Here’s a nice tweak that I didn’t know about: apparently some Microsoft developers have a God complex when it comes to their OS. Hence the “Windows 7 GodMode tweak”. If you’re a hardcore Windows user this is probably old news for you, but I just stumbled upon this today and I can confirm it works rather nice. So what does it do? Well it provides a single place to access all your Windows 7 (both 32 and 64bit) settings without you needing to browse options and folders in the Control Panel. Very handy because you can get lost pretty easy in all […]
Windows 7: so far so good
As I was getting more and more flaky errors from my Vista Home Premium installation, I recently reinstalled my Del XPS 420. Since I got my hands on Windows 7 Ultimate (legal, MSDN), I decided to take the step and install that. I reviewed some beta versions of Windows 7 before and it looked promising, but it is alway a bit of a gamble with Microsoft. Previously when I beta-tested Windows Vista it was a nightmare: with every new Beta it seemed that Vista got worse and worse instead of better. So when the final version of Vista came out […]
Time to reinstall
After just two years I am already forced to reinstall Winblows Vista on my Dell XPS420. I have a legal (MSDN) copy of Windows 7 as well, but I wonder if I should do a clean re-install of Windows Vista first (as it has all Dell drivers), or if I should just attempt a clean Windows 7 install? Usually the latter is better. I’m now in the process of backing up my stuff to a 1TB USB disk. It’s slow and annoying. Another reason why I want to reinstall, is because the RAID 0 (stripe for speed) config of my […]