>Exactly. I agree. I am now running as a standard user. Works great.

Interesting.
But how do you know anything "works great" after less than a day of use?????
I mean, have you tried everything where you might (unknowingly) need administrator rights?

I'm running a personal campaign to question anything said to work great. Especially when said after ONLY hours of use.



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>>The biggest issue I had with the install is that it wasn't very clear that the first account being setup was the Admin account. I had to read the dialog twice to realize that. I agree with you, it needs to be clearer about the Admin account and then walk the user through setting up a standard user.
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>>>The install itself only took 30 minutes, vs up to 2 hours with Windows XP. Far fewer questions to answer than XP.
>>>
>>>The only glitches when the install was complete were that my wireless nic wasn't recognized and neither was the sound card built into my ASUS motherboard. After hooking up a patch cable and hitting Windows Update, both drivers were pulled back and without a reboot starting working.
>>>
>>>During the install of my various apps, I ran into two issues:
>>>- Acrobat has only a beta version of a reader for Vista, thought it works fine
>>>- the Cisco VPN software I had doesn't work with Vista, had to find a beta version that works.
>>>- for some reason the Cisco SSL WebVPN won't install and run, but I can use the above software
>>>
>>>Now that I am up and running the free AVG anti-virus 7.5 software give an error when logging in for the first time. I can start it manually and it works fine. Overall, not too bad for a new OS.
>>>
>>>It runs about as fast as XP did on my AMD 64 -3000 with 512 megs of RAM. Menus and the deskop are snappier, but there is a statelyness to how it runs.
>>>
>>>Things I like:
>>>- man the sidebar with the gadgets is neat. Having a clock, calendar, cpu meter, news feeds just all hanging around updating, instead of having to visit several sites.
>>>- just pleasant, refined look to everything. Fonts, graphics
>>>- can run in non-admin mode! And things work and prompt if they need admin privs
>>>
>>>Things I don't like:
>>>- the Media player shortcut icon is an ugly white and orange triangle
>>>- though Vista supports running in a non-admin mode, it doesn't take the newbie user through creating an admin and non-admin account
>>>- despite having a black taskbar, tons of windows have a baby blue border. Arg!