A quick post to mention that
Windows Vista build 5456 was released a few days ago, if your running vista download the latest build from
MS Connect or your preffered source and update/upgrade/reformat-reinstall/go-nutty-nuts! If you know anything about Windows builds, this is a major new build (thats over 70 builds of Windows since the release of
Windows Vista Beta 2 which was build 5384.4!).
Recall how I mentioned that
newer builds of Vista have a toned down UAP system? Well this build is one of those funky builds, along with several fixes to the DWM subsystem(you may even notice its a whole lot faster now:D), regional & timezone fixes and many misc problems reported. Existing product codes for build 5384.4 (atleast it should!).
Other Updates from
AeroXP post include:
- Windows Aero Mouse Icon-set
- Listview is back after the betatesters devoted the past 8 months toward complaining about it not being there.
- XBox360 does not work with 5456 as a media center extender
- UAC has been tweaked to not be as demanding of the user as it was in Beta 2
- The system clock is no longer butchered by Vista when the timezone is changed.
- many more bugfixes
Enjoy! Right now because not many are downloading I'm reaching 300-400Kbps on average with peaks at 600Kbps for short periods, so grab it before the entire world cause another round of
bandwidth spike because of Vista!
Beta 2 is still ontrack for a May release, however it seems
WinFS may have had the axe:-(
Update:
I forgot to mention that this release is *only* for MS Connect Testers or if your apart of the TAP team, MSDN Subscribers and CTP/CPP folks may not get this build showing up. This release is also a staged build:)