Heh, nice Arron, 42! Well, with a decimal...

Huh, only that. What subsections bringing it down?

My processor; the single-cored Athlon 64 4000+ running at 2.4GHz with 1MiB L2 cache, which I really should overclock at some point, after all I didn't buy that Zalman CNPS9500Cu-LED for nothing, ROFL!

Anyway. Here is a shot of my desktop:

Do you have a TPM chip, because apparently I don't even though I'm not sure if its just I have a BIOS that has it disabled. I wanted to see how BitLocker reduced performance but I can't if I don't have the hardware (dammit).

Hmm, it's doing those transfers quite quick....

It's transferring from one hard drive to another

I like to have my taskbar twice as big as default, so I can have more programs with decently sized task buttons, but I think by the look of Microsoft's design of how the start button changes when I resize it, it makes me not want to. It looks horrible on the twice as thick version

I'm amazed! If I have more than 3 items in my taskbar, that probably means I'm using over 2GB of RAM, so it's best to know my limits and just stick with a standard 1-line taskbar.

Umm, HELL NO!

I am running: WLM, Skype, Gtalk, FF, WMP, OneNote, Steam, and Task Manager.

Note: look at the page file usage

Eurgh! That's ridiculous!

Tell me Simon, what's battery life like with Vista? Apparently, it is abysmal due to lots of strain on the hard drive.

Battery life? Suprisingly I have more battery life than I did with XP

3hr 20 on minimal, 2h20-2h40 on balanced and about 1h50 on max performance

And you've tested that time? You're not just basing that on Vista's guesstimates are you?

Here's a nice screenshot:


Screenshot of me running Linux with Gnome, Apache, MySQL, Firefox and obviously the System Monitor

If there's a good time to move to Linux, it's now.

They're tested, the vista guestimates are a little about half hour either side for that. Of course it depends on what I'm doing on the system at the time of testing.

More task manager, this one is for 1080p encoding:

[image]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y151/connectedcac/vista/taskman1080p.jpg[/image]

It has made the page file bigger again. What is weird is why isnt it using the RAM that I have, theres at least 100MB not being used there!?!



Aaron, why am I not suprised you put a Linux screenshot in here.

LOL, that's doing quite a lot of work...

This is something that is annoying me. I am burning through disk space because of the stupid Shadow Copies/Previous Versions, which is a good idea, but I have only been running two days, and if I am right about where it stores these files, [i]C:\\System Volume Information[/i] perhaps?

Well two days in and that folder is already 10GB in size, I had to change read permissions to get that figure, so I don't they want me finding that out.

Aaron how big is that folder and is it likely that it is the right one, and can you see any real use of the damn shadow copy service?

Hmm, would that be a bit like Apple's Time Machine? If it's chewing though that much disk space, it's probably nowhere near as useful as it should be.

It's kind of similar to Time Machine, apart from the fact that Mac owners would buy a hard drive specifically for data backup, rather than their operating system automatically deciding to backup for them. Time Machine requires a separate (external or network) hard drive.

Yah, I think that is a better idea, it also allows you to save data even if your hard drive goes kaput.

I took the computer to work today to demo Vista and our users were generally quite unimpressed with it.

While it was on the network, I tried browsing to one of our server's shares. It brought up this rather familiar looking window:

[img]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/azcn2503/Windows%20Vista/7756c013.jpg[/img]

It looks very out of place, seeing this XP imagery on the Aero UI. Inconsistency sucks. I'm also starting to notice how Microsoft completely redesigned everything to do with networking...... not.

Yeah, they were to busy adding features to do everything properly. You think they woulf have done everything properly....

This is me playing a game of CellFactor Tech Demo Beta:

[img]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/azcn2503/Windows%20Vista/5d8a3758.jpg[/img]

But fair play to Ageia who released a Vista driver very quickly. I hope Ageia live long and prosper.

Holy crap! That's a lot of usage! Then again it is a game...

Do you also have issues with it not remembering passwords? My Vista doesn't when I tell it to in those windows.

Apologies for the double post, but these are different issues that I now refer to, so I thought I might as well put them as seperate topics.

Running Windows Update last night, 2,300MB of optional updates!??! WTF?!?!?

What is it, language updates so that you can have a french UI, japanese UI, german UI, etc. blah blah blah, 13 of these, each taking up 0.6-1 GB when downloaded. I see little point in these and I have just hidden them from all future updates, so before you run your first updates from now on, watch out if you click on Install all updates including optional.