You've almost certainly heard by now about a set of Vista hotfixes currently being circulated in pre-release form that address a great many issues people have brought up before: slow copying of large numbers of files (which bit me a couple of times), better sleep / hibernation support, and so on. They're alleged to be either public hotfixes or the first precursors to the long-rumored Vista SP1. (There was never any suspense about whether or not we'd get an SP1 for Vista -- it was just a matter of how soon.)
But would I install the pre-release versions of these hotfixes? In a word, no -- not least of all because of the simple fact that they're a) beta-only and b) only originally intended to be downloaded and tried out by selected folks. I have no delusions that they'll spread far and wide, and that there's no practical way to keep such a genie in its bottle -- but I'm also not about to gamble with my system stability as it is. For the most part things work very well. When the pieces are final, then I'll make a full backup and apply them -- and by that time, Microsoft should have gathered enough feedback from their beta testers to close any lingering "millionth-mile" issues.
Or maybe I could snag them and try them out on my guinea-pig machine ... hm ...
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