Need help with Vista Beta 2

[FURiON]

I am planning to instal vista beta 2 on my comp. But I've heard i cant instal other regular softwares when i use vista?

more light on this would be appreciated.. thanks in adv

[MadKad]

I would have thought that yes it is true in some cases as alot of software out there have to be made to work and be fully tested on the os before using, if you have another hard drive mabe testing it on there and finding what software will work your self

[Stelf]

I would also do what MK said, if you do don't forget to tell us how it goes

[Thisn2s]

I've seen it on a lot of screenshots, but am anxious to hear it from a fellow user. It probably won't let itself work on some programs, but some other programs should bypass the OS requirement, although it'll have some system confusion.

I also heard that it eats more laptop power than XP does. If you're trying it on a laptop, do tell us!

[FURiON]

I tired to install it on another drive... and it corrupted my main xp installation

[carol]

Somethings wil not run, but most software should... The bigger problem will be Drivers.. ensure that driver support is available for all your hardware...

One suggestion (if you just want to try it) is to use Virtual Server from Microsoft... It's the high end version of Virtual PC but it's free... Just google Virtual Server 2005 R2. You should have no problem installing Vista inside that and running it on top of XP for testing, also the drivers should mostly work for you..

One thing to keep an eye out for are the specs of Vista.. 512MB RAM minimum, 15GB HDD Space, a Decent Video card... this is the first time you can't just grab an old junker and install the OS to test it.