A couple of months ago I upgraded my home PC with the RTM version of Windows Vista Ultimate. I performed a clean install because the previous RC2 started to degrade and turned out to be a faulty disk drive. I have a SATA Raid controller on my motherboard and I was using a stripe-set volume configuration with two identical 80GB SATA drives, but one of them failed and I had to undo the RAID and install the new Vista using only one disk.

After that, I have to say that my new Vista setup is running very smoothly. My machine is an old P4C 2.4Ghz with 2GB DDR RAM in dual channel configuration, at the time I build this baby it was the top of the line....  and still have some punch....

The only thing I deeply regret is the fact I have a Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback joystick with the old DB15 joystick connector and it doesn't work anymore in Vista. I miss my force feedback joystick very much.....   support for old DB15 devices has been removed from Vista in favor of newer USB devices.....   I think that's too bad!

Appart from that, I'm very pleased with Vista, and when I get my new notebook I will install Vista on it with no doubt.

See U!

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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