Well….. all I can say is – don’t expect it to be quick…..

Admittedly, I am running it on a P4 1.7Ghz Machine – but there’s been nothing else running for the last 3 hours – and it’s got 512 Mb RAM allocated to the VM – so it shouldn’t have a problem with that….. it just takes ages to complete. I’ve been looking at this for the last 45 minutes…

The progress bar gets to the end, and then starts again….. over and over and over…… I’m sure it’ll be lovely when it’s finished….. I can’t wait!!

I’ll let you know what it’s like in the morning……

On a related note, the memory upgrade for my laptop has been dispatched – I’m buying 512Mb each month (this and next) to upgrade it from 256 to 1Gb – which hopefully will make Vista a more enjoyable experience for all concerned!! Once it arrives I’ll actually start the upgrade process on that – based on this experience, I think the memory might be a killer right now!!

Well, I’ve finally downloaded the ISO from MSDN and started loading it in a Virtual PC VM for a first test. So far, the install seems to be running very smoothly… I’ve been asked where to install it to – and I can play around with the partition sizes etc. I’ve been asked for a Product Key, and that’s about it…..

I’ll be intrigued to see if it picks up my UK keyboard, and how it works out my timezone etc.

If it all goes well, I’m thinking of making my laptop at home a dual boot machine – I have a second hard drive that goes in the multi-bay slot that I currently use for backups….. I might just vape that and try it out as well – to see what performance is like on a dedicated machine rather that a VPC….. I suspect that I’ll have to bite the bullet and buy some more RAM though – the 256Mb I have at the moment is likely to kill performance more that anything.

Plenty more to come in the coming days / weeks I suspect…. 🙂