Thu, Jul 28 2005 1:37 PM Erwyn van der Meer

Installation experience with Window Vista

This is my first post from within Internet Explorer 7.0 running on Windows Vista. It is my account of the installation process of Windows Vista.

10:16 - Finished burning the 2.4 GB ISO image to DVD. Windows XP Autoplay offered to start the setup.exe on the new DVD.
10:17 - Started the installation from within Windows XP. I only had to answer three questions: 1) Where to install, 2) The product key and 3) The computer name.
10:18 - Windows Vista started installing from within Windows XP. No further user interaction was needed. I took this picture:
Installing Windows Vista
10:25 - First reboot. My Windows XP installation takes two minutes to shut down ;(
10:27 - First Windows Vista boot. The boot screen looks nasty:
First Windows Vista boot
10:28 - The installation continued. The following screen was shown for quite some time. Note that the progress bar didn't make any sense. It filled and cleared about once every minute.
Installation of Windows Vista continues
10:48 - Second reboot. Same boot screen, but then followed by a black screen, followed by my monitor going into stand-by. Hmmm, not good I thought. Then I remembered something similar when installing an alpha build of Longhorn. I turned on my secondary monitor, and fortunately the installation was continuing over there:
Installation of Windows Vista continues on secondary monitor
10:51 - The installation is complete. Windows Vista is running interactively and I can switch the display back to my primary monitor.

So all in all a good setup experience. The process is much smoother than installing Windows XP for instance. Subtracting the two reboot time, installing Windows Vista took 32 minutes with only minor user interaction at the start required. On to my first explorations within Windows Vista in my next blog post...

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# re: Installation experience with Window Vista

Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:18 AM by Matt

I'm in the process of downloading Vista. Is it required to have a DVD drive?

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# re: Installation experience with Window Vista

Monday, June 26, 2006 7:43 AM by matman

Microsoft is just making money on a so called operating system that would only be supported for more then five years at most then want you to spend more of your hard earned money. It will have more loop holes then you can poke a stick at and you will have to buy one disk for one computer and notify Microsuck for any hardware changes.
Finally Windows should go in the bin not "Recycled bin" never to be seen again. :) :) Go linux,unix,os2 and any other real supported operating system.

# re: Installation experience with Window Vista

Monday, September 04, 2006 12:55 AM by PinkBlue Austria

It's great to have Microsoft in our daily Life. It's almost all over the machines nowadays, it's wherever you go, and it seems people can't live without it anymore. I've used it and I'm used to it. But the only one I never understand from them is they build too much floor for their buildings, without even having a well finished one. We also paid money for these, but instead developing more the System they intend to develop more Systems. Guys, there's also what they called Transformation. If the looks is the Question, why don't you just transform the XP's to Vista Style instead, fix more the security issues, and concentrate more with this well paid Operating System, and that's it. I know you mean business, but your latest product is a disappointment. Have a Good Life, God bless!!!!

# re: Installation experience with Window Vista

Friday, August 03, 2007 6:06 PM by CarryPizers

That installation screen is nice! i gone to the next scren and it had continued there. I bother that i  got Windows Longhorn for every day !!!!!!