Well I tried a fresh installation of the non-server version of Vista and
everything worked fine. Looks like they still have some bugs with Longhorn (and
I really hate the new non-Aero interface... looks like Gnome on Linux!)
"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Nah - try a fresh installation - must have been a small glitch in the setup
> process 
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> "Mike Lowery" <selfspam@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
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>> I've got a Dell Precision M70 with the Nvidia x86 Vista beta drivers loaded.
>> For some reason I can't run the Performance & Tools applet in the Control
>> Panel. It comes back saying something along the lines of "page failed to
>> load" and then Windows Explorer crashes. Because of this, I can't get Aero
>> to turn on since there is no performance rating for my machine (no xml files
>> have been generated.)
>>
>> Is this a known problem?
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