Living With Vista: My First Few Weeks

posted by  mneon (8)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Well I finally switched to Vista on my main dev machine at work. Its a Dell Optiplex 745 (detailed specs at the end) and installing Vista was trivial: I did a clean install via RIS from the corporate network. The default installation includes Office, so I had to add Visual Studio 2005, then its SP1, then its Vista pack. I had to install one more dev tool and I was done.

Multi-Mon Woes

I'm generally happy with the new UI, but there is one problem area, and it has driven me nuts: multi-monitor support is buggy on my configuration. When the monitors turn themselv