FusionXN1 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Yes, BETA 2 keys work ;) Also i have had 3 blue screens with this build so far - don't know why it is over guild wars and half life 2. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlerner Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Is this build a bit more usable on a pc with 288MB Ram (P3 1.4Ghz, SDRam PC133, Riva TNT2, but i don't care about the blingbling stuff like Aero) It may run but you'd need at least 512 MB and that's absolute bare minimum, 1 GB for optimal performance but even then you should probably just not bother with it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhMuffin Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Yes, BETA 2 keys work ;) Also i have had 3 blue screens with this build so far - don't know why it is over guild wars and half life 2. Excellent news, (about the beta 2 keys, not the blue screens). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grope for Luna Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Whoever decided on that VILE blue for Windows Mail is either coloured blind or sick, plain up sick. He he... I've been bitching about that for ages. :whistle: Anyone tried this on a ASRock 939Dual yet? Does the networking work????? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdesmus Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 What hardware are you running? Here ya go, all in the picture... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhMuffin Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Here ya go, all in the picture... Oh wow, I'm hoping for a quick install too. Shame that Vista only gives you a 3.7... The rating system is still quite useless. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linkinfamous Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Oh wow, I'm hoping for a quick install too. Shame that Vista only gives you a 3.7... The rating system is still quite useless. Why? His processor is a few generations old. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalx Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 hmm sounds like nothing really worth wasteing my time downloading this build for ill wait till RC1 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Michael Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 hmm sounds like nothing really worth wasteing my time downloading this build for ill wait till RC1 Honestly this build is a vast improvment over 5472. This to me is the first build that is actually usable as an os over xp. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoLdFuSi0n Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 just would like to see better drivers put out from nvidia Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587820994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randolph Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 hmm sounds like nothing really worth wasteing my time downloading this build for ill wait till RC1 Amen to that. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Troll Subscriber¹ Posted August 26, 2006 Subscriber¹ Share Posted August 26, 2006 My desktop still has beta 2 on it...mainly since I've been out of town on business for 5 weeks. However I'll be installing this build when I get home next week. Pulling it off connect right now courtesy of my hotel's free wireless :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821012 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagamer34 Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Why? His processor is a few generations old. Processor rating shouldn't be by generations, but instead by performance. No one here is going to say that a P4 Prescott @ 2.4Ghz is the same as a P4 Northwood @ 2.4Ghz. The Northwood trashes the Prescott clock for clock but it's the older of the 2. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdesmus Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 My general impression...I am very impressed. It just keeps getting faster (Y) Overall definitely more responsive, quicker boot/shutdown, media center looks a lot more polished (also a lot more responsive), I like the new RSS widget and the new weather widget, ...I am just quite happy with this build. Off to explore a bit more. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Big improvement over the last build, I can smell final soon :) Good job MS! (Y) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 This is without a doubt the best build by far. The performance improvements are worth the download and install. :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexcyn Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Works perfect on my HP Pavillion dv2000ca. The only issue is the GeForce 6150 driver - doesn't work that well as I had to find a hacked one. :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaramonga Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 I like the new RSS widget and the new weather widget All of which are available now for XP......... :rolleyes: Cosmetics!! I can see nothing in VISTA that makes me want to switch?.........seriously.......I cant believe all the 'hype' surrounding this OS! It does nothing I cant do today! (there's my Microcrap catchphrase) ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiwai Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 I've installed it as well. Glass seems to be default set to be a bit more blueish... Now I have to figure out why my network connection is so flakey on this build... I can get to some sites, but not others... This build took me just under 24minutes to install. A major improvement over 5472 I'd say its gone more turquoise. wow...you must use both wordpad and the add font dialog quite a bit to care that much One would assume that if one wished to add a font, they would have simply dragged and dropped the fonts into the font folder rather than using a convoluted add-font dialogue. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Post-It Note Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Resizing is STILL slow and ugly. I don't understand how they can accept black bars to show when you resize things like media player or white bars when you resize other windows like windows explorer. And the flickering that happens when you resize windows like windows dvd maker! I can see nothing in VISTA that makes me want to switch?.........seriously.......I cant believe all the 'hype' surrounding this OS! For someone complaining about cosmetics, you sure make a big deal about not "seeing" the things you want in Vista ;). What ARE you looking for? New built-in applications? Animations? Or a whole new way of working with windows? Is the increased security not worth the switch? The increased performance in window handling? New audio and network stacks for increased performance? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
efishta Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 He he... I've been bitching about that for ages. :whistle: Anyone tried this on a ASRock 939Dual yet? Does the networking work????? I'm about to install it and let you know, but off hand I can tell you that on the previous build, much like your experience, networking did not work for me, with either XP drivers or the Vista drivers off the ULI Integrated 2.20 drivers, but if you put your system on standby and then bring it back from standby, my router is recognized and the computer connects to the internet. It probably sends some sort of wake up signal to the PCI devices and it's doing the trick for now. Yes it's a pain, but I'm not using Vista as my main OS anyway right now. Either way, NIC cards you can get for $10-20 and they work with standard network chipsets which have generic drivers available for every OS. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiwai Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 You do realise that Apple recycled a lot of icons from Mac OS 1 through to Mac OS 9.2 right? Apple had redone the whole interface for Mac OS X because they had scrapped the whole code base from Mac OS 9.2 and started on a clean slate, and moved to a Unix-based OS. Since they had to recompile everything anyway, they had the chance to refresh everything. Unlike Microsoft who are only modifying their previous versions of Windows. Even that is a bit of an exagguration; they replaced the DisplayPostscript with Display PDF; they took out the 'manual management' pieces from Classic and renamed it carbon; alot of crap that is in MacOS X is merely a rehash of what was already in NeXT Step, except changed around a bit to fit into the whole "Mac way of doing things". The first version of MacOS X was merely Darwin + DisplayPost script with a desktop written in Cocoa using many parts of from NeXT Step: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
herime Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 The boot screen in 5536 is the same? any people can post the new shutdown sound of this build?? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiwai Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 So now that they've updated the icons in the Control Panel, we're bitching about the other 2 old things? :blink: This from the same people that said MS wouldn't fix the icons in the CP. :rolleyes: Na, the assumption is this; if there are 2 visible things that haven't been fixed/updated, there must be more around in Windows that could cause problems at a later date. To which I said; Microsoft is a big multinational company, their focus is on improving the important things of Windows - the guts of it, the kernel, the API's, the drivers - all those important things, on their 'give a **** o metre' , a font dialogue and wordpad/notepad rank pretty low on it. Oh, and btw, Services for UNIX is available in Windows Vista Ultimate, it is a full first class citizen next to win32, so there is no performance issues, so all those notepad whiners, you can scoot off to use Vi, which has been around for 25+ years :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Frothy Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 No Build 5536 on my nForce 4 Based Computer (Microsoft says its an nForce 4 Issue) :huh: I get this BSOD when installation is copying files @ about 20 odd % Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/489661-build-5536-released/page/8/#findComment-587821189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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