Jane Talks Tech!

I've been using Windows 7 for over a week now and it feels very familiar, but much faster and more stable than Windows Vista SP2. Some have opined that Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been and I have to agree reluctantly. Without knowing all the facts, it appears that they had to ship something and Vista was it. Their slogan for Vista was "The WOW starts NOW" and if you've read several screeds about Vista's failures, you can appreciate the irony of that slogan. ...

So, within days of using Windows 7 Ultimate, I suffered a bluescreen event (BSOD) and had Windows prompt a chkdsk run by itself. I was curious to see the results of the disk check, but if you have seen one of those occur, you'll know that the results scroll by too fast for you to read. I went to good old Google and within short order, I discovered that instructions on the internet are often incomplete (with mine being the exception, of course. :D) ...

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So, if you haven't heard, Windows 7 is being released to the general public on the 22nd of October. I was one of the lucky people selected by House Party to host a Windows 7 Launch Party. Yesterday, my party pack arrived and I got to work installing Windows 7 Ultimate on my HP dv9700t laptop. This laptop is over a year old and had a Vista windows experience index score of 5.0. It took ~ 1.5 hours to do a clean install of Windows 7 over my existing Vista Ultimate installation. I took some photographs and shot some ...