Hi,
here is my experience with C::B and MinGW on Vista :
I'm using C::B on Vista and installing MinGW with the installer.
About the install of MinGW, I should disable the vista option about the user's account restrain (don't know if it's the correct translation... "contrôle des comptes utilisateurs" in French), otherwise, an error occur stopping the installation.
About the C::B setting, I must add a path :
Settings -> Compiler and debugger settings -> (in the combobox) choose "Toolchain executables" -> in the tab "Additional Paths" I added the path [MinGW_PATH]\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2
Maybe other path could be adding...good cheer
All seems to be ok now
regards,
TSalm