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by Anand M.
Original Post: Vista Beta 2 - Atlast!!
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I just installed Vista Beta 2 now. Since I got back from the US, which had been on my list of TODOs, but the download always was having some problems. I just got the whole thing downloaded correctly the day before yesterday. So I spent yesterday installing it. As usual, one of the drivers did not work, that of my network card. Looks like any unsgined driver is going to be a problem. Anyway searching the Internet from my XP got me an alternate XP driver that did work.
The big difference this time was that once I was online, Vista went onto the net and found the drivers for my sound card (SoundMax, drivers for which did not work last time) etc, which was a big problem last time I installed Vista. So now I kind of have everything working ok and can really use Vista as my main home OS.
First impressions - It seems to be very slow compared to XP (as well as a memory hog, though I kind of expected that). I donât know if it is just my imagination, but Internet access also seems to slow down. Also some of my normal programs do not work:
AVG - My home Anti-virus, does not install since it has a compatibility issue. According to Grisoft, Microsoft has fixed this issue, but I am still without an AV on my Vista
Azureus - The Bittorrent client I use. The older version seems to run OK, but the latest build just hangs.
These two and the performance are the two major factors that are stopping me from jumping whole-heartedly into using my Vista install as the default OS at home.
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