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lasseht   09-04-2006 at 02:52:59 PM

Anyone got a link to the "final" RC1 build 5600 ?

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306maxi   09-04-2006 at 07:52:50 PM
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Anyone got a link to the "final" RC1 build 5600 ?



As far as I know the RC1 will only be available later this week. Someone else may be able to confirm :)

I've still got my Beta 2 key from June. Will this work just fine?

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Zoron   09-04-2006 at 10:52:26 PM
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RC-1 is released... however it doesn't look like it's been released to the general public yet. If you were in the Beta 2, you should be getting an email from M$ concerning RC-1.

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306maxi   09-05-2006 at 03:11:05 PM
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RC-1 is released... however it doesn't look like it's been released to the general public yet. If you were in the Beta 2, you should be getting an email from M$ concerning RC-1.



Ok cheers :) Any idea if my key will still work from Beta 2 or will it be a new one? :)

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Zoron   09-06-2006 at 12:35:02 AM
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I'll give mine a try and let you know...

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306maxi   09-06-2006 at 12:42:30 AM
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I'll give mine a try and let you know...



Cheers :) If it is different I just hope I don't accidently delete the email with teh key in it :P

Toms is reporting that RC1 will be open to the public soon. Good stuff

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006 [...] _rc1_test/

I'm just itching to try Vista again after 3 months of not having it because I forgot to copy it onto my hard disk when I was travelling overseas.

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306maxi   09-06-2006 at 01:32:07 AM
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Toms is reporting that RC1 will be open to the public soon.



Someone on the MS site said 7/9 so I guess I'll have to wait another day :)

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aggieoo7   09-07-2006 at 04:47:39 PM
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Download for RC-1 limited to previous beta users only?
Comment on Vista pricing:
Most forums I have looked at say MS pricing too high and better off to stay with what we got. Too many pricing levels . Why not one level
like most WINDOWS OSes?

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306maxi   09-07-2006 at 04:47:40 PM
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Toms is reporting that RC1 will be open to the public soon.



Someone on the MS site said 7/9 so I guess I'll have to wait another day :)

http://download.windowsvista.com/p [...] wnload.htm

Here's the link!

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diceman111   09-08-2006 at 06:33:30 PM
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Well I have doenloaded Vista now all I have to do is wait for the public testing to begin since I dont have a Serial :twisted:

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mickeddie   09-08-2006 at 06:43:59 PM
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I havn't done anything with the ISO yet...the serial is not one of the files in it? If not, how does one get the serial?

Do I have to extract the files with an ISO utility and then burn all of the files to a DVD?

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diceman111   09-08-2006 at 10:27:20 PM
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I havn't done anything with the ISO yet...the serial is not one of the files in it? If not, how does one get the serial?

Do I have to extract the files with an ISO utility and then burn all of the files to a DVD?



What i have been able to tell from microsofts webpage you have to sign up for their Customer Preview program or whatever its callen and then you will get a serial

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Bear_San   09-08-2006 at 11:34:21 PM
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I'm not sure if anyone else has posted a link to a place where you can actually download the files, but here it it.

http://download.windowsvista.com/p [...] wnload.htm

There are two different downloads, 32 bit and 64 bit. I am currently running 64 bit Vista, and it runs fine. Be advised though, it will need to be registered, and you'll only have 14 Days to activate, so don't install unless you're willing to lose everything or have a second harddrive or second partition.

Good luck.

Edit: You CAN install without a serial in advance.

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CaPtAiN_InSaNo   09-09-2006 at 12:41:39 AM
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where or how do i actually sign up for Vista RC1? They have no links ont he site for signing up, just tells you what you can do, not how, which doesn't help me at all since i was not signed up for Beta 2. thanks.
also waht about drivers? I only saw video card driver on the site, i didn't see any chipset drivers listed, even for new 590 chipsets for vista? Does it have nvidia drivers integrated or no longer need/automatically dl those drivers now?

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mickeddie   09-09-2006 at 03:51:01 AM
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvi [...] eview.mspx

It says the customer preview program will open in the next few weeks. So I guess it's a good thing I didn't start the install process. :wink:

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306maxi   09-10-2006 at 10:18:46 AM
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I'm not sure if anyone else has posted a link to a place where you can actually download the files, but here it it.

http://download.windowsvista.com/p [...] wnload.htm

There are two different downloads, 32 bit and 64 bit. I am currently running 64 bit Vista, and it runs fine. Be advised though, it will need to be registered, and you'll only have 14 Days to activate, so don't install unless you're willing to lose everything or have a second harddrive or second partition.

Good luck.

Edit: You CAN install without a serial in advance.



Seriously how hard would it have been to look just 4 posts above and see the same link as yours in my post??????? :roll:

Found out that even though I hadn't installed with my product ID and registered it online it still works. Running 32bit Vista. ONly thing that doesn't want to work is Trend Micro's AV Internet Security suite which was meant to work on Vista RC1 :?

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kpride017   09-11-2006 at 12:02:37 AM
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You can only get the new serial # from microsoft if they e-mail you. Only a select number of CPP users are welcomed to the new beta RC1.

I do have the new serial # in my mail box. So if you werent lucky enough to have one then you must wait, or see if anyone is willing to sell you one :lol:

Has anyone installed RC1 yet? I want to see if its stable enough to install. Beta 2 had to many bugs.

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mickeddie   09-11-2006 at 03:53:15 AM
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send me the serial # and I'll tell you if it's stable. :wink:

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Zoron   09-11-2006 at 10:40:21 AM
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If you have a Beta 2 key, it will work for RC-1... at least mine did.

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SEALBoy   09-15-2006 at 01:18:28 AM
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I've got Vista RC1 up and running. I actually downloaded it using a torrent cause I couldn't wait for the RC1 program thing to open again (as it turns out, it opened the same day I installed Vista, so now I have it activated and its technically legal). It runs pretty fine with Aero and the Sidebar features on. If you read my topic above this one you'll see one of the problems I've been getting: massive, unexplainable harddrive access. It actually happened overnight... the HD led was consistently on when I went to sleep and still on when I woke up. My RAM usage is fine (50%) so I have no clue what causes this.

My PC:
Athlon X2 3800(AM2)
1GB DDR2 533 RAM (128MB to GeForce 6100)
160 GB Seagate SATA2 7200.9 HD

Other than the "minor" problem, I like Vista... Aero is pretty cool.

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Mojonator   09-29-2006 at 01:04:19 AM
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send me the serial # and I'll tell you if it's stable. :wink:



Here is a link that i came upon to get a SN for vista.
http://www.laboratoire-microsoft.org/n/22215/

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