Well Vista did something surprising

> Did you also notice that Aero-Glass now works with Flip-3D?
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> -- Andy
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> "Rick Hallman" <rehallman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:455D96EA-4A4F-492B-837F-998B631A26A9@microsoft.com...

>> Well I installed and activated Vista on an old computer with minimal
>> specs. (Abit KT7A-Raid, Athlon 1400, Soundblaster Live 5.1, D-Link NIC,
>> ATI Rage Fury Pro AGP, 40 GB HD, 512 MB Ram). It didn't run very well
>> and it didn't recognize the old ATI video card so it ran as a generic
>> video card. I got tired of the hang ups so I slapped together another
>> motherboard combo from some spare parts and tried it again. I figured
>> that I would have to do a clean install since all the hardware changed
>> (Soyo KT600, Athlon XP 1900+, 512 MB DDR 2100, Nvidia FX 5200, Onboard
>> sound, Onboard NIC). I didn't have anything to lose so I let the
>> original installed OS on the 40 GB HD try to boot up the new setup. Well
>> surprise, surprise - Vista accepted the new configuration and changed all
>> of the drivers to reflect what it was now running on. Vista probably
>> took 10 to 15 minutes to download and install all of the drivers and I
>> had to ignore a premature reboot notice until it installed all the other
>> devices. After I did reboot the setup, I received an activation notice
>> that only 3 days were left to activate Vista. So I clicked the activate
>> button and was soon legal again. (2 lives used - 8 left)

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> Well I installed and activated Vista on an old computer with minimal
> specs. (Abit KT7A-Raid, Athlon 1400, Soundblaster Live 5.1, D-Link NIC,
> ATI Rage Fury Pro AGP, 40 GB HD, 512 MB Ram). It didn't run very well and
> it didn't recognize the old ATI video card so it ran as a generic video
> card. I got tired of the hang ups so I slapped together another
> motherboard combo from some spare parts and tried it again. I figured
> that I would have to do a clean install since all the hardware changed
> (Soyo KT600, Athlon XP 1900+, 512 MB DDR 2100, Nvidia FX 5200, Onboard
> sound, Onboard NIC). I didn't have anything to lose so I let the original
> installed OS on the 40 GB HD try to boot up the new setup. Well surprise,
> surprise - Vista accepted the new configuration and changed all of the
> drivers to reflect what it was now running on. Vista probably took 10 to
> 15 minutes to download and install all of the drivers and I had to ignore
> a premature reboot notice until it installed all the other devices. After
> I did reboot the setup, I received an activation notice that only 3 days
> were left to activate Vista. So I clicked the activate button and was
> soon legal again. (2 lives used - 8 left)