Images: A view of Microsoft Vista

For us, the installation took a little more than an hour. It's pretty much an automated process, with the installer first copying the ISO image onto the new hard drive or partition, then expanding that image. Once again, we experienced an uncomfortably long plateau at expanding: 27 percent. As with previous builds, we waited about five minutes before the expansion continued. About halfway through the process, the installer rebooted and continued the installation in Windows Vista.

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