Vista 64-bit 5728 works quite well

ALTHOUGH the Vole itself advised yours truly to uninstall the last version of the Vista, we could not rest in peace till we tried to install the Vista 64 on a clean drive.

You can see here what happened when we wanted to update from a 32-bit RC1 build 5600 to 32-bit RC1 build 5728. It was a complete failure and waste of time.

Well we downloaded the 64 bit version of Vista RC1 build 5728 and decided to try to install it on on a clean drive. This was our first attempt to play with 64-bit Vista, and guess what it worked out perfectly.

Installation finished incredibly fast, around forty minutes if not less, and 64-bit Vista installed most of our devices, including sound and graphic and two LAN cards but we still could not make the SiL 3114 RAID to work. There will be a driver sooner or later, we are sure.

We didn't have any crashes so far, everything works well and we didn't have a single Windows Explorer crash. This happened with the RC1 5600 every once and a while. Not with this one. We have a few screenshots for you and just look at the memory consumption. It got better and, trust me, there is something devilish about the vole.

The most bizarre thing that I noticed is that Vista tends to mess up my Wlan router and somehow convince it to work only internally but not as a WAN device and this causes the other machine in the lab not to work until I turn Vista down and do the release/renew IP address procedure manually. We will still have to dig deeper to see what is going on. ?