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August 08, 2008  
Subject: This is just ugly
Group: microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.announcements
Date: 10/14/2006 9:17:03 AM
From: =?Utf-8?B?R2FyeU0=?= [Email Address Protection]

Apologies, I know this is the wrong forum, but I don't what whats the right
one. And I am honestly less than impressed... Bug report..

I figured I would bite the bullet and see what RC2 was about under a 64bit
AMD system. Initially it looked rather interesting and I realize it is
beta... but why make changes to my original system? This was the proverbial
"clean install" to a new 300gb SATA drive away from my normal boot drive.

Now when I play older style DirectX games on my MAIN boot (XP Pro SP2) the
video freezes up, the system hangs and will sometimes auto reboot and
sometimes I have to press the reset button. When it does reboot, an error
report is sent to Microsoft which comes back and indicates that a STOP
message was received in the video drivers. So ok.. video card got glitched.
I took it back, got a brand new one (ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, not a low end cheap
card) and installed it, loaded up only the video drivers, ran the game... and
once again the freezes and error messages.

Looking at various log files, it appears the the Vista install has for
whatever reason installed freaking beta DX files. On my main system? My
main system wasn't supposed to be touched! WTH!!!!

No other updates were done, no other software was installed, I never
auto-update anything, there were no hardware changes... I'm so frustrated at
this moment. Why this install tampered with my current system, updated logs
on my main boot drive for DirectX... *sighs*.

So tell me... what is the way to uninstall Vista so I can get my system back
to normal.


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