Strengths:Extremely easy to setup, just as long as you've either read the short manual included with it &/or have plenty of experience at doing full/clean installions of PC operating Systems.
Weaknesses:A whole new ballgame compared to Windows XP O.S. Make sure you read the included manual before installation, back-up anything worth saving, & prep. all hardware/software for new Vista driver install.
Posted May 30, 2007 - At record speed (for me anyway, if you do it as often as I do), & supposing nothing goes wrong (such as technical glitches/malfunctions/issues/etc.), without any complications and smooth clean installation all-the-way: It used to me take about a whole hour to install a full/clean version of Windows XP MCE 2005 O.S. (Not including updates, software programs, utilities, peripherals, etc. -- Just the Full/Clean O.S.) and it still reallied (heavily) on the ancient & outdated 3.5" Floppy Diskette for third party RAID Drivers, due to a huge lack of drivers needed to setup RAID functions -- even if you setup your RAID in DOS with a third party utility and/or in you PC BIOS, it pretty much still won't work if you want to install an XP O.S. in RAID without the drivers during it's installation/setup. (Again, when it came to doing a full, clean install of the Windows XP MCE 2005 O.S.; Not a Recovery, Upgrade, or retrieval through a backup disc, partition, &/or image, like from a third party such as Symantec Norton Ghost, etc.)
When I did a Full, clean install on my RAID partition of a new PC I built from scratch (piece by piece) for the very first time, it took about 5-10 minutes, and I didn't need to use any third party RAID drivers on a floppy disk, because Vista Came bundled with plenty more Drivers than you could ever dream of (that's probably why Vista Home Premium takes up about five times more storage space than XP) -- no fooling! However, I made sure to read the manual before installing. Now I just need to learn how to use this new O.S. to it's full potential for all of my multimedia needs, but so far, it's been fairly easy to get the hang of. I also went online (on a different PC) and got all the new drivers for all of my hardware/software before installing Vista, but if you actually read the included manual, it'll recommend you do that anyway.
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