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Those who know me well know that I can't stop playing with bleeding edge technology and that I get real fustrated when I can't get something to work. For the last week, I have been attempting to run Windows Vista in a huge VPC (1.2 GB of virtual RAM). I would get so fustrated as everything took forever - it would literally take 20-30 seconds for a window to come up and some things much longer. As the VirtualPC Blog says, “Windows Vista Beta 1 does not have drivers for our emulated video card, SCSI adapter and sound card.  The video and SCSI drivers are installed as part of the Virtual Machine Additions - however there is no way to get our sound card to work.”  So aggainst all common wisdom, I installed Windows Vista on my main Toshiba Satellite P25-S609 with 2 GB online RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce FX G05200. Holy crap, what a difference!! Not only did it install flawlessly and works great, but its very responsive and lightening quick! I am actually able to do all my work with my regular apps with no penalities.

I was able to get my sound card to work. I am having the same problems with the nVidia Vista Alpha drivers that Robert reports and I agree fully with him on this one: They have had 2 full years with Longhorn to have gotten these out, what are they doing? Even without them, I am loving this!