The Chronicles of Stuffed Guys

Upgraded PC and installed Vista. Some notes:

1. Little known fact — if you will upgrade your PC with 4Gb of RAM, 32-bit version of Vista (the most common one) won’t be able to use all of the memory due to how 32-bit architecture works (PCI devices memory also has to be addressed within the same 4Gb). On my new PC, Vista only saw 2.93Gb (from 4Gb total).
2. Device drivers could be a problem — usually installation disks that came with the hardware do not work, giving strange errors. Far from all manufactures have updated the drivers or updated the software.
3. On the other hand my WiFi card which requires drivers installation in XP, worked out of the box in Vista, with no additional drivers installation.
4. Still says stupid things like “About 1 hour and 0 minutes remaining” when files are copied. 0 minutes?
5. When I was copying “My Documents” folder from the old PC, in the middle of the copying process, when it got to My Pictures, My Music and My Videos folders, Vista suggested to move them to the new Pictures, Music and Videos folders respectively. Smart!