Lawrie makes a good point about having Vista drivers ready for your sound card, and also that external drive if it's older.

He also is giving some conservative recommendations for what is needed to run under Vista. He is clearly not a fan of Vista, but he is correct that you should buy the best PC you can afford. All I can say about Vista is that it runs fine on my five year old home built PC with a Pentium 4 CPU (single core) and 2 GB RAM. I do have fast new SATA hard drives, though, and for Real Tracks, I think that helps.

About the administrator, when you install Vista, it makes you designate one account as an administrator, which then has all privileges. You may then create user accounts, which may or may not have administrator rights. All I meant was that you should install BIAB while logged in as an administrator.

BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.