Ok Vista beta testers-question ?

[Big Booger]

All OSes are much slower on older hardware. All software has bugs. Every time an OS is released it doesn't support all legacy soft or hardware. It's the same thing every time, usually there are good reasons for this like increased security or functions. Reworked XP, like XP was reworked 2000, like 2000 was reworked NT? I don't understand your misgivings.

WINDOWS 2000
Minimum Requirements
Computer/Processor 133 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU.
Memory At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM; more memory generally improves responsiveness.
Hard Disk 2 GB with 650 MB free space.
CPU Support Windows 2000 Professional supports single and dual CPU systems.
Drive CD-ROM or DVD drive.
Display VGA or higher resolution monitor.
Keyboard Required.

WINDOWS XP PRO
Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional
•

PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended
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128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
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1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
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Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
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CD-ROM or DVD drive
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Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device

WINDOWS VISTA
Windows Vista Minimum Supported System Requirements
Processor
800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1
System Memory
512 MB
GPU
SVGA (800x600)
Graphics Memory
-
HDD
20 GB
HDD Free Space
15 GB
Optical Drive
CD-ROM drive2
Audio
-
Internet
-

That's quite a jump. And that's the bare minimum.

How do you go from 1.5 GB of hard disk space to 15GB???? And from 128MB of ram to 512MB???? And from a processor speed of 233mhz to 800mhz????

Please tell me why an Operating System needs 15GB of space? And at the bare minimum you don't get the aero effects as well.

[egghead]

yes moving to Windows Vista as soon as openvpn works like XP.....

dam, are you really going to miss out on Directx 10 and the games????

Egghead

[egghead]

yes moving to Windows Vista as soon as openvpn works like XP.....

got openvpn working fine and love the OS.

only problem left is that I do not know how to add all my outlook messages and settings from the other hard drived to the new outlook in vista.

once i can do that i will no longer need to reboot to other hard drive to check my mail.

[PIPER]

I'm with Rev on this one.....