So, what are the latest problems I’m having with the ‘business final’ release of Vista?

You know, I really love Windows Vista. It’s the operating system upgrade we had to have, it’s been a damned long time coming, and it has tons of great new features that you’ll love too, once you see and try them for yourself, whether you’re all anti-Vista right now for whatever reason.

I just wish I loved the Vista final release a bit more, and my experiences have only served to confirm that the current final release really is just RC3 and not an RTM at all.

I’ve been having this weird problem after waking up from hibernation. Not only does it sometimes just crash, telling me that Windows has recovered from a ‘system error’ (or whatever their terminology is), but the colors on screen go a bit lighter.

Why is that?! I’m using an Intel 945GM ‘Aero capable’ chipset with 224mb of memory (shared from my 2Gb of RAM) in my dual-core Tablet PC, which has that little ‘Windows Vista Capable’ sticker on it, and it’s a problem I never experienced with RC1. It almost makes me want RC1 back, although on second thoughts, Vista final ‘RC3’ really is a lot better.

To fix this problem, where the taskbar and everything else on screen seems a few degrees of color lighter, I either have to change the colour scheme from 32-bit down to 16-bit which takes me out of Vista Aero and back into the very similar looking Vista Basic, and then change it back to 32-bit again, or I just need to reboot the system.

I’ve done a search on Google and no-one else seems to have reported this problem as yet, but personally I find it incredibly annoying, especially as I never experienced it with RC1.

I’ve also tried going into sleep mode instead of hibernate mode to see if that fixed the problem when my system ‘woke up’ again, but the dreaded ‘Windows has recovered from a system error’ seems to strike again. At least, it did for me.

Sleep and hibernate are two incredibly important features for me, as I use them, and especially hibernate more so than sleep, on a daily basis, if not several times a day.

For some reason this problem didn’t appear at first, so maybe it’s because I’ve loaded something onto my computer, but I haven’t loaded anything more than when I had RC1, and indeed there’s actually probably less stuff on Vista now than before because I still haven’t gotten around to installing every last thing that I had on my RC1 system.

And drivers… Windows Update is supposed to have 19,500 of them, with plenty more on the way. Well, manufacturers haven’t got much time left – they’d better have them all ready (or as many as possible) for Vista’s real release date of January 30.

Let’s just hope that version of Vista is truly better than the so-called ‘final release’ of Vista many people are using today. I don’t want to see the Jan 30 version being just an RC4!

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Entry was posted on Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 at 8:29 am under Microsoft, Opinion, Technology, Vista.

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