I was playing with Vista RC2 on a new desktop machine the last couple of days, I have to say, not too shabby. The number of UAC messages really decreased to something far less annoying and even when they did pop it seemed somehow less annoying. Much more “perfomant” than the last rev I loaded as well.
Actually I only had two issues with the machine. The first was that AVG free got stuck thinking its signatures were out of date but weren’t and telling it to update just resulted in it saying everything was fine. A reboot solved that. The second was an issue with an HP Photosmart printer. That was downright annoying. The HP install kept telling me that you couldn’t run the driver installation using “RUNAS”. I was using an actual admin level ID but had UAC enabled and tried various things and then finally just decided to turn UAC off to get it done… No such luck, even with UAC off the HP install would still pop the RUNAS error. I ended up just digging through the folder to find the actual driver files and loaded those through the normal device manager discover process.
I have to say the new Photo Gallery software which I had never seen before was pretty cool. That isn’t an item I would really look at on my own PCs normally but if I am helping someone else out I tend to try out anything I think they might do to see how it shows up. I may actually end up using that myself now that I have seen it.
