Last week I upgraded my personal machine to the Vista RC2 version. It was running RC1 and for the most part it worked well, except for some blue screens and some extrange behavior with my video card making my machine to loose video after some time. This machine had Vista Beta2 but this version started to degrade after some time to the point I couldn't even login. At that time I recovered a backup of everything I needed and perform a clean install of RC1.

The upgrade operation went smooth and I have to say that RC2 is working better for me than RC1, so far no blue screens or loosing video signal!

Anyway, there are some small quirks (like some Sidebar gadgets not working) but nothing critical. I have a nice video board (ATI Radeon 9600XT) so glass is no problem but the ATI drivers are rather buggy. I really expect them to make a better job for the final versions of the drivers.

The general performance is good and so far I have no complains on this release, so give it a try and you will be surprised.

Please remember that for running Vista inside a virtual machine you will need some of the latests (ergo, BETA) versions of Virtual PC or Virtual Server.

Andrés G Vettori
MCSE/MCSD/MCT
EDS Top Gun - .NET Capability Architect

Leader of the C# Community of the Microsoft Users Group Argentina

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