Vista - Difference between Feb CTP & Checked/Debug

What is the difference between the Feb CTP and the Checked/Debug version that
was released last week? They both have the same build #5308.

Tony

I think this article explains it - unstaged and staged installations:
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.p...stagedunstaged

BTW, that article is useless to you if I'm barking up the wrong tree on this
one $

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--- Original message follows ---
"TonyK" <TonyK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsF7A3626-CC24-4516-AAA8-01D264E5A968@microsoft.com...
> What is the difference between the Feb CTP and the Checked/Debug version
> that
> was released last week? They both have the same build #5308.
>
> Tony

Tony;
Unless you are a developer, you probably want to stay away from the
Checked/Debug versions.
I do not know much about them, but from what I understand, they have more
code used by developers.
But that code causes performance issues (by design), since performance is
not the intent.
Unless you need the Checked/Debug version, you have nothing to gain and
something to lose by installing that version.

This tells a little bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevToo...s/chkblds.mspx

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"TonyK" <TonyK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsF7A3626-CC24-4516-AAA8-01D264E5A968@microsoft.com...
> What is the difference between the Feb CTP and the Checked/Debug version
> that
> was released last week? They both have the same build #5308.
>
> Tony