Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Microsoft Update Tuesday’s…

Like every other PC user that runs a version of Microsoft Windows I had some hot fixes to download. I figured that I would go ahead and just get i out of the way and get them downloaded and installed. I started the updates on my Home Server and then on my desktop. I was then prompted to ‘restart’ my machine to finish installing the updates. After the Home Server had restarted and my user account logged in none of my user specific settings loaded and I got a message to contact my system administrator (which is me).

I have been burned once before by the Microsoft Windows updates and I was not very happy about this. I decided that I would restart and then see if that fixed the problem. With my fingers crossed and thinking of when I was going to find time to re-setup all of my user account settings. Sure enough I didn’t have to do anything other then restart and poof… all is well.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Windows 7

Like many other Microsoft enthusiasts I downloaded the Microsoft Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 as soon as it was available (and I could get a connection to the Microsoft download server).  I currently have two installs of Windows 7; one is installed on a dedicated machine and the other is installed on a VM session. 

Dedicated Machine

VM Session

I currently use Vista Ultimate as my everyday OS but I am starting to use Windows 7 more all the time.  At first I wasn’t sure how I was going to like the new Windows toolbar.  The new look and functionality has proven to be something that I have grown to like using and find the new features to be very useful and increase productivity once I had grasped what I could do with them.

What do you think about Windows 7?

If you are looking for more information about Windows 7 I suggest going to the SuperSite for Windows.