on my work notebook, I jump from being logged in to the domain at work and working on the cached account when I'm at home. Jumping between the two has gone reasonably well except for network delays at times as Vista tries to figure out if I'm at work on the LAN or Wireless at home. I turned on my computer just a while ago and rather then logging into my account I received a "Preparing Desktop" message on the login screen. After the HD was very active it finally logged me to the desktop where there were error messages on the screen about not being able to locate the profile, graphically everything looked like XP (Start menu colors, no transparencies etc). I just sat looking at it for a few seconds then shutdown the computer and booted up again, everything was fine after that. Very strange.

Most probably because you didn't have enough free spsace that is required for an upgrade.. Also, if you boot from the DVD you get a greyed out upgrade option, upgrade is only possible when running installer in the OS. As far as my Vista RC2 experience, no real issues other then problems with beta software or drivers. The main issue I notice is that at time Vista takes a long time to log into if you jump between direct domain login or cached login. Either that or the fact that at work I log in to a LAN connection and at home I am wireless, it takes a while for Vista to locate which network connection to choose. At this point I can't even try to connect manually as the system is unresponsive until it decides the connection itself. Cisco VPN Client Beta works great and Symantec Antivirus Corp Beta also works well enough but has it's hiccups. There is some conflict between SAV and Vista as there are times my virus definitions roll back to older dates. I haven't been able to figure out why but I'm guessing Windows Defender may have something to do with it.

Hello Everyone, new to the forum and looking to get some of everyones feedback on my experiences and issues with Vista. I have RC2 Build 5744 installed, although I am dual booting XP I have not used XP since I first installed RC1 Build 5600. Everything I needed to do for my job at work I can do through Vista now. In regards to the excessive paging I can't say I see it often, although at times I see a lot of HD activity it doesn't slow my system down. I'm running Vista on my Dell D820 laptop with 2GB of RAM and the 256MB Nvidia Quadro card. All drivers for all hardware was accounted for since the first install of RC1, I have upgraded twice and can say that everything has been stable although it seems build 5744 is more sluggish then 5728 was. I don't think the drivers that Vista installed for my video card are that optimized which could account for some of the "sluggishness", waiting for some new graphic drivers to test that.