Windows Vista now in Public Beta!

Bindi (and anyone else who's managed to), how did you manage to turn the sidebar completely transparent? You also seem to have a few gadgets that I can't find either...

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New build is now out. Connect testers only at the moment though.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3019

 

?? Dunno dude, I just right clicked and added them. You using the 64bit version?

Havent played around making it completely transparent but it does do transparent.

 

No 32bit mate...ah well, not the end of the world, just looks nicer without the semi-transparent backing .

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i don't use the sidebar. Didn't quite like it. Don't know why, though...

It could be cool if it was more customizeable. and if it had _digital_ CPU/mem graphs.

analog instruments just don't fit on a digital device. (like a computer)

 

Well the development kits should be abailable very soon (if not already) so wait for an abundance of user-created gadgets .

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ehmmm i don't want to appear thick ( i am but lets not go there ) , i registered with Microsoft , used there down load manager and it said i have down loaded vista about 30 sec , but the file is only 14,064 KB big with a read me txt in it saying this " This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system
that supports the ISO-13346 "UDF" file system specification."


wtf am i doing wrong ? i cant burn it to dvd .... any help ?

 

OK i can get the 32 bit to download properly , but not the 64 bit .... strange !!!

 

i just discovered a pretty big problem. My USB pendrive won't work. It requires drivers. Who have drivers for something these days?

 

Smilodon? Everything requires drivers. What are you talking about?

 

I'm talking about the fact that usb pendrives/flash disks (whatever you want to call them) need drivers in vista.

XP have those drivers installed by default. Vista don't...


Manufacturers of those only make drivers for win98/win95, and not for xp, since there is no need for anything other than the standard drivers..

 

Well apparently you have USB drive that has no Drivers in Vista, my Kingmax 256, PNY 512, and Media Gear (insert SD card and you have USB drive) All work in Vista Beta 2 with no problem.