[Dx4win] Microsoft Vista Beta 2 - Impressions

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

I installed Vista Beta 2 last night in a dual-boot configuration.  It 
went fairly smoothly:

     http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/windows-vista-beta-how-to-dual-boot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php

I had to manually download and install Vista drivers for my Creative 
Audigy 2 soundcard, but could not get the USB drivers for my 
PowerWare UPS to install.

I could not get DX4WIN to run, however.   It asked me to copy the 
vichw11.sys file to my Vista windows\system32\drivers directory, 
which I did (from Windows XP, Vista would not let me copy files into 
the system32\drivers directory, even though my account had 
administrator privileges) but I got the same message again and could 
not start DX4WIN.  NOTE:  I did not install DX4WIN 7.02, but tried to 
run my existing installation in-place.

I also had various permission problems running my E-mail 
client.  Because the user ID of the Eudora files did not match my 
Vista user ID, it wasn't working very well.  Yes, I did install 
Eudora, but told it to use the data files that were located 
separately from the program.

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 seemed OK, however.

Other than a fancier user interface ("see-through windows, ooohhh, 
aaahhh"), I didn't see anything that compelled me to switch to Vista.

73 - Jim AD1C

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