First, let me just take the time to say thank you. Thank you Mr. Powell…for teaching me a very valuable lesson. Imagine I was giving you another chance to redeem yourself and you wasted it. Now I’m $500 in the hole. Asafa, please seek out Dr. Phil, you NEED help. Anyway, such is life. Congratulations to the Jamaicans for all making it to the men’s 100m finals and congratulations to Usain Bolt for winning. See video1 and video2 (in French).
But enough about that, now on to the main topic at hand. Many of you have heard about Microsoft’s recent operation system, Microsoft Vista. I have had the pleasure of trying it out back when it was in its beta and RC stages (coughs…bootleg) and I must say…it was a real experience. There weren’t enough software and drivers that supported it at the time so my initial experience wasn’t that great and at times, things were frustrating. But it wasn’t Vista’s fault. Due to this, when people asked me about it, I tell them to hold off for a while. Just long enough for software and drivers to get up to scratch. NOTE: Vista hogs memory so I recommend having at least 2GB of memory first.
Not everyone embraced Vista like I did, and so since the integration of Vista to the world, people (and this may include you as well) have been having bad experiences with Vista. Microsoft identified this and released a new operating system, Windows Mojave. You can check that out here.
So…I bought my laptop (HP Pavilion DV6770SE) and I was happy when I saw Vista on it. A little pissed with all the unnecessary services and apps running, but happy nonetheless. I eventually got everything cleaned up and I was running cool and everything. I felt like a kid opening presents on Christmas morning. But all of this happiness was crushed when I realized that the most important app I use at work gave trouble on Vista (3 out of 4 BSODs at startup) and so I had to resort to installing back XP. Recently, I was bored one Friday so I just went ahead and re-installed Vista. I had missed it too much. This time, something was different though. I mean, 1.4GB memory used at startup was something I wouldn’t stand for. So I set out on a mission to cut this down. Eventually, I had found this article about tweaking Vista which proved to be very helpful. In the end, I tweaked the hell out of my laptop, kissing Aero and the sidebar goodbye, and now memory load is 850MB at startup. Now, you might be asking yourself, “why the hell would you do such a thing like that?”. My answer to you is……I’m f**king paranoid about my memory.
I had found some other neat sites while on my mission. Vista Knowledge, a cool site about Windows Vista Desktop Customization & News. And some HD wallpaper sites too. Of course you need your desktop to look beautiful: myHDWallpaper.com, Cool HD Wallpapers and HDwallpapers.net. Here’s my desktop.
Nice and clean. I love widgets, but I love a clean desktop more.
Sigh…I will miss XP. Should be posting a part 2 eventually. Anyway, I’m gonna go watch some NFL pre-season games. Until next time.
Btw.....EPL started today. Go Manchester United.
- wiz
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