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Friday, February 12th, 2010, in
Nerdy Things
It’s been a while since I brought up anything related to my Windows 7 freezing. Mostly that’s because I turned Aero off and it hasn’t frozen since… but also b/c I haven’t bothered to try anything else. That is until earlier this week. At the end of January Microsoft released a optional update for Windows 7. Might as well try it, right? Ya, fail. I installed the update (along with a few other Win7 updates [...]
Sunday, December 6th, 2009, in
Nerdy Things
Just under a month ago, I installed Windows 7. The next day I noticed a freezing problem. Ok, so it wasn’t so much “freezing” as it was some sort of graphics issue. Initially tried disabling Windows Defender and EFS. I really had no idea what was causing it. And the few threads I found online didn’t seem to have any more of a clue than I. After taking a few minutes to think about it [...]
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009, in
Nerdy Things
Finally got my replacement hard drive (thank you WD warranty!) and was able to install Windows 7 Professional. So far so good actually. When I ordered Windows, I also ordered up another 2 GB of memory to put me up to 4 total. Don’t know if I REALLY need that much… but I am running the 64 bit version, so why not? All said and done, the install was only about 20 minutes … wait [...]