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Old 06-09-2006, 04:38 AM   #1
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Cool MA2.6 and VISTA

This has possibly already been discussed, but am wondering if anyone has tested MA with Vista?
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Old 06-09-2006, 07:02 AM   #2
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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.
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Old 06-09-2006, 07:30 AM   #3
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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.
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Old 06-09-2006, 08:51 AM   #4
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Dunno. They didn't change the file system like they originally planned to.
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Old 06-09-2006, 08:59 AM   #5
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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.
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Old 06-09-2006, 09:09 AM   #6
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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).
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Old 06-09-2006, 09:26 AM   #7
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Unfortunately they don't go that far and Google hasn't helped either...so it will remain a mystery for now at least.
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Old 06-09-2006, 09:29 AM   #8
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I guess you could install Vista and then fire up TrueImage and see if you get an error message like:

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Old 06-09-2006, 09:35 AM   #9
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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 ??
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Old 06-09-2006, 10:35 AM   #10
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Update...much scratching of heads going on and so far XP version 3.1 Vista v3.2...but not sure.
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Old 06-09-2006, 04:14 PM   #11
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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.
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Old 06-09-2006, 04:52 PM   #12
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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.
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Old 06-09-2006, 07:53 PM   #13
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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.
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Old 06-10-2006, 06:58 AM   #14
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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.
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Old 06-14-2006, 12:52 PM   #15
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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.
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Old 06-14-2006, 07:32 PM   #16
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Same here.
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