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<\/p>\nSo that’s Windows Vista Ultimate installed, I’m dual-booting alongside my existing Windows XP SP2 installation. This install started at 2225 and ran on until 2248 when the second re-boot had taken place. A little bit of configuration and some automatic updates, and at 2255 I was ready to go – an end-to-end installation time of 30 minutes. <\/p>\n
It seems that my 2.8GHz Dual Core Pentium with 2GB of RAM is enjoying a Windows Experience Index of 3.6. I reckon that a decent graphics card should improve that score – something for 2007 I think.<\/p>\n
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The first thing I needed to sort out was the boot order. Prior to this Vista install, I had Windows XP SP2 installed. Also prior to this install, I had stuck a 250GB IDE drive in the machine and installed Vista there – hence I already had the Windows Vista “new” boot manager interface already installed (on the same drive as Windows XP). So I found myself reading the BCDEdit FAQ<\/a>. Incidentally, I’ve since removed the IDE drive in favour of a 250GB Western Digital SATA-2<\/a> drive.<\/p>\n BCDEdit is a command-line tool, so you’ll need to be a little more careful with it that you would with a Windows application. You’ll also need to run BCDEdit using the Command Prompt and you’ll need to do this whilst running as an Administrator. To do this, just right-click on the Command Prompt icon and choose Run as administrator<\/em> as shown below.<\/p>\n Simply running BCDEdit from the Command Prompt window reveals the three<\/em> operating systems in the boot order:<\/p>\n [code] Windows Boot Manager Windows Legacy OS Loader Windows Boot Loader Windows Boot Loader The entry for Windows Legacy OS Loader is for the existing Windows XP SP2 install, I need to keep that. The entry for Windows Boot Loader with the {current} identifier is the, perhaps obviously, the current Windows Vista install, i.e. the one I’m using – again, I need to keep that! I happen to know that the offending Windows Vista installation is the last one, so we’ll ask BCDEdit to remove it for us. Be sure to remember to include the trailing \/f<\/strong> to force the deletion of the entry, as shown below:<\/p>\n [code] The next thing I sorted out was the SoundBlaster Live 24 driver. As luck would have it, Creative released new Vista drivers today of all days! So I downloaded those and all was well.<\/p>\n However, I was a little surprised to see this:<\/p>\n I been using a Microsoft Fingerprint Keyboard for the last 12 months, it’s great; it has a very fluid feel about it. It has been on the market for at least a year, I would have thought that Vista drivers would have been part of the install or automatic update that takes place after the installation. Anyway, a little bit of hunting around the said drivers were found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n That’s all for this post, I’ll write more as I move my line of business applications over to Windows Vista and to Microsoft Office 2007. Fortunately, all my data lives on another SATA drive, so there’s nothing to move there.<\/p>\n I’m just about to publish this post and I notice that a certain [non-Microsoft] vendor’s toolbar isn’t present, so I can’t spell-check this post without a little bit of cut’n’paste. Now, wouldn’t it be nice if I could just right-click the mouse on this Internet Explorer text box and have the recently installed Microsoft Word 2007 spell-check kick in for this blog post? Time for some more updates!<\/p>\n Technorati Tags: Windows Vista<\/a>, Vista<\/a>, boot manager<\/a>, BCDEdit<\/a>, Creative<\/a>, SoundBlaster Live 24<\/a>, Fingerprint<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a>, Windows Experience Index<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So that’s Windows Vista Ultimate installed, I’m dual-booting alongside my existing Windows XP SP2 installation. This install started at 2225 and ran on until 2248 when the second re-boot had taken place. A little bit of configuration and some automatic updates, and at 2255 I was ready to go – an end-to-end installation time of … Continue reading Windows Vista – first impressions…<\/span> ![run_as.jpg](\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/run_as.jpg\")
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\nC:\\Windows\\system32>BCDEDIT<\/p>\n
\n——————–
\nidentifier {bootmgr}
\ndevice partition=D:
\ndescription Windows Boot Manager
\nlocale en-US
\ninherit {globalsettings}
\ndefault {current}
\ndisplayorder {ntldr}
\n {current}
\n {6c55cb61-8829-11db-bcb7-82d3be135651}
\ntoolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
\ntimeout 30<\/p>\n
\n————————
\nidentifier {ntldr}
\ndevice partition=D:
\npath \\ntldr
\ndescription Earlier Version of Windows<\/p>\n
\n——————-
\nidentifier {current}
\ndevice partition=C:
\npath \\Windows\\system32\\winload.exe
\ndescription Microsoft Windows Vista
\nlocale en-US
\ninherit {bootloadersettings}
\nosdevice partition=C:
\nsystemroot \\Windows
\nresumeobject {de2efb5f-97d0-11db-bdf0-b386e7cc6f53}
\nnx OptIn<\/p>\n
\n——————-
\nidentifier {6c55cb61-8829-11db-bcb7-82d3be135651}
\ndevice unknown
\npath \\Windows\\system32\\winload.exe
\ndescription Microsoft Windows Vista
\nlocale en-US
\ninherit {bootloadersettings}
\nosdevice unknown
\nsystemroot \\Windows
\nresumeobject {6c55cb62-8829-11db-bcb7-82d3be135651}
\nnx OptIn
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
\nC:\\Windows\\system32>BCDEDIT \/delete {6c55cb62-8829-11db-bcb7-82d3be135651} \/f
\nThe operation completed successfully.
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n![not_recognised.jpg](\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/not_recognised.jpg\")
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