IE8 Beta 2 Is Out!

IE8 Beta 2 is out! Here I am running it on Vista Ultimate X64:

Vista Continually Rebooting After Installing Update?

Tonight I was tasked with the job of reinstalling Vista on my sister’s new Dell laptop. Why? Because for some odd reason, Dell doesn’t know how to install an operating system correctly and she was having constant problems. Anyways, after installing the OS (which took ~30 minutes, w00t), I ran Windows update. This, for the first time for me, decided to continually reboot the machine after it was “done” with the install.

Hmm. Well, I went into the extra options mode (F8 during Bios) and ran the Directory Services Restore / Repair Mode. This got me to a “Configuring updates” screen which was farther than before. After finishing the machine rebooted and kept restarting. So I did it again, and this time the updates were able to finish!

[b]Update (07/07/08):[/b] It started doing it again. After some tracking on the web I found out it has to do with an outdated driver that came with the Dell Vista install disc. Installing Vista SP1 did the trick, but to get there I had to put the drive into IDE mode (via the BIOS) so Windows could boot.

How Come Deleting Files Is Broken?

How come (in Vista) deleting files seems to be broken? The OS likes to decide that an application is still referencing a file that I am trying to delete, thus elevating to admin control. I hit continue, say yes, I am sure I want to do this and still nothing happens. Vista decides that it still can’t delete the file. This is great if I am using the file somewhere, but generally I am not when this happens. I can open the folder, select the files and delete them without elevation. I can then step back up a directory to the one that did elevate and delete without a problem.

So why didn’t it delete in the first place?