Gwyn,

There are two Vista Drivers for 162.22, a beta and the final Microsoft Signed version just released.   It is difficult to tell which is which, only the size of the file is an indicator of which is which as the most current has new features added for the 8 series and old ones removed, and therefore file size is smaller.  On my system that is 47 megs for the Beta and 43 megs for the current signed driver. 

I have the Tool Tips functioning, so you might check or uncheck the preference Show tool tips and reload Vue and recheck the Show tool tips in views, to see if it got lost or something. 

The newest 162.22 drivers address the newer features of DX10 and the OpenGl functions up to version 2 and so are pretty current.  Vue is supposed to use the Generic 1.2 and upward, but who knows what that is.  e-On keeps telling me that they are certain all of the troubles are with the OenGL features that my video card does not support.  I have a video card and drivers that support DX 9c and OPenGL 2.1, so I know that is not true. 

For the most part the only troubles I have had with the newer drivers are Vue.  No other programs have any troubles with these drivers, but others may have depending upon their system setup.  If you encounter a problem you should report any glitches to the Vista Beta program, and that goes for any other apps, so they will get rfixed asap. 

Yes Raid is goind to sap the system a good 10 to 12 percent.  The feature I like is the Reliability and Performance Monitor, which gives a very detailed account of what it happening to all of the resources when an app is running. 

Remember I mentioned all of those features above, so if you had a system that was running with 500 megs when installed, added a video card that now borrows 256 meg, 12 new programs for a total of 250 megs in SuperFetch, with Defender, and there are more than a dozen background security and analytical programs running, your system resources can soar easily.  You should not have any trouble as long as your system can get at at least 1.5 gigs of Ram, and Vue can get at least 1.5 to 2 gigs of ram.   In other words all totaled you need 3 to 4 gigs of hard ram when running Vista and Vue together.  Ironically when Vue is behaving it only takes about 10 to 15 percent of system resources.  When it gets a memory leak that can go off the scale.

If you want to disable a service Like Microsoft Card, do not turn it off, instead check it to Run Manual, just in case there are any poling services or services that need to make scheduled checks.   If you do not you may get lots of notices in the Event Viewer.  Or an unidentified support prog may keep popping up.  In Manual you can start the Service when you want if you need it later.  I do this all of the time, when I want Defender to run, otherwise it is shutdown.

Keep searching MS for the KB's and you will find tons of support docs with lots of info.  And do the internet search everytime you have an Error, or problem, as everyone is putting this stuff out ther in hope so fgett issues resolved.  YOu may find an answer that even MS does not have.

Trust me when I say I have already used up my Tech support, and although they were nice people, they new less about computers than my CAT!

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