hi there i did not know that, thanks, but will it work on a tr3? and if so, does it have those annoying activation messages that never seem to go away these days in ms betas? i tried office 2007 but it never activated and i had to go back to 2003, which after seeing what they did to office was a relief:)
jigs
I downloaded and installed. You probably have to register and MS will give you a key for your installation. I have not yet tried activate it but you should activate within 14 days, NOT 30 days as XP. GUI is really cool.
I downloaded with Comcast and it took about 2h15’ for DVD iso.
Vista really does look interesting, but i dont want to just run that alone, i’d like to keep my important stuff on the ‘stable’ XP Pro platform…...... so this leads me to the question, how about running vista from my external HD. I’ve never run 2 operating systems before, and would like some advice, as to the best way to do it, and any instabilities it may cause. Thanks
Sidzz
I’ve installed Vista Beta 2 on my VAIO S18GP, on the same hard disk as my current XP; the good news is, it does dual boot. All you have to do is to choose which windows to boot into when you start your computer.
However, due to the fact that my ATI Radeon 9200 does not support directx 9.0, I’m only given Vista Basic as the only appearance choice; which means cool features such as Aero and 3D flip are not made available.
Registering and activating Windows Vista allows you to continue using it until May next year.
Interesting…. do you have to go into the bios to allow choice of booting when you turn on your computer….. and does a TR5MP support direct X 9.0, otherwise it hardly seems worth downloading if all i can use is a ‘Basic’ Version of Vista
Thanks
I’m currently dual booting. Even without my ATI drivers installed, all the cool graphic effects, like the Aero glass effect, max and min effect…
Since I’ll have to reinstall practically everything on this version to use the normal programs i use, I may not have Vista much longer. Its pretty fun to play with though.
read something about the release vista actually requiring hybrid hard drives in the machines, which doesn’t seem to make sense as my TX says it’s vista ready and it doesn’t have a hybrid drive.
[quote author=“japaneseimportscomau”]read something about the release vista actually requiring hybrid hard drives in the machines, which doesn’t seem to make sense as my TX says it’s vista ready and it doesn’t have a hybrid drive.
Not that i know what one is so maybe it does… :D
I read that too, and I’ve seen the Vista Ready stickers before as well…I was sort of wondering the same thing. Maybe for a machine to be Vista certified by the manufacture it must be a hybrid.
I think I read that it was only going to be a requirement for the Ultimate Edition versions of Vista. Also I think it’s only a requirement for Laptop manufacturers. If you just buy a copy of Ultimate Edition it will still install on a normal HDD.
[quote author=“japaneseimportscomau”]read something about the release vista actually requiring hybrid hard drives in the machines, which doesn’t seem to make sense as my TX says it’s vista ready and it doesn’t have a hybrid drive.
Not that i know what one is so maybe it does… :D
I think there’s a little confusion here.
Vista Ultimate is a special version of Vista that essentially ships with everything. So, basically all the professional features plus all the advanced multimedia features.
Vista Premium is a certification. The hybrid HDD requirement is only to get Vista Premium Ready certification. Non-hybrid HDD systems will simply have the Vista Capable name. Previously, there was something simply called Vista Ready but they keep changing the definition.
Basically, Vista Capable now means Vista will run on your system and you get the core Vista experience. You may be able to use some of the advanced features (like Aero Glass) depending on what you have in your system.
Vista Premium’s definition is still a moving target (which is sad) but more or less is the minimum hardware requirements needed to take advantage of nearly all new features. So, you get the core experience, the visual eye-candy, the new instant boot features, etc. There’s also some talk about requiring hardware-based H.264 decoding among other hardware features as a requirement. I like that idea…
