Vista Beta 2 Goes Public Today

McDaniel · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:05

PinkPig said:
I used this briefly last night. Biggest issues for me are that Real player doesn't work properly, I can't get the touchpad driver to recognise both buttons as a middle mouse click - they're enough to stop me from wanting to use it now, but I'm quite impressed for a beta. Everything (down to Wireless, volume buttons, sound) worked pretty much perfectly on my laptop without any special driver installation, it's more than Windows XP manages!

Realplayer? why would you want it

Neolink · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:07

agreed, horrible bloatware. google for the real player alternative

csmager · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:11

split said:
Maybe Creative are working on some for this build.

They're for a much older build - 5321. This is 5384.4, so those drivers have been around a while.

Based on peoples experiences with those drivers, 32-bit's hit 'n' miss, and 64-bit doesn't work at all.

Datamonkey · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:16

OK problem Time!! lol

Right,

Having installed office 2007 beta, im trying to put my pst and such back in its usual place.

ie

c:\documents and settings\user name\local files\

problem is, even with my account being a full admin, i have also tried the admin account.

Access to these folders is denied. I have tried taking owner ship and such, but no go.

So no email for me then.

Security is a bit too tight on this thing i think.

Any suggestions before i blow it away for now and go back to xp pro?

cheers

csmager · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:17

Datamonkey said:
Having installed office 2007 beta, im trying to put my pst and such back in its usual place.

I'd abandon putting it back. Create a new PST, and just import all your emails etc from the old PST.

Should work.

Datamonkey · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:26

could do, but the problem is i like to have access to the documents and settings folder anyways.

I dont like being locked out of stuff when i am supposedly and "Administrator" on my own machine lol

if you know what i mean

split · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:26

csmager said:
They're for a much older build - 5321. This is 5384.4, so those drivers have been around a while.
Based on peoples experiences with those drivers, 32-bit's hit 'n' miss, and 64-bit doesn't work at all.

It's gonna be hit and miss tho as it's beta.
People find work rounds, but this is a day old.

Take here as an example.

Creative SoundBlaster Live! Series. Works with special drivers found here http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=20 (32 Bit) (does not work with gamer mode, nothing gets installed) Instead, download the WinXP driver, run it (it will say and error message, don't press OK yet, go to (for example C:\Users\a\AppData\Local\Temp\CRF000\Audio\Drivers\WIN2K_XP) and in device manager click "update driver" and use that path. Or you can extract the driver from the package. Download LiveDrvUni-Pack(ENG).exe (24.451.404 bytes) and extract the /audio/drivers folder and run CTZAPXX.exe to install the drivers. Now digital output trough the creative digital din plug works with 5.1 speaker setting with Creative Inspire 5.1.

Very hit and miss way of installing a driver, and you might have to find a similar work round.

.Griff. · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:28

Another Audigy 2 owner stuck with no sound here

csmager · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:29

Datamonkey said:
I dont like being locked out of stuff when i am supposedly and "Administrator" on my own machine lol if you know what i mean

Have you disabled UAP? It that doesn't solve it, I'm out of ideas. Google might throw up some more.

Neolink · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:35

hmm i cant get it to install. throws up error: 0xc00000e9 , complaining about something to do with a removable drive

tried 3 diff dvd drives and they all do the same

MG42Maniac · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:36

I'm wondering if I can be bothered to install this as it seems rather limited at the moment. Firstly I'd have to install my old IDE drive and I can't really be bothered to open up the case and try and fit it around my X1900XT. Also I have an X-Fi soundcard and I don't like the idea of having no sound and reports of it messing up XP is even worse.

Trifid · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:40

MG42Maniac said:
I'm wondering if I can be bothered to install this as it seems rather limited at the moment. Firstly I'd have to install my old IDE drive and I can't really be bothered to open up the case and try and fit it around my X1900XT. Also I have an X-Fi soundcard and I don't like the idea of having no sound and reports of it messing up XP is even worse.

It will not mess up XP if it is on a different drive/partition. I am just thinking if I want to format my E partition or not...

Datamonkey · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:42

csmager said:
Have you disabled UAP? It that doesn't solve it, I'm out of ideas. Google might throw up some more.

The death of uap was the first thing i did

lol

I hate having the pc holding my hand lol

If i didnt really want to do something i wouldnt have clicked it lol.

Another annoying one is when you quit programs, are you sure you want to quit? "yes" next promopt are your really sure? ffs if i didnt want to quit i wouldnt have clicked quit in the first place lol.

Love the media cent. though, sat watching south park streaming from comedy central at the moment.

Trifid · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:46

Did I read that right, it asks you if you are sure twice??! Can that be turned off?

I am wanting the media functions though for the 360.

Tom|Nbk · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:46

Neolink said:
agreed, horrible bloatware. google for the real player alternative

exactly what i use can't beat it!

Datamonkey · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:59

Trifid said:
Did I read that right, it asks you if you are sure twice??! Can that be turned off?

I am wanting the media functions though for the 360.

nahh mate i was being sarcastic lol.

i have other proggys that do that though, but you can turn it off lol

Energize · 9 Jun 2006 at 13:59

csmager said:
Creative Soundcards are a problem in Vista, and have been for a good long while. Just take a look round various forums - it's nothing new. The latest drivers they produced are hit 'n' miss on 32-bit, and if they work you get stereo only. If you've got x64 installed, forget it.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with MS, it's just laziness on the part of Creative.

Ive never had a driver problem with 32-bit using creative cards.

csmager · 9 Jun 2006 at 14:02

Energize said:
Ive never had a driver problem with 32-bit using creative cards.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you were just complaining that your Audigy 4 doesn't work. Either you're using 32-bit and it plain doesn't work, or you're using 64-bit, in which case you won't've tried 32-bit.... unless you managed to download and install both versions.

And you can't really say you've 'never' had a problem when you've only installed 1 build on 1 pc.

Trifid · 9 Jun 2006 at 14:02

Datamonkey said:
nahh mate i was being sarcastic lol.

i have other proggys that do that though, but you can turn it off lol

Ahh good. I don't mind it asking once.

KASM · 9 Jun 2006 at 14:04

Loving it! apart from some annoyance trying to set up network with an xp machine and one driver issue thats now fixed I've got to say Vista is very nice, everything just looks better for some reason, fonts are nicer web pages seem to look better even colours look more vivid. With UAP disabled its a lot less annoying trying out new features.

The games are quite cool as well. still haven't tried half of what I want to but at the moment I'm more than impressed.

post edit: anyone know of a decent alternative to Daemon tools which just doesn't want to install?