Yeah, to bad even Microsoft can't handle the number of poeple that want it

I got it.  My video card is really not all that great, so I can't run glass.  

UAP is annoying, but I see good use for it if they work a few things out with it.

I thought you might like to see this screen shoot.  I really like the new layout and the added functionality, but there are (so far) 3 critical programs that don't run on it .

What about the screen shot?

I just think it is cool that you can have a slide show, a clock, rss feeds, cpu usage, and calculator right on your desktop.  It really saves me time.  I love the gaget feture.  I do agree, the UAP sucks!  I turned it off becaue everytime I booted it would pop up 3 times in a row because of the Antivirus that Microsoft suggested

Haha.

I use Winbar in XP and so I always had the CPU and Mem usage (along with RSS feeds -- but I used that just for the current outside weather temp ).

oi oi craig wondering if ya can help me out, just want to ask how you got vista working, did you download it as an iso? and if so did you burn it as an image or mount it on a virtual drive? this is because every time i try and instal mine i keep getting this unable to open windows iage  error message which crashes the whole thing and ruins my day, so im worndering what other ways there are to get the iso working without doing it as a boot disc.

Burn the image to a DVD.

Then boot from that DVD.

Yup.  I tried everything as a virtual drive, and even un-compressed it to my local machine, but in the end I had to burn a DVD to get it to work.

The sad thing is that Microsoft actually says this on the site where you download it...but of course I didn't bother to read that.

It would have been nice of them to include something in the download though too .

it seems like a load of rubbish, i have tried mounting it and burning to a dvd and i get errors with both of em, i have given up all too corrupt for me

ha my life just got worse, as of reading that these errors might be due to corrupt files and that ist worth downloading again, which i done and takes about 24 hours with a wireless connection that keeps going down, the active x download manager that they supply u with crashed out on me at 91% and thought it would be funny to delete all the downloaded bits. I'll head to linux

Oh, I forgot to mention (Microsoft says this too), that you more than likely have to install this on a fresh partition.  Trust me, you download is fine.  If you have a spare hardrive (I went out and bought one), install it, and install it from scratch.  It will work then.

I just resized my partition.

Thanks Craig mate, i managed to get another hard drive and installed it, works fine now,

Vista Pre-RC1 was released to the first 100,000 people today.  So far I like it a LOT better than Beta 2.  

I do wish I could use Trillian though.