What do u mean?? The weather gadget is working now?

Are using Ati with CC ver 7.3? It was reported that this version of Ati CC could post problems in Vista.

U can try here! Look for the "mall" hyperlink at the lower left corner.

This post has been edited by cylon: Apr 11 2007, 03:09 PM

Ditch XP a long time ago due to numerous problems ( spyware especially and browser hijack ). Went to Linux route ( Fedora ) since it's safer for I used the PC mostly for Internet and torrent. Due to strict Fedora policy of not supporting non opened source programs, which make it problematic for me to source certain programs, went to Vista and never look back.

Currently running Ultimate 64 bit on my Athlon 64 2800+ with 1 Gb ram. Performance wise is the same if not better from XP. For me it's not Vista problems. It's actually up to individual programs, drivers or utilities installed. Some of those will never see the light of day getting updated. It's up to individual companies. I've got few peripherals with no updated drivers...APC Back Up 650, Logitech MX 700, Deskjet 5652 ( this one doesn't duplex print properly...had to use 990c printer drivers ).

My point is to do some research. Vista was made to take advantage of current and future technologies which lack support on XP. Multiple core cpus, bigger harddisk, HDCP, high defination digital contents, Blu-ray, hd-dvds and others. Heck if it was not for SP2 which took resources out of Microsoft from Vista, we might even got ourselves a new filesystem called WinFS.

Microsoft Readying Vista SP1 Beta for mid-July
Brandon Hill (Blog) - July 9, 2007 9:49 AM

:Microsoft suggests disabling ReadyBoost until SP1
:Microsoft plans numerous fixes including an update to ReadyBoost

Microsoft officially launched Windows Vista for volume licensing on November 30. The company also simultaneously launched Office 2007 giving Microsoft a 1-2 punch in the realm of operating systems and productivity suites.

"These are game-changing products," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the launch. "It's an incredible step forward for business computing in a year of unprecedented innovation from Microsoft. We expect that more than 200 million people will be using at least one of these products by the end of 2007."

Microsoft followed up with the retail launch of both products two months later on January 30. Both software products were made available in over 70 countries and over 40,000 retail locations.

Windows Vista is not even a year old, but Microsoft is already orchestrating the launch of Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta 1 for the week of July 16. Many companies will not even touch a new Microsoft operating system until the first service pack is released, so the quick rollout of SP1 isn't totally unexpected.

According to ZDNET's Mary Jo Foley, SP1 will RTM in November after just four months of testing. Microsoft will also release Windows Server 2008 at the same time.

Expected updates/fixes included with SP1 will be a revised Desktop Search, faster file copying and shutdown speeds, support for SD Advanced Direct Memory Access, enhancements to BitLocker Drive Encryption and Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) support on x64 machines.

There will also be changes made to Windows ReadyBoost. There have been numerous complaints around the web concerning ReadyBoost and resuming from S3/S4 sleep. Sluggish performance on resume can be attributed to numerous writes to 'Readyboost.sfcache' on the ReadyBoost storage device.

According to Microsoft's Robert Hensing, "[ReadyBoost] uses an AES 128 key that is generated once per OS start (the data in the file on the thumb drive is encrypted with this key) . . . the key isn't persisted anywhere (i.e. it lives in memory only) and so apparently when you sleep / hibernate - the key goes bye bye and thus you need to rebuild your 2GB ReadyBoost cache on your USB disk when you resume again."

Hensing continues, "Vista realizes that it needs to regenerate the ReadyBoost cache as soon as it wakes up and loads the USB drivers and realizes the ReadyBoost drive is plugged in and it starts helpfully doing this as soon as it can . . . ya know - while the OS is trying to page all that memory back into my 2GB of system RAM as well and generally restore the OS to a working state . . . sigh . . ."

The changes made to ReadyBoost in SP1 will ensure that cache data is reused during S3/S4 sleep so that 'Readyboost.sfcache' is not repopulated on resume.

Anyone having problems with very, very slow internet connection after installing Quicktime 7.2 on Vista? I had to reinstalled a few times for troubleshooting and find out the maybe Qt 7.2 is the culprit.