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Go now or wait? (WinSDK CTP)
Individual.net has no Vista Beta groups. Found this link you might find of use, Windows Vista Beta: How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista It copies the files, decompresses them, then it restarts and says "Installing Windows" and just sits there, I let it sit for over an hour and nothing happened.

Service Pack 3 for XP
Bruce Coryell bcory...@chesco.com alt windows-xp Pat Glenn wrote: If you're bothered by the rules for XP, you are going to just love Vista. I understand the problems with people installing multiple copies of programs when they are not licensed to do so. I just wish Microsoft would find a better solution to the

KB938371 will not install
This would be a problem if I was trying to capture the Windows Vista Beta 2 ISO image saved on my hard drive as it is over 3GB in size. Thanks, Martin "Robert Moir" wrote: Martin Healy wrote: I am currently planning on installing windows XP and Windows Vista on two separate primary partitions or logical drives

Plug-in to Windows Media Player in Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3
I have tried Installing via Windows Update/Standalone, disabling UAC, Anti-Virus etc, even deleted the SoftwareDistribution folder, but nothing has worked... Can't use system restore as restore doesn't go back far enough, ie before the 12th of February I have "hidden" the Update.... My qyestions are: 1) What is

50 Reasons to Switch from Windows to OS X
Is it recommended to undertake a clean re-install of Vista prior to installing Service Pack 1 ? God I hope not as I've installed/uninstalled/installed various builds of SP1 at least 4 times now. In other words....NO -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Pro SP2/SP3 Beta/Vista Ultimate SP1 Beta Triple Boot.

US military div switching to Mac..............
FamilyID=114f3599-12af-42b2-aab1-b969a62c68a7&DisplayLang=en I take it this is a Beta? If so, will it need to be uninstalled prior to installing the final version when that becomes available? I understand that Vista SP1 Betas must be uninstalled prior to installing the final version (available on Window's Update

Advice - Best way to transfer settings to a Vista Clean install.
Robert Moir robspamtrap+msn...@gmail.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment Martin Healy wrote: I am currently planning on installing windows XP and I'm wondering if I encountered a virus corruption problem or virus attack while working with Windows Vista Beta 2; would my entire hard drive or disk be

vista beta
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 NCQ 250GB ST3250824AS SATA-II 8MB Cache Nice one :-) Just installing windows xp 64 then i will dual boot it with windows vista beta. D No raid? You fucking pleb. its a *very* nice system mate. ) without a raided drive array it is shit. Mate. *envy* is good mate. lol. :D Envy is bad.

KB938371 will not install
I have downloaded the windows vista beta program and then burned the program onto a dvd using the Roxio Mediahub program. I have reinsurted the disc into my computer and the windows vista installation program will not start. For some reason the Roxio Mediahub program restarts instead. I opened the properties window

Installing SP1 -- need a little advice
With All Of The People Who Are Using Microsoft's Hack To Get Service Pack One Earlier Than March (Something That Only The Microsoft Connect Windows Vista Service Pack One Beta Tester's Were Supposed To Have Access To), Both Windows Vista Update, And Microsoft Update Have Been As Slow As A Turtle (Sort of Reminds Me

Siemens Software
Barry n...@spam.ta microsoft public windows vista general May I also add that after successfully installing all the other updates I've just installed this update by itself using Windows I'm using Vista Home Premium 32 bit and I've never installed the SP1 Beta if it's of any relevance. Any advice would be appreciated.

Vista BSoD's During Installation
Frank f...@osspan.clm microsoft public windows vista general maya wrote: Frank wrote: maya wrote: Frank wrote: maya wrote: Frank wrote: maya wrote: ...ignorantly stupid childish crap We use Vista Ultimate in our marketing/advertising business and it is installed on 15 boxes both x32 & x64. We were in on the beta.

Windows installer doesnt work
I'm trying to install MBSA 2.1 Beta 2 on several workstations. Two installs under WinXP SP2 and SP3(rc) went fine. The Vista install repeatedly hangs with the message "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2738.

WIndows XP Does Recognize a partition it makes during Install.
Frank f...@notspam.com microsoft public windows vista general maya wrote: Frank wrote: maya wrote: Frank wrote: maya wrote: Frank wrote: maya wrote: Frank wrote: maya We were in on the beta. We prepared our computers and our staff for using Vista in a productive mode. We over came any and all initial issues.

Problem installing Vista RC1....
Same issue as someone else, but my issue is that I had Vista Beta 2 on the system I got sick of its poor performace so went to put xp back on my system. <hard drive info> However, this disk does not contain a Windows compatible partition. To continue installing Windows, return to the partition screen and create

A month of shame
I met no "hurdles" in my installation of Vista, either RC1 or RC2. But I am very experienced in installing and using Beta software of all kinds, and have been a user of Microsoft OSes .... If you do that, you will have few problems installing Windows software, unless it is for versions of Windows previous to XP.

Speeding Up Vista...
Martin Racette rat7_2...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Yesterday, to make sure that I would get all other updates, and since I wasn't Assuming that the SP1 update is final, are these smaller updates prerequisite to installing SP1? One of the stated purposes of SP1 was to roll-up most of the

Speeding Up Vista...
One more thing, where might I access the Vista beta group 0) Thanks for your help! If you are running Beta / RC1 software you should be able to figure that out yourself decompresses them, then it restarts and says "Installing Windows" and just sits there, I let it sit for over an hour and nothing happened.

Code 51E on SP1 update
I just posted how to get rid of B) A) would be a Vista beta group question. See If VIsta brought back a very useful tool, check the boot.log (ntbtlog.txt) it was very useful decompresses them, then it restarts and says "Installing Windows" and just sits there, I let it sit for over an hour and nothing happened.

US military div switching to Mac..............
I know I just loaded a new Beta Driver for my audio chip so I know something about this driver is not loading cleanly. After installing Vista everything for the most part seemed fine without any problems or conflicts. After that got all Windows Updates and also latest drivers for my hardware.