Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Man and machine in perfect harmony - perhaps
The previously-mentioned hardware arrived and I'm on my fifth Windows XP Pro machine in a year. This time I finally tried the Transfer My Settings wizard and it did a good job - way better than my expectations. To get the max performance, install all your software then apply the settings. Combined with the Office wizard I saved a couple of hours ...
Can't help but notice how each PC vendor's versions of Windows are different - this time Diskeeper didn't want to start until I'd tweaked Component Services ...
Despite the new machine (a dual-core Intel Centrino Duo, but only 512MB RAM until I can get hold of another 512 module), it's close to a whole week since I saw a new Windows error message. I've seen a few old favorites though.
The most annoying factor of this round of upgrades: the new flat-screen monitor. After opting for a widescreen model I'm ruing the day, so far, since its max resolution setting simply does not work with two different graphics cards - ATI and Intel. I'm hoping to obtain the drivers tomorrow from the monitor vendor, whose helpdesk had closed by the time I found the number today.
Can't help but notice how each PC vendor's versions of Windows are different - this time Diskeeper didn't want to start until I'd tweaked Component Services ...
Despite the new machine (a dual-core Intel Centrino Duo, but only 512MB RAM until I can get hold of another 512 module), it's close to a whole week since I saw a new Windows error message. I've seen a few old favorites though.
The most annoying factor of this round of upgrades: the new flat-screen monitor. After opting for a widescreen model I'm ruing the day, so far, since its max resolution setting simply does not work with two different graphics cards - ATI and Intel. I'm hoping to obtain the drivers tomorrow from the monitor vendor, whose helpdesk had closed by the time I found the number today.
# posted by Nesjo : 22:02
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