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Windows 7 Tip: Upgrade, Bad! Fresh Install, Good!
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Just a quick tip for all of you out there about installing Windows 7 on existing machines with older versions of Windows. Don’t do it. I have found that I run into compatability problems and anomalyous behavior doing an upgrade. I just got my new quad processor Lenovo IdeaCentre K230 desktop and was having problems with windows resizing after sleep and games not playing. I took a chance and blew away the system and installed Windows 7 fresh. No problems since. Read More→
OMG! Microsoft Windows 7 Kicks Butt!
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I have been a long time user of PC’s since the very first days. I was impressed by the advent of the graphical user interface with the Apple Macintosh. I used Microsoft Windows since its first release. It has been a roller coaster of good and bad since the first days.
Windows 386 and the introduction of Microsoft Office gave many of us technophiles hope for what was to come.
When Windows 3.1 arrived, many of us felt like we had arrived at nirvana. Windows for Workgroups punched up networking and file sharing between systems. Windows 98 was a bit more robust, but many users became familiar with the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Not so great.
Windows Me arrived and nobody was happy. My buddies at Microsoft said that one should have never left the building.
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