It was back to XP for me today. I just could not take a few of the nagging issues I have been having with Vista on my Dell D800.
One of the problems seems to be related to the Nvidia GeForce Go 4400 video or more specifically the beta video driver. I could not un-dock without disabling my secondary monitor or the system would lock HARD and require me to physically turn it off and reboot. Even if I did disable the secondary monitor, the next time I rebooted it would go back to 'mirror' mode and show the same thing on both screens.
The most annoying problem was just general slowness during boot, login, logout, and shutdown. I never did time it, but I would guess that it was taking 1 to 2 minutes to login, about 1 min to logout, 2 to 3 minutes to shutdown, and up to 5 minutes to boot and login. (Login took MUCH when I did it soon after booting.)
I still have it on an old GW Tablet and it is working fine (still slow). I posted my problems, but I still need to write up some more bug reports.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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