I'm curious to know if programs that are out for WindowsXP can be installed on Vista. I'm not a beta tester, so I don't have the chance to check for myself...

Thanks in advance.

Most do. Some check for a Windows version number and abort the install. In that case, you can just run them in compatability mode for Xp.

firefox installed fine for me. Which is funny because IE7 acts almost the same as firefox (even the error i got with it) which is weird.. either way its funyn because i still choose to use firefox. HA

NOD32, Norton Anti-Virus Corp v10, microsoft word 2003, firefox v1.0.6, pinball games, powerDVD 6 deluxe, win ISO v5.3, a few others also worked fine. (some of them you have to manually install.)


edit: NOD32 v2.50+,

PerfectDisk v7.0.40, FruityLoops Studio Producer v5.0.2, ISOBuster Pro v1.8, MSN Messenger v7.0, Nero Ultra Edition v6.6.0.8, and QuickTime Pro v6.5.2 also work great.

Mcafee wouldn't install. Even with the compatibility changed.
Does norton work fine on it? Im a bit scared having ZERO virus protection.
I know the way Vista and XP run are very different but if it works good, i might try Norton again. It used to lagg my computers really bad though..


so far i have these installed perfect:

Stardock object dock, winamp pro, Adobe photoshop cs 2, Edonkey 2005 pro. MSN messenger 7. Yahoo messenger 7 beta, Also the quicktime pro.


I have more Installed. Just cant think of all them right now.
Soon i'll Try Google's Picasa 2.

There is ACT for Vista available AFAIK...

okay i am a noob. What does ACT and AFAIK stand for?

AFAIK - As far as I know
ACT - Application Compatibility Toolkit

BTW What can you see on beta download place? I am not sure if beta.microsoft.com is normal way to download or if you are using connect???

i have starwars battlefront that works, winrar, azareus, maya, 3dmark2005, manged to get the ati control panel working too

Partition Magic 8 will not run.

Alcohol 120% didn't work for me. had some registration errors.

Not sure if this will work for Vista, but: http://www.msfn.org/board/Remove-Installer-OS-Check-t51694.html.

yeah i couldnt install it either, can anyone help me? This is really the only reason (oh and a bit the sound issues with sound blaster cards) that im wanting to go back to XP. Alcohol is the program i always use to burn images and emulate backups of my games. It would be a realy pain if this didnt work!

oh i forgot to say that the OS check remover didnt seem to work for me. Just flashes the cmd sreen and then goes again.

But how is it with drivers???
On mine, the NVIDIA Setup-Routine closes itself after a second...

Do you know, if there are some Graphik and Mainboard (Forceware) Drivers available for Windows Vista or Longhorn (I think these ones for Longhorn work with Vista too!)????

Greetz
Down_under

GRRR! Vista is really ennoying me! ive got build 5231 and everytime i try to install anything usefull, including vista drivers it keeps saying "Access Denied" even though i am logged in as the admin! Does any one know how to stop this? i think if we could stop this we would be able to install programs like alcohol as well as all others, as this 'access denied' issue seems to be the underlying one. If you look carefully and read the details its normally the cause of the problem. Another example of this is when you try to install AVG, it trys to enter something into the registry or putsome .dll file somewhere and ... 'access denied'
Please help me solve this!

Hey you reckon we could get some feedback here? Or have i violated some rule somewhere?

The problem is very simple, UAP
In the Vista build there is only 1 Account with Full Admin Rights, and that is the built in one.
Any Account made in the admin group is not a real admin account. It is a restricted account.
Try and turn of the USP in the Start Menu. If that does not work then log in to the built in
admin account and do the install from there.

nah doesent work gunsmoke.. already toyed with that

so far i have got to work:

Battlefield 2
Prince of persia sands of time
**** NFO Viewer
MSN Messenger 7.5 beta
Teamspeak
FlashFXP
Winrar 3.5
Emule
NEro Burning ROM 7 - though there was errors on install, after reboot it worked fine. lot of errors on install tho!
DVDSanta
Video LAN player
BSplayer
Azureus Bit torrent client
Java
Quicktime
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (PS9) (image ready disables glass effects if you run it, though it works fine. Also update service will not run but doesent stop you using the suite obviously)
Creative Control Panel


Plus a few other bits and bobs not really worth listing. I also know from a source that Pirates Of the Burning Sea MMO runs on Vista also, and i expect Steam works fine too if POBS works.

Are you on the built in Admin account or did you make a account in the Admin group.
As I said anything made in the admin group is a resticted account. There is only 1 admin
account on Vista and that is the built in one.
What I do for when the install finished is to change the Built in Admin acoount to my name
then I use this reg tweak to have it appear on the log on screen, this is the only way to
ensure you are using the built in admin account.
Reg Tewak

change the red text to the name you want to appear.

built in, not created any other logins as yet. UAP settings seems to have no effect. its not all program installs, just some.

Of note is that despite the errors on reboot the applications work fine, nero threw up so many errors i got sick of clicking the mouse on [ OK ]

but it works fine,..

One thing of note is the update service in photoshop would not start .. as it must have been missing some dll it needed or some part of the service wasnt running. However, after a few days it now seems to have corrected itself and runs -- not that the update service prevents you from running photoshop.

i wondered if perhaps the permissions errors where being thrown up regardless, and that the reg entries and dll registrations where actually taking place though vista is reporting otherwise... possibility anyway.

Next time i install something that does this ill check the registry before and after to see if thats the case!

Hello!

I have installed PowerDVD 7.3 deluxe on Vista-6.0.6000.16384-ru-x64. This player works very-very slowly, the time interval between choosing videofile and beginning playback is 25 s (I checked it) . And some videocontent (VIDEO-TS folders) playback without a sound. The sound begins just only I click mouse on the navigational slider. All options are standard.

Do anyone have the same problem, or I'm the only one who have the "curve hands"?)))