RC1 | The Coffeehouse

jamie
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couldnt resist the title Smiley

- thanks rickH for posting the blog info - *i think you scooped all news outlets except maryjo - and thanks MS for releasing this - again on a friday - and making everyones long weeked!

ok ... so first sightings of any RC1 screenshots - or changes - POSTEM here! ...1030 remaining...

edit: from news.com

"Work on Vista is not done, Allchin wrote. "We'll keep plugging away on application compatibility, as well as fit and finish," he wrote. He noted that software makers should use the RC1 release to certify their applications. "

= probably not a lot of change from pre-rc1 ( have hope! Wink

jamie
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screen shots

looks pretty much the same as pre-rc1
( hope for rc 2 then ha;)

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Installed it, it's running good, nice and fast. Everything seems to work as it should at first glance (no major bugs outright).

Charles
Welcome Change

I's a great build. There were some driver bugs in pre-RC1 (I found one of them, even...). I've not encountered any major issues yet. Quite impressed with performance and Aero.
C

andokai

The only bug I've encountered is quite minor. I first encountered it in 5536 and it's still there. If you put the recycle bin in the quick launch tray it no longer updates to reflect its state. Anything else is driver related.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Charles wrote:
I's a great build. There were some driver bugs in pre-RC1 (I found one of them, even...). I've not encountered any major issues yet. Quite impressed with performance and Aero.

I still have some x64 issues I need to test (couldn't do that for 5536 because that had no x64 build) but that will have to wait until monday Sad

matt_campbell

andokai wrote:
The only bug I've encountered is quite minor. I first encountered it in 5536 and it's still there. If you put the recycle bin in the quick launch tray it no longer updates to reflect its state. Anything else is driver related.

Hmmm..

Full

Empty

andokai

Hmmm is right. Does it change when you right click on it and pick empty?

It used to work for me but not in 5536 and RC1.

jamie
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still trying to fix video... but ill say this: vista is FAST

blows away xp - even faster than server 2003

matt_campbell

andokai wrote:

Hmmm is right. Does it change when you right click on it and pick empty?

It used to work for me but not in 5536 and RC1.

Yes it does change after I empty on right click, the build I'm using is 5536 the one you mentioned. Mistake Maybe?

andokai

No mistake that was the first build I noticed it on. And although I'm not sure what I'm supposed to disclose it was bugged and closed as won't fix so it's obviously reproducable. Are you in x64 or x86? Mine is x86.

matt_campbell

andokai wrote:
No mistake that was the first build I noticed it on. And although I'm not sure what I'm supposed to disclose it was bugged and closed as won't fix so it's obviously reproducable. Are you in x64 or x86? Mine is x86.

I'm also using x86.

jamie
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video fixed... no aero - but monitors all work again.

this has been like this since windows 3

please please add a "yes to all" or "no to all"
*when you load 2000 fonts - and vista has 300 - thats 300 replace it clicks

off topic *where do you go to change the theme in office 12? it opened with the grey theme - and i want the light blue one?

Tom Servo
W-hat?

The only thing keeping me from running this as main operating system is the frickin' annoying driver signing enforcement in x64.

mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

jamie wrote:
please please add a "yes to all" or "no to all"
*when you load 2000 fonts - and vista has 300 - thats 300 replace it clicks

Well, why exactly are you loading 2000 fonts lol :O

jamie wrote:

off topic *where do you go to change the theme in office 12? it opened with the grey theme - and i want the light blue one?

Office Orb > options > Personalize > "Color Scheme"

P.S, why the heck is No smiley formatting checked by default everytime I post in this thread. Who set no smileys Mad

jamie
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thanks

*weird place for that button - i looked everywhere for customise or tools or prefrences... youd think it would be in the main list - Word Options

* the drive in vista is going nuts - is it indexing? can i turn it off?

LaBomba
Summer

jamie wrote:
still trying to fix video... but ill say this: vista is FAST

blows away xp - even faster than server 2003

Yeah, must agree.

Has a come a long way since 5384, Vista totally kills XP and is right up there with Server 2003.

I have no ~~problems~~ qualms running this as my main OS right now Smiley

jamie
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i got aero going (on 2 monitors only though)

nice. neat effects

Tom Servo
W-hat?

What graphics card do you have? I was using Vista on a dual screen setup just fine earlier.

jamie
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well that was fun for half an hour - but cant work without left monitor - so goodbye aero

i liked the way the windows opened and closed in aero - but didnt really like the way they looked (blurry transparency stuff)

also youd think the startbar would have been different in aero - its the same

(*i really hate the floating 1 icon at top for all start menu items - the list - it needs easy to recognise icons for computer, network etc)

apart from that - so far so good

little thing is in folder views - the new highlighted bar across to next row of files - this makes it very hard to find white space - when selecting files - or pasting files. many times i have to scroll way over - just to get to the white space to paste or select. perhaps make the highlight end at the last letter of the filename - not go right across

Tom Servo
W-hat?

Aero requires DirectX 9 capable cards, if my memory serves me correctly, the Rage 128 doesn't do DX9.

BenZillaTheSecond

Oh wow - I just noticed something awesome Big Smile

The mini live window preview thing will pickup changes in games so you get a tiny little screen showing off a game Big Smile

Looks class.

Tom Servo
W-hat?

BenZillaTheSecond wrote:
Oh wow - I just noticed something awesome The mini live window preview thing will pickup changes in games so you get a tiny little screen showing off a game Looks class.

Speaking about it, tried playing games in windowed mode? How bad is the performance drop since two Direct3D applications are running (DWM and the game) and surfaces all being buffered back and forth until they go onto screen?

BenZillaTheSecond

I am probably seeing 90% - 95% of the performance of XP.

I.E. I did not really notice the drop at all.

brian.shapiro
things go on as always

I've been using this wallpaper for my pre-RC1 installation, it looks great with the aero theme:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38836207/

(the thumbnail there doesn't really show the wallpaper well)

i wish Microsoft would include more abstract wallpaper like this with the Vista distribution, there are a few good ones on deviantart (though most there aren't worth much)