Removing Vista Beta 2, will wait for RC 1

Vista Beta 2 proved to be a very interesting experience. I was able to send
several suggestions and incidence reports to Microsoft using the Vista
Reporting Tool.

However, I find that boot times seem to be getting longer for every boot, by
the boot, and exploring the system now seems to make it hang. I can open
Explorer or Computer and they do spring up almost instantly - however,
navigating to any folder now seems to take longer and longer every time.

I cannot explain this, but the size of the system itself seems to be growing
every day though I have not added any new software or stored additional
documents on the system drive.

Without the page file (being located on a physically separate drive), the
system size is now over 16 GB. About a half of this seems to be in the
WinSxS directory. I cannot browse the myriad sub-directories here as the
system hangs when I open this directory.

The only software on this system include Firefox, Acronis TrueImage 8,
WinDVD 7, MS Office 2003, and general utilities as Ad-Aware, WinRAR, Adobe
Reader, and so on.

Regretfully, the novelty seems to have worn off somewhat with this
sluggishness and unexplained obesity.

I will restore this test machine to the Windows XP Pro originally on it
(stored in an offline Acronis image file) and return to Vista when the RC 1
comes out. I understand this may be sometime next month.

Thanks and regards to the help I have received from these newsgroups during
my Vista experience in dealing with little things I needed advice on.

You all are a group of wonderful people here!

Cheers.

JP
----

Glad to have you along for the trip!

"JP" <jp@private.nospam> wrote in message
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> Vista Beta 2 proved to be a very interesting experience. I was able to
> send
> several suggestions and incidence reports to Microsoft using the Vista
> Reporting Tool.
>
> However, I find that boot times seem to be getting longer for every boot,
> by
> the boot, and exploring the system now seems to make it hang. I can open
> Explorer or Computer and they do spring up almost instantly - however,
> navigating to any folder now seems to take longer and longer every time.
>
> I cannot explain this, but the size of the system itself seems to be
> growing
> every day though I have not added any new software or stored additional
> documents on the system drive.
>
> Without the page file (being located on a physically separate drive), the
> system size is now over 16 GB. About a half of this seems to be in the
> WinSxS directory. I cannot browse the myriad sub-directories here as the
> system hangs when I open this directory.
>
> The only software on this system include Firefox, Acronis TrueImage 8,
> WinDVD 7, MS Office 2003, and general utilities as Ad-Aware, WinRAR, Adobe
> Reader, and so on.
>
> Regretfully, the novelty seems to have worn off somewhat with this
> sluggishness and unexplained obesity.
>
> I will restore this test machine to the Windows XP Pro originally on it
> (stored in an offline Acronis image file) and return to Vista when the RC
> 1
> comes out. I understand this may be sometime next month.
>
> Thanks and regards to the help I have received from these newsgroups
> during
> my Vista experience in dealing with little things I needed advice on.
>
> You all are a group of wonderful people here!
>
> Cheers.
>
> JP
> ----
>
>
>
>
>
>

Sorry to see you go. Good luck, and don't forget the restore MBR option,
since Vista changed it.

"JP" <jp@private.nospam> wrote in message
news:%23VV5gkioGHA.4024@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Vista Beta 2 proved to be a very interesting experience. I was able to
> send
> several suggestions and incidence reports to Microsoft using the Vista
> Reporting Tool.
>
> However, I find that boot times seem to be getting longer for every boot,
> by
> the boot, and exploring the system now seems to make it hang. I can open
> Explorer or Computer and they do spring up almost instantly - however,
> navigating to any folder now seems to take longer and longer every time.
>
> I cannot explain this, but the size of the system itself seems to be
> growing
> every day though I have not added any new software or stored additional
> documents on the system drive.
>
> Without the page file (being located on a physically separate drive), the
> system size is now over 16 GB. About a half of this seems to be in the
> WinSxS directory. I cannot browse the myriad sub-directories here as the
> system hangs when I open this directory.
>
> The only software on this system include Firefox, Acronis TrueImage 8,
> WinDVD 7, MS Office 2003, and general utilities as Ad-Aware, WinRAR, Adobe
> Reader, and so on.
>
> Regretfully, the novelty seems to have worn off somewhat with this
> sluggishness and unexplained obesity.
>
> I will restore this test machine to the Windows XP Pro originally on it
> (stored in an offline Acronis image file) and return to Vista when the RC
> 1
> comes out. I understand this may be sometime next month.
>
> Thanks and regards to the help I have received from these newsgroups
> during
> my Vista experience in dealing with little things I needed advice on.
>
> You all are a group of wonderful people here!
>
> Cheers.
>
> JP
> ----
>
>
>
>
>
>

JP schrieb:
....

> You all are a group of wonderful people here!

Oh...

>
> Cheers.
>
> JP

So long... hope to see you back in this group together with RC1!

rOy

MBR option?

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Sorry to see you go. Good luck, and don't forget the restore MBR option,
> since Vista changed it.
>
> "JP" <jp@private.nospam> wrote in message
> news:%23VV5gkioGHA.4024@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>
>
>

We'll miss ya!

"JP" <jp@private.nospam> wrote in message
news:%23VV5gkioGHA.4024@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Vista Beta 2 proved to be a very interesting experience. I was able to
> send
> several suggestions and incidence reports to Microsoft using the Vista
> Reporting Tool.
>
> However, I find that boot times seem to be getting longer for every boot,
> by
> the boot, and exploring the system now seems to make it hang. I can open
> Explorer or Computer and they do spring up almost instantly - however,
> navigating to any folder now seems to take longer and longer every time.
>
> I cannot explain this, but the size of the system itself seems to be
> growing
> every day though I have not added any new software or stored additional
> documents on the system drive.
>
> Without the page file (being located on a physically separate drive), the
> system size is now over 16 GB. About a half of this seems to be in the
> WinSxS directory. I cannot browse the myriad sub-directories here as the
> system hangs when I open this directory.
>
> The only software on this system include Firefox, Acronis TrueImage 8,
> WinDVD 7, MS Office 2003, and general utilities as Ad-Aware, WinRAR, Adobe
> Reader, and so on.
>
> Regretfully, the novelty seems to have worn off somewhat with this
> sluggishness and unexplained obesity.
>
> I will restore this test machine to the Windows XP Pro originally on it
> (stored in an offline Acronis image file) and return to Vista when the RC
> 1
> comes out. I understand this may be sometime next month.
>
> Thanks and regards to the help I have received from these newsgroups
> during
> my Vista experience in dealing with little things I needed advice on.
>
> You all are a group of wonderful people here!
>
> Cheers.
>
> JP
> ----
>
>
>
>
>
>

Haven't used Acronis, but Drive Image, Ghost have an option to restore the
MBR when restoring a drive.


"marc.nutty" <marcnutty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> MBR option?
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>