Windows 7

Quite sometime since I chipped in a post here. So almost out of words really to add on something.

Recently Windows 7 beta version was released by Microsoft. It was a straight 2.5Gb download from the site.. Damn.. Using a Mac from so long hasn't left any ounce of love really for windows honestly, but ya, i don't hate Windows. So, out of curiosity i downloaded Windows 7, just to give it a shot and see if it was a step back or a step ahead from Vista. N my word for that, the whole installation processes and most of the things went on nice and smooth. I havn't actually been that brave to install Vista myself, so I cannot compare the installation of Windows 7 from Vista, but Windows 7 was slick from the word Go.. It even detects your GMA 3100 which was out of scope for Xp.

The look and feel of Windows 7 is pretty much the same as that of Vista but the whole experience was wayy better ( thankfully ). As i said, i havn't actually used Vista so it took me sometime to figure out little its-bits in settings. But overall am actually quite impressed with it. But hey, before i forget, Windows might have copied Mac's icon tray style design but only difference is in Windows 7, the icons keep on adding up in the dock. It'll take sometime to recognize the icons bcuz i cudn't figure out some of them myself.

And just a tip. If you installing Windows 7 after Xp and by chance you formatted C drive, then you'll be st. away logged into Windows 7 bcuz oops.. you just lost the Xp bootloader.. 

But nothing to worry, Just get a free copy of EasyBcd and you might need 2 files NTDETECT.COM and ntldr which are freely available on net to get an option for booting Xp as well during start up...

De-vista-ted

N seriously take my word for it !!! 

Going around vista is itself so much complicated and to top that, it shits up even more when u want to install our beloved XP. With all those silly dim effects during absurd security questions and the dazzling effects which will end up leading u no where. If you want to remove any application, just click REMOVE and wait for 10 min ( with 2.0ghz and 2 gig ram ), you just have to go thru bloody unimaginable amount of pain to get things shared and move your stuff from one comp to other. 

I started transferring drivers onto a flash driver for back up, n initially it showed 15 min which was pretty acceptable for 1.6 gb. but slowly the time counter started increasing. N it reached to nearly 5 hours ( without no reason ) and that was it. I was so frustrated with vista that i decided to erase watever happens. 

But, thats actually not wat i did. :-) . There was some sense left in me to get those drivers and start installing XP. 

But !! as soon as the booted with the XP cd, i got an error that the setup cudnt find a HDD, i was like what the hell ? No wonder Apple's share is rising. neways, i got my way around that hurdle as well after searching on net for a possible solutio

n by changing AHCP to compatible hardrive in BIOS. 

After some homely feeling i got after watching Xp install process, i actually for the first sat back n relaxed for a while ( which xp installation tells you to do ). Xp installation didnt take long and after some hard fought things, i got finally booted into Xp. But uhh, there were actually quite a few barricades on the way. 

Yikessss   Driversss. .!!! 

Which is the most painful thing to do (or to find ) after installing a diff OS on laptop specially. I had some real pain in the ass finding Mac OS X drivers for my dell's hackingtosh, n now this XP is laying here like an alien on a toshiba laptop on a 800x600 resolution.

I still havnt been able to find the some drivers and one major problem now is i can't get  .NET framework to install on it. It seems like with every 1 step , am moving 2 behind. Damn.. !!

Neways, i have taken a break for a while from windows. I cudn't take it nemore of windows in a single day.  

Swearing..

Ok, ya this is an interesting topic actually. I had to go and sign few papers today and meet some one regarding it. I have known that person for a while, he's my friend's dad. And the funny thing is, when we were kids, everybody was very decent and posh talking to you and your family. Now that we have grown up , things change. And the men actually tend to count us in in there talks ( of ne kinds ). Well its good but sometimes you actually have to pretend you didnt hear the things which just flew by or just act busy in something.

 Even making dumb faces can help ;-)

Neways, its not a big issue but surely it'll take some ti

me to get into the habit of acknowledging the " swearings " :-). N mind you, hindi ones am talking about here.. !!

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I actually came across a funny pic. Well the funny part is that, something similar can actually happen with me . :-) n VILLA are the football club - Aston Villa ( just in case )