Successful burn, Successful install, Nice OS

how did you turn off the aero glass feature?

I like to know how so I can turn it in my virtualized version. it is taking
too much performance hit.

 

Well done I am proud of you, safe beta testing.

Mozilla Firefox will install no problem v1.5x is what you need.
Adblock & NoScript make is pretty bulletproof. I did not like IE 7
either I ditched it along with UAC which was a major pain in the bum,

Get as cheap 128MB card, I use a very ancient Aopen NV 5500 card,
works fine, cost £15-00

Jonah

 

Get an NVIDIA FX5200 or FX5500 (they're very cheap) and you can have Aero
Glass. They're less than $50 or $40 U.S.

 

I used the directions posted here by Andre to use Nero Express to burn the
iso file to a DVD. I did have a problem with the DVD that was packaged with
my new DVD drive, but when I used a HP brand DVD +R 8x it worked fine.

I used the Vista boot disk to delete the partitions on an old hard drive
(Western Digital 136AA 13601.1MB) and created one new partition and
formatted it as NTFS, and did a clean install. My main home drive is
physically in the computer, but I have disconnected the data ribbon from it,
so that Vista can't somehow reach out and corrupt it.

It took about 20 minutes for "Copying Windows files", about 20 minutes for
"Expanding files", about 5 minutes for "Installing features" and Installing
Updates, maybe 5 minutes to reboot, and 5 minutes for Completeing
installation.

Then after another reboot, it came up and ran. I find the performance to be
acceptable, even though my overall performance rating is 1.0. I have 512MB
of memory and a 1.5 gig processor. My display driver is running on the
Vista generic drivers. I'm pretty sure Nvidia doesn't have Vista drivers
for a board as old as mine (AGP 1) although I havn't checked.

Vista has built in drivers for my printer (HP Deskjet 890C) and I printed a
test page after connecting it.

Later this afternoon I got the Microsoft Windows Vista DVD in the mail, but
as I said I did the install from the iso file I downloaded and burned to a
DVD.

I am using Windows mail to read the Vista general newsgroup, and to send
this post.

I also used IE7 to browse the internet. It works pretty well. I am not
nearly as offended by the changes from Windows 2000 which I use and Windows
XP which my wife uses, as I expected to be after all the complaints that I
have seen posted here.

I don't like Windows Explorer as well, but I certainly find it usable.

I can't see the Aero glass feature, because of my old Video card, so I don't
know about that, but overall, my first impression is good.

 

Control Panel, Personalisation. Click on Visual Appearance then the
"Open Classic Properties". Select Windows Vista Basic from there.