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Windows Vista Backup
O.k., I'll admit, the first time that I used windows Vista backup, I was very underwhelmed, but it's grown on me, and now I'm a huge fan. On Monday, I received a new hard drive from Dell. It's bigger and doesn't make strange clicking and stalling noises like the old drive did. :) I was pretty certain that the old drive was going to go. To swap out the drives, I plugged in a USB drive with sufficient capacity and did a windows backup complete pc backup. Once that was finished, I plopped in the new...
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Posted On Friday, August 15, 2008 4:39 PM | Feedback (2) |

Removing Vista
Technorati Tags: Vista,games,NVidia,drivers I have two machines, one is my laptop that I use for WPF development and other development work. It runs Vista and I can't say that I've ever had a problem with it, except when running games. I like a lot of new features of Vista and recommend it to people regularly. My other machine is strictly a gaming machine and today I'm removing Vista from it. Why? Not because of some arcane reason, but because the Nvidia drivers for non-8000 series video cards are...
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Posted On Friday, December 28, 2007 12:04 PM | Feedback (2) |

There's a reason why I buy from Dell
So I'm out on a trip at a client site with my brand new Dell laptop. Before the trip, I had to have the lcd screen replaced because of what appeared to be a short in the wire connecting the screen to the motherboard. I should have known then that there were major problems with the machine. Well, I'm out at the client site, and suddenly, the machine starts giving me BSOD's. Supposedly, BSOD's aren't supposed to happen with Vista, but here they are, and they aren't for the same thing. One was for a...
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Posted On Monday, February 19, 2007 2:14 PM | Feedback (0) |

Vista: That's it?
O.K.--so I got a shiny core duo 2 from dell the other day, and have vista loaded onto it. The performance thingy rates me as a 3.5 (because of the video card), and says I should be able to enjoy all of the snazzy new features of Vista.I start to tinker, and soon find that the Aero stuff is really only skin deep--as soon as you go into any of the dialog boxes for more advanced stuff (like the system dialog boxes, the "advanced properties" of the display, etc), you quickly find that this is just XP...
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Posted On Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:20 AM | Feedback (12) |

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