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Snowthrower

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Re: Windows Vista Beta 2
« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2006, 09:02:58 pm »
If you dont want to worry about messing up partitions, you could always use Daemon-Tools.
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Re: Windows Vista Beta 2
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2006, 10:47:14 am »
Snowthrower, when are you gonna try Vista?
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« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2006, 01:34:45 pm »
What version you going to buy? I'm buying the Ultimate version of Vista.
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Re: Windows Vista Beta 2
« Reply #18 on: June 20, 2006, 02:54:28 pm »
Quote from: Dan (aka Snowthrower) on June 19, 2006, 09:02:58 pm
If you dont want to worry about messing up partitions, you could always use Daemon-Tools.
I am just going to use PartionMagic.
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« Reply #19 on: June 23, 2006, 09:10:40 pm »
When i get the beta by mail, im installing it on my second drive on an empty partition and will physicaly unplug my primary drive while it installs. i dont want to have to completely reinstall windows when i get the final retail version. ( you cant upgrade from teh beta version to the full version, and that means reinstalling *all* your programs)
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Re: Windows Vista Beta 2
« Reply #20 on: June 25, 2006, 06:02:33 am »
Quote from: The All Seeing Eye on June 23, 2006, 09:10:40 pm
you cant upgrade from teh beta version to the full version, and that means reinstalling *all* your programs

Where did you get that info?
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carterhawk

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« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2006, 12:13:50 am »
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx
Upgrade limitations
You may not be able to upgrade your installation of Windows Vista Beta 2 (or RC1) to the final, commercially available edition of Windows Vista. To upgrade you will need to acquire the final edition of Windows Vista and you may have to do a clean installation.


Your basicaly taking a big risk in upgrading an existing XP install, especialy if you have a lot of programs installed.


Oh, and i installed the beta today. Sadly my video card keeps craping out with a Code 43 error. no Aero, no 3D, etc. It still looks nice though, and i can get the older XP drivers to load up, i havent tried any DX9 games with the XP drivers yet, but perhaps soon.
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Alain2k5

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« Reply #22 on: July 06, 2006, 07:41:17 am »
As RandomDude16 said, Windows Vista is pretty fast. I used 32bit, it goes a little faster that XP. I had to delete it to make space for stuff.
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Re: Windows Vista Beta 2
« Reply #23 on: July 06, 2006, 07:42:35 am »
It's definitely going to be replacing XP on my box when it comes out and I havn't got around to trying the 32-bit one yet.
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Alain2k5

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« Reply #24 on: July 06, 2006, 07:52:45 am »
Same over here
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« Reply #25 on: July 06, 2006, 07:54:05 am »
Although I had 1.5GB of RAM, maybe that did the speed trick.
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