Windows Vista Beta 2 public release

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i for one will try to delay purchasing Vista until they bring out the Vista SP1  patch, that will include all the things they will have left out in the finished release.
Security wise, Vista will be better than XP, but for now i am using third party  software (and vista stuff) to `upgrade` XP  to looook like Vista, but  yet be more compatible and bug free and less resource hunger.

Example Visual Task Tips

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Hum,
open `folders options` in control panel and customise to taste once your target window is open.

or use a `vista skin` for windowblinds....

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Hum,
you tried the transformation pack (V3)?

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Notice the small `history` arrow buttons

Also
"One thing that each new beta of Vista has proven well to do, is become more system intensive than the last. The Aero Glass feature alone can be responsible for eating up over 100MB of ram. The OS in general is quite bulky, especially the Ultimate, which makes people wonder how they are supposed to run it at release. After a fresh WinXP install, you can usually expect near 30 processes to be running, but in Vista, that number skyrockets to 40+. Not only are there more processes though, but each one takes a significant amount of ram."

 Source

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Hum,
First Update for Windows Vista Beta 2 and Windows Codename Longhorn Server Beta 2 (KB919946)

Install this update to fix an issue where in the presence of Internet Protocol security (IPsec) or Windows Firewall, a race condition can be hit on multi-processor (or hyper-threaded) systems causing memory corruption, leading to a system crash.

www.microsoft.com/downloads/theNightmareBegins

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@seer
Hum,
Grisoft, the maker of the popular free antivirus software AVG has announced that Microsoft has fixed a bug that was preventing AVG from installing on Vista Beta 2. You need to get an update though.

Peter Cameron of Grisoft's Australian distributor Avalanche Technology said Vista Beta 2 users should obtain the Microsoft patch via Windows Update.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

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Hum,
perhaps you should leave it a while,

Some of Microsoft's efforts to make Windows Vista its most stable and secure operating system ever could cause instability and new security flaws, according to a Symantec report.

Researchers at Cupertino, California-based Symantec examined the new networking technology in recent test releases of Vista, Microsoft's next major operating system release. They found several security bugs and determined that Vista's networking technology will be less stable, at least in the short run, than Windows XP's.

 "Microsoft has removed a large body of tried and tested code and replaced it with freshly written code, complete with new corner cases and defects. This may provide for a more stable networking stack in the long term, but stability will suffer in the short term."

http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6095119.html