Vista Beta 2 Goes Public Today

Exsomnis said:
a.) I disabled user account control because I got tired of being asked if Windows was allowed to sneeze every five seconds and not even letting me create shortcuts in any directories on my main disk drive, but now the security centre is constantly asking me to sort it out and planting that little shield icon in my system tray. Any way to stop this? I am currently just "hiding" the icon, but I don't really like to use that feature.
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Check this out:
http://www.chris123nt.com/guides/5384/
 
Blackhorse said:
My bad sorry.
They seem to have brought sound to my machine so just assumed they were what was needed! :confused:
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Good good! As I said, they're definitely worth a go. But it seems a lot of people are having no joy with them. Creative really need to start to get their act together soon.
 
Zap said:
if you're not wanting to keep vista then i think a fixboot/fixmbr should sort it out. Sorry, haven't read into this ready as much as i should so sorry if i'm getting the wrong end of the stick ;)
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As far as I can read it, this is all that would be needed. If you don't want Vista at all, boot of the XP disc, goto recovery console, run a fixboot/fixmbr, and the Vista Bootloader should no longer be there.
 
Bony Maloney said:
I would like to dual boot with Vista, but I would like to remove these 2 other boot options and start a fresh. If that is no good then I may have to redownload the OS
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A fixboot/fixmbr would remove the vista bootloader from the boot partition and replace it with the XP bootloader. So, in essence, you'd be back where you started.
 
Bony Maloney said:
1) Go to command prompt and navigate to your DVD Drive that has the Vista DVD on it, and then to the Boot folder on the DVD.

2) Type in bootsect /nt52 C: <- where C is your XP partition.

3) Reboot, reformat the Vista partition

How do I access the recovery console with the Vista dvd in the drive to do the above. Thanks
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As far as I can find, that method doesn't require the recovery console. Just use the command prompt (cmd) in XP.
 
Bony Maloney said:
How do I navigate my command prompt <----I haven't done this before can you tell?
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:p

Don't worry. Start | Run. Type cmd (alternatively, locate Command Prompt in the Start Menu and click it).

Type "D:" without quotes and hit enter (where D: is the name of the drive your Vista DVD is in)

Type "cd boot" without quotes and hit enter.

It should say D:\boot now.

Type "bootsect /nt52 C:" without quotes, as per the instructions.

Reboot, and you should get the XP bootloader menu, or it should boot straight into XP if you only had XP in it.
 
Jimbo said:
Does anyone know how you map drives? so I can access my networked drives.
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Same as XP. If in 'Computer', hit Alt and the Classic Menus will appear. Tools | Map Network Drive, as usual.

And, of course, net use X: \\computer\share in command prompt.
 
Bony Maloney said:
Update, tried to install again with no joy, I noticed on the loader page that the previous Vista attempts where still there on the selection list??
I can sort it so as to boot straight into XP Pro but I am miffed as to why I cannot get Vista to install. Is it worth trying another download and burn just in case there is a problem with the Dvd.
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What's the problem with it? What happens (or maybe what doesn't happen)?
 
It might not like installing to USB HDDs. Have you got a spare IDE/SATA drive, or can you make a spare 15Gb partition on an existing drive?
 
Yep - 512Mb works fine on my desktop. 512Mb on my laptop was a bit painful though - not sure why.

MS also recommends 1Gb minimum for the 'Vista Premium Experience' - i.e. Aero and the like.

I think the strict 'won't-install-without-this-amount' minimum is actually 256Mb. But I don't think it'd be a lot of fun, especially with Beta 2.
 
crashuk said:
what card do you have?
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ATi Radeon X600 128Mb in my laptop.
ATi Radeon 9600 128Mb in my desktop.
ATi Radeon 9600XT 256Mb in a friend's desktop.

I notice you have an nVidia card. nVidia haven't really kept on top of the driver situation as well as ATi have, unfortunately.
 
Jimbo said:
I'ts aout as stable as a 3 legged chair on my laptop. The problem im sure is with either graphic or network drivers. How can i get it to install the drivers I want instead of its own? it installs my adeon drivers but its using its own. My Belkin card is the same, it installs some other drivers for that too.
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3 legged stools are very stable... :p

It was about the same on my laptop when I installed it. I shoved another 1Gb RAM in there to boost it to 1.5Gb in total. It helped a lot, but my desktop is still far more stable.

Installing the Catalyst drivers from ATi should replace the default MS driver... but I haven't personally noticed any difference between the two. You can still pick your own drivers to install in Device Manager, as in previous versions of Windows.
 
stuartbat said:
right heres my problem got vista 32bit all setup and working lovely but thee problem is i have a geforce 6800gt galaxy glacier (agp) card installed nvidia drivers went to play css and battlefield 2 but holy crap how much cant play any games due to shearing could only play guild wars in windowed mode ran smoth then but as soon as i go full screen it all goes haywire any 1 have any ideas
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Holy long sentence! Took a bit of deciphering, that one. :p

It's a Beta OS, and nVidia's Beta Drivers aren't exactly top drawer either. There's almost certainly nothing you can do about it.
 
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