The newly revamped "Hibernate" function works flawlessly, even on archaic hardware like mine. It saves everything, so you can completely turn off your PC, and later turn it back on to the same turn in your favorite game. Very cool. Also, the sleep feature works well too, and doesn't leave you hanging either! One of the most amazing things about Vista thus far for me is that my drivers would not install correctly for a few devices (although it recognized more devices than my XP install did right off the bat) until I went in through the update driver option. This allowed Vista to find my driver file and install everything the way it wanted to, which worked famously. Vista did crash on me completely a few times, but at this point, I am not sure whether this is Vista's or my aging hardware's fault. To tell you the truth, I can't wait to buy a brand new PC, just to hot-rod Vista in all it's muscle. I know it has many flaws, but I think once Microsoft puts on the finishing touches, there is enough there to really please fans and critics alike.The skinny on big fat Vista Part 4
The newly revamped "Hibernate" function works flawlessly, even on archaic hardware like mine. It saves everything, so you can completely turn off your PC, and later turn it back on to the same turn in your favorite game. Very cool. Also, the sleep feature works well too, and doesn't leave you hanging either! One of the most amazing things about Vista thus far for me is that my drivers would not install correctly for a few devices (although it recognized more devices than my XP install did right off the bat) until I went in through the update driver option. This allowed Vista to find my driver file and install everything the way it wanted to, which worked famously. Vista did crash on me completely a few times, but at this point, I am not sure whether this is Vista's or my aging hardware's fault. To tell you the truth, I can't wait to buy a brand new PC, just to hot-rod Vista in all it's muscle. I know it has many flaws, but I think once Microsoft puts on the finishing touches, there is enough there to really please fans and critics alike.Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. I was a little disappointed Vista needed that 2nd step to get drivers working. Hopefully the driver update code will get integrated into the install routine.
One question about the Hibernate routine in this version: Does it work on laptops (ie: do they wake up correctly)? I don't have enough extra laptop hardware to find out if it works any better than the Dec 2005 CTP version (discussed at bottom of WinSuperSite Review).
-Mike
Posted at 11:55PM on Jun 16th 2006 by Mike Bijon
3. ... for the above post, here's the link for the WinSuperSite mention of laptop hibernate problems in the Vista 2005 CTP: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_5270_03.asp
Posted at 12:01AM on Jun 17th 2006 by Mike Bijon
4. We use Hibernate regurlarly in our household in the place of shut down, but I was wondering what the difference between Sleep and Hibernate is? Hibernate completely powers off your system so you can unplug it, is that the same with sleep? Is sleep faster?
Posted at 12:08AM on Jun 17th 2006 by Daniel
5. Hibernate saves everything and shuts off completely. Sleep will save everything and go into a very low power state to save battery, etc. then wakes up quicker, cause it isn't completely shut down. I find that both work rather well, even on my laptop. The problem I have is that it takes a little long because I don't have a lot of memory to help it wake up, but all in all, the performance of Vista's Hibernate and Sleep is much better than XP's used to be on this same laptop.
Posted at 2:12AM on Jun 17th 2006 by Ryan Carter
6. I've tried the beta, but alas many .Net applications built on version 1 or 1.1 will not work with the new .Net 3.0 and is rather frustrating since most of the decent podcasts clients are built on this standard for cross platform support with mono.
Posted at 10:55PM on Jun 17th 2006 by mrkaiser
7. Can't youn just downaload and install the 1.0 and 1.1 versions of .Net? I've yet to receive my copy of Vista, so I'm just speculating
Posted at 8:21AM on Jun 19th 2006 by Joe Maki
8. I remember running the Beta for Windows 95, there was an excitement and buzz because the interface had been so radically overhauled. Vista was meant to be as big a jump as those heady days. Trouble is, from what I can tell from testing out the Beta 2 release, Microsoft have simply brushed up XP to look a bit snazzier which isn't what the industry was hoping for after a 5 year wait, we were hoping for some inovations and instead we got some rehashes of products that are already out for XP. Internet Explorer 7 from Firefox? Dashboard from Konfabulator? Even the snazzy black look can be emulated on Windowsblinds so what really useful interface improvements are there from XP that haven't already been implemented? In my opinion at the moment there just isn't enough to warrant the purchase of some mega machine to run them on.
Posted at 11:48AM on Jun 28th 2006 by Jason
9. The only exclusive things Vista will have when it comes out will be it's inclueded DRM protection everywhere, maybe even at bios level, everything else you can have it on XP today, for free (freewares)
Sidebars, startmenu search, virtual folders and so on, everything is at just a google search away.
Posted at 8:16AM on Jun 29th 2006 by Mee
1. I am wanting to get Windows Vista, but I will probrably wait for all the bugs to get worked out.
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Posted at 5:31PM on Jun 16th 2006 by Dave