Vista RTM: First Impressions

Vista RTM: First Impressions

November 23rd, 2006 // 5:11 pm @ Amar

Just installed Windows Vists RTM on my laptop and I am impressed by the ease of setup. The setup experience was much better, faster than any previous Windows version.

One good thing I liked is the ability to install without a key and then add it later on within the grace period. Really fantastic if you ask me. Now I can enjoy Vista for a week before we get our VLK keys, and then pop in the VLK keys as soon as available and activate my installation.

Another thing I noticed, was the driver support. I have a Dell Latitude D800 with 2 GB ram. It is quite an old Laptop, but still it did not detect two devices. 1. Base System Device ( I have absolutely no idea what this is referring to ). and 2. Texas Instruments UltraMedia Smart Card Adapter. I would have assumed that it would have auto detected and installed drivers for this old laptop, but now I have to dig up Vista compatible drivers for these two just for the peace of mind that all components are running in peak shape. Not that I will be using that Smart Card slot anyways. Never needed to use it.

I do miss the up folder button on the file explorer. I was very much used to it. Guess will have to get used to this new way.

It automatically installed and started Windows Defender for me, which is nice, but I am not very confident on how efficient it is now. I did not have a very satisfied experience last time using Windows Defender on XP. So will give it a try and see.

Anyways will hunt for all my favourite utilities which I can run on Vista and get this system up to date. Will update on my progress in a seperate post.

Category : Windows