Resident apps suck the life out of Vista
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | 2 Comments »For the last 3 or 4 weeks, since my PC died, I have been running Vista Home Premium strictly and I still have to say - even with SP 1, there are a lot of reasons why a normal user ...
When XP goes bad….
Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Blatherings | 3 Comments »This last Wednesday night was fairly unremarkable - just another night really, until about 10 pm when all hell broke loose on my desktop here at home. For a day or so my AV had been telling me it updated ...
Power saving in Vista: follow-up
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | Comments OffAs a next step I set up my machine to run for an hour before entering sleep mode then to hibernate while in Vista - and it did make a decent difference. While asleep, the computer was only drawing between ...
Power consumption: Who’s cheaper, Vista or XP?
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | Comments OffI have wanted to do this for a while now, to see what the first run results would be, so I toddled over to Think Geek and purchased a Kill A Watt. They have a couple other models, a ...
Windows Vista – Still on the horizon
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Gaming, Geeking Out, Op/Ed | Comments OffI've been working with Vista almost every day now for nearly 6 months and my impressions of the newest OS from Microsoft haven't deviated much from my initial impressions. I continue to be plagued by problems and anomalies which seem ...
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