Once again, I needed to clean up my laptop with a fresh install. So, today, I tried again in installing Server 2008.

After some worry and how the last time it failed for network usage, the assistance from D'Arcy Lussier helped a lot! It is now running on my machine.. and a HELL of a lot faster than Vista.

However, some things I noticed:

• Windows Live services will not install. (I am not the only one who noticed this.) Going back to an earlier version of Windows Messenger is not a big deal... but I miss Windows Live Writer since I just got it installed and was liking it for my updates.
• Setting up Windows Aero (some people hate it, I really like it) was kind of dumb - had to enable the service manually
• Wireless setup took some enabling and installing from my Dell disks, but got it working finally

Even with the problems... Server 2008 was the quickest Windows installation I have ever had! Was pretty sweet. Now to install VS and start my Silverlight presentation...