Vista 64-bit 5728 works quite well

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. ?