hi guys, my girlfriends bought a dell which entitles her to upgrade to vista for free. my question is can i use her cd? or can she only use it? or can we both use it? thanks =) its windows vista basic home.

and uhm by installing vista, do i have to reformat the whole com? or just "reinstall"?

fast and simple question. does vista ultimate require diff hardware specs? i'm currently on *ahem* Home Premium and getting a score of 3.0. want to try *ahem* ultimate. so uhm, i think its possible but will it cause my rig to lag like ballz?

i have a few questions which hope can be answered.

1. on xp i have Intel PROSet/Wireless to control my wifi. in vista i only have the built in windows app, thus i cant on/off my wifi.i couldnt find PROSet/Wireless for vista,anyone knows where?
2. sometimes i'm prompted that i dont have enough access and stuff, but on my vista only got 1 acc which is the admin one,so whats the prob?
3. what bluetooth sw u guys using? u built in one cant detect my external bt dongle, bluesoleil cant be *ahemed* yet.
4. i'm on a home wifi network. on xp i have folders in "My Network Places" but in vista in "Network" i dont have those folders, anyone know how to find it?

thanks thanks.

for me its also alot smoother, just that startup takes alot longer, around 7mins to be ready. after that smooth sailing all the way.dreamscene takes up quite alot cpu usage and ram usage is normally high ( >60%) even without doing anything.

my specs is 1.66 dual core, 1gb ram, and some lousy graphic card (the reason for slowing down).on ultimate.

i have a few questions which hope can be answered.

1. on xp i have Intel PROSet/Wireless to control my wifi. in vista i only have the built in windows app, thus i cant on/off my wifi.i couldnt find PROSet/Wireless for vista,anyone knows where?
2. sometimes i'm prompted that i dont have enough access and stuff, but on my vista only got 1 acc which is the admin one,so whats the prob?
3. what bluetooth sw u guys using? the built in one cant detect my external bt dongle, bluesoleil cant be *ahemed* yet.
4. i'm on a home wifi network. on xp i have folders in "My Network Places" but in vista in "Network" i dont have those folders, anyone facing the same prob?
thanks thanks.

ur ram normally takes up how much when idle?

when i was in home premium it was alot faster, but on ultimate alot slower, dont know why also. going into windows its fast,but when loading the startup programs takes quite some time,i think i'l try and configure it later. mayb its coz of dreamscene.

and on ultimate i face certain "flickers" from time to time, wierdly enough which i dont face in home premium. any ideas?

uhm,from what i have found. with or without dreamscene doesnt affect ram. dreamscene affects cpu usage.
with dreamscene on, my cpu usage >20% / ram >60%
without dreamscene on, cpu usage 0% / ram remains the same.
both situiations are idle.
oddly enough my ram usage is so high, anyone knows how to check?

and uhm, actually dreamscene is quite useless, its just WHOA for like 5mins when u first got it then after that normal lar. the main thing i change to ultimate is Hold'em Poker game =)

same situition here, but after that then smooth sailing lor. buden eat quite alot ram =(

any of u guys using readyboost? anycomments? i'm using 2gb mini sd for ready boost and i dont see no diff at all.

uhh okay, nowonder, then actually quite useless loh readyboost. coz vista users normall have 1gb ram and above.