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Ex_Brit 06-09-2006 04:38 AM

MA2.6 and VISTA
 
This has possibly already been discussed, but am wondering if anyone has tested MA with Vista?

feldon34 06-09-2006 07:02 AM

Depends if Microsoft broke something. You could download Vista and try it. :) Got time to download a 4GB file? ;)

When XP came out, people were asking if the Aquarium worked on it. The Aquarium actually worked on all the early betas of XP up to 1 1/2 years before XP came out. ;)

Ex_Brit 06-09-2006 07:30 AM

I've already downloaded it and burned the ISO to a DVD. Holding off installing it as I'm about to install a new hard drive and use my current one as a standby slave drive.
Wasn't too sure about installing Vista on my already prepped partition as I'll be using Acronis True Image to clone the entire hard drive over to the new one. Not sure if Acronis might object to the presence of Vista.

feldon34 06-09-2006 08:51 AM

Dunno. They didn't change the file system like they originally planned to.

Ex_Brit 06-09-2006 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by feldon30
Dunno. They didn't change the file system like they originally planned to.

According to Pro Networks it (Beta 2) does use a "different" NTFS file system.

feldon34 06-09-2006 09:09 AM

Are they calling it NTFS 5.2 (Win2k/XP use NTFS 5.1 I think)? NTFS 6?

WinFS is a separate project that will probably never catch on outside of web servers and enterprise environments (OS add-ons rarely do).

Ex_Brit 06-09-2006 09:26 AM

Unfortunately they don't go that far and Google hasn't helped either...so it will remain a mystery for now at least.

feldon34 06-09-2006 09:29 AM

I guess you could install Vista and then fire up TrueImage and see if you get an error message like:

http://www.myfonts.com/images/family...a-nelly-nf.gif

Ex_Brit 06-09-2006 09:35 AM

LOL...I think I'll wait until I'm all setup with the drives where they should be. I posed the question over at Pro Networks...re: NTFS ??

Ex_Brit 06-09-2006 10:35 AM

Update...much scratching of heads going on and so far XP version 3.1 Vista v3.2...but not sure.

Philsings 06-09-2006 04:14 PM

LOL I was just coming to the forums to see if any knew why my MA 2.6 didn't work with Vista? I downloaded the Vista Beta last night installed it this morning only to find that half my old screensavers dont work. I miss my MA 2.6 :( I'm not very techinical so I don't know what went wrong but to answer the main question (for me at least) NONE of my SereneScreen savers work.

Ex_Brit 06-09-2006 04:52 PM

feldon30,

The powers that be have ordained that Vista's NTFS is 3.1...same as XP, however Vista permits it to behave differently. How, I haven't the faintest idea.

feldon34 06-09-2006 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Philsings
LOL I was just coming to the forums to see if any knew why my MA 2.6 didn't work with Vista? I downloaded the Vista Beta last night installed it this morning only to find that half my old screensavers dont work. I miss my MA 2.6 :( I'm not very techinical so I don't know what went wrong but to answer the main question (for me at least) NONE of my SereneScreen savers work.

Welcome to the forums, Philsings!

I haven't heard of incompatibilies, but they changed a lot in Vista so we'll see. Hopefully Prolific is setting up a Vista test computer with the free Public Beta 2.

drfish 06-10-2006 06:58 AM

They worked fine for me. However they don't install themselves into the right place so you probably have to move them to make them selectable from the list, but I haven't gotten to that yet.

bugsymcd24 06-14-2006 12:52 PM

Hey, I am testing Vista, and Have all three screensavers loaded (goldfish, sharks and MA 2.6) and have run across no problems, all work well and smoothly.

Ex_Brit 06-14-2006 07:32 PM

Same here.


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