Well, I haven't posted here for awhile and decided it was about time to post here again. I downloaded and installed 5472 yesterday with very minimal hasstle (I always do a full format of my Vista partition, thats the hasstle). Since being in 5472 (posting from it right now), I have noticed some things are different (I could never get 5456 installed, so my last build was 5384). The cursors have been replaced, some screens updated. Overall, there are some great new features with the build.

Installation took about 50 minutes (from within Windows). My installation always gets hung up on the updates part (every build!) - I always choose no updates (wireless drivers apparently aren't loaded durning setup) and it always tries to find updates. Anyhow, I noticed one new reboot that wasn't there before, and it took a little longer for setup to detect the proper screen resolution however I can report that once Vista is setup - booting into it is much quick than before. Its definetly the fastest of all the OSes I've used - thats a great new feature.

Vista still hasn't been able to find my sound drivers (other builds have been able to) but thats not really a problem to me, I usually leave sound turned off! I'ved noticed that the Flip 3D has been updated and it is much quick (and more pleasant to look at) than before - even on my PC (I don't have a very good graphics card). Also I've noticed that some times the scroll bars turn black and become unuseable but this seems to go away but relaunching the application (its a pain).

My main complaint for this build is that some of my programs that have worked on previous builds - no longer work in 5472. No big deal though - its a Beta OS and I have XP installed for the programs I need. It really is an improvement over 5384. Check out our Photo Gallery for 5472!