Running vista & love it. Few issues though

My system is running vista ultimate final X86 smoothly, but I have few issues. Dell haven't released alot of drivers for vista yet for my system. Which nvidia driver are you guys using? I'm using XTreme-G MobileForce 97.46 G3 driver and it seems OK, but when running games like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas at 460X680 or whatever the lowest is, with everything tunred off or lowered to the lowest, I can barley get 15-20FPS, 1.2 patch is applied, system defragmented, up to date. I'm not sure if it's the gfx card's driver or the CPU. I'm using I8kfanGUI V3 Beta7 ( gonna upgrade to V3 final in few hours ) and eventhough the power option is set to performance, the processor speed goes up and down. I know in XP, when I set the power option to always on, the processor'd be running @ max all the time, but I can't seem to find out how to do it in vista which might be the reason for the low FPS, that or the gfx card's driver.
Where're the cookies, temporary internet files stored in vista?
When I start vlc, wmpc to play movies, the screen always ficks when I start playing a new file in those 2 players which's annoying.
1 more problem, after installing vista ( I have 3 partitions, xp, vista, storage ) I found out I needed to add more space to vista, so I used partition magic that did the trick but screwed up xp partition for me. C: used to be XP, D: used to be vista, and E: for storage. But after partition magic finished resizing vista's partition, C: became storage, D: for XP, and E: for vista. the system gave me error message when booting into xp and vista, I used vista's DVD to repair it, and it did. But I can't boot into xp eventhough all of it's files're still intact, it's only the boot file I guess. But I'm not sure if it's a good idea to play with it after installing xp, then vista, with all programs now. How can I fix this the easiest and safest way?
Sorry for the long post

 

it might be short while yet before graphic manu like nvidia/ati catch up with vista. ati is still on BETA vista driver

i just leave it to vista to handle the performance monitoring
access:
control panel -> mobile PC -> power option

start IE7, tools-> internet option-> browsing history - settings
then u can see where it stores on ur machine

sorry, cannot duplicate on mine

this is still a "bug", at least by me anyway. One cannot just "add" more disk space once vista is being installed, unless it is on its own with no other operating systems
once the boot file is being "touched", u can only be safe by deleting vista partition, fix ur xp boot, and then re.install vista with a larger partition

cheers ...

 

I didn't think games would run fine in vistal before I installed it so I created 15GB partition for it only, then I decided to add more space to vista by taking some space from the storage partition ( no OS in this partition ) to install couple games. Turned out, I was right and they don't run fine *yet*. Since I need to reinstall windows anyways, I'll try modefying the boot ini file first and see how it goes. Thanks for the info, repped.

 

There should be a new beta nvidia driver out on laptopvideo2go.com. Vista sucks, though.