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 … Continue reading
June 19, 2008
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May 31, 2008
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When XP goes bad….
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 … Continue reading
May 11, 2008
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Power saving in Vista: follow-up
As 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 … Continue reading
May 10, 2008
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Power consumption: Who’s cheaper, Vista or XP?
I 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 Kill … Continue reading
March 25, 2008
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Windows Vista – Still on the horizon
I’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 … Continue reading