ed
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Buggy. No, not really. All the drivers I needed installed fine and didn't blue screen on me or anything like people have been whininag on about.
Slow. Not really either. It's pretty quick. Seems to boot nice and fast.
Pain in the arse to install. No way. Installed fine, first attempt. I just left it to do it's thing and about 40 mins later it was done - takes quite a while to install, but it is a huge piece of software. It had all of the drivers I needed too which were installed automatically. The only missing drivers were for my soundcard (confused it because I have two cards) and my TV card.
Copy of other O/S's. Who cares. It has some nice features and I don't care where they came from.
Only bad points are I had to get a silent cooler for my GPU because the original one was too loud and it's on all the time now. Been running for 24 hours now and everything is great. Ran Windows Update and the only updates it needed were for Office 
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Doug
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Im in the same boat. I heard horror stories but not had any problems with it....
Just make sure you done install Nero or Daemon tools
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Russ
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i couldnt install nero when i had it, when i finally got a working version my rc1 key had expired
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Doug
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If you get a proper copy of it with a proper product key then you should have no problems....
Apart from Nero, that and daemon tools WILL NOT work
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ed
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Power ISO works fine if thats any help. It's nice to have genuine software again with full suport too 
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ed
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One thing, does anyone know how to disable user account control? I'm talking about the box that comes up asking for permision to install stuff onto your PC. I would have thought it was in accounts but it isn't. I'm set as administrator, but it still asks me if I really want to do anything technical at all
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Doug
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Let me know when you find out as its anoying me aswell lol
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
One thing, does anyone know how to disable user account control? I'm talking about the box that comes up asking for permision to install stuff onto your PC. I would have thought it was in accounts but it isn't. I'm set as administrator, but it still asks me if I really want to do anything technical at all
Start > in the run box type MSCONFIG <enter>
Click on the Tools tab. Scroll down till you find "Disable UAC"
Click launch and reboot your pc 
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ed
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That pissed off Windows Defender Sorted the problem out though - cheers.
Gonna put on my flame proof suit on now. I don't really like IE7. I prefer Firefox 
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Steve
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thats because you are a l33t h4x0r
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ed
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I like being able to put my bookmarks along that little bar below the url bar. Not sure of you can do that in 7, haven't figured it out yet if you can
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topshot_2k
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Firefox 
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ed
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topshot_2k
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each to their own
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ed
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Sometimes I use Ubuntu too
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ed
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Hmm, it got a little annoyed at me using XP drivers for my sound card Dunno what it's beefing about though, all works fine
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Russ
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i want a new pc, something silly, like a couple of grands worth, including another 20" w/s monitor
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topshot_2k
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22" if your getting widescreen
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jamesw
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ive got latest version of nero installed and it wrks fine
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andy1868
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had no problems with nero, works a damnsite faster than windows for burning cds
i honestly don't understand the general grumbling about it tbh
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ed
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It's new. It's Microsoft. People also like complaining about things they know nothing what so ever about. One guy said it was not secure to me because somone 'cracked' the beta version 3 days after it coming out. A that news is over a year old and B that doesn't really effect anyone because it was the beta version, and all he did was figure out an algorithm to make serial numbers, which is hardly ground breaking stuff Having Vista is like owning a Fiat 
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug
If you get a proper copy of it with a proper product key then you should have no problems....
Apart from Nero, that and daemon tools WILL NOT work
Whats the issue with Daemon Tools? I installed it and its working fine? There is a Vista version on their website
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Bart
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i dont think theres ever been much doubt in what youve said above Ed, but it still isnt FULLY supported, and not every hardware manufacture supports it.
I ahve Vista at home, but im reluctant to install it because the last time i checked all the creative drivers were beta drivers, EAX doesnt work in games with creative/vista, netgear hasnt released SC101 vista drivers and are not sure when they will, theres still a long way to go before i can personally use it every day and be happy with it.
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Steve
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i had to download a modified Creative Driver to get it to work, it was NGO Creative modified driver, might be worth a Google
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