new OS blues

Friday, August 19, 2011 7:43 PM

Been having computer troubles. I was running a cheapo used mini tower running Windows XP Pro, for about the last six months. working fine. It died last week, mother board trouble, I think. So I got my, and Mrs BC's, laptops, both running XP Pro, both used, backup machines, all configured up and all the hardware and cabling lashed together. It looked like terrifying space monkeys had attacked, but it was working. I used it HERE, THIS MORNING.
Went out to the same local store where I bought the mini-tower and both laptops. Bought another mini-tower for $ 120. It worked in the store. Brought it home , hooked it up, OY!, whatta mess.

It runs Windows 7, which I've heard SOME good things about, as compared to Vista, which everybody agreed was a piece of total go'se. First thing it did was restart itself about 6 times in a row, every time the logon screen came up. It got past that, and then put up a message about " Don't touch anything, I'm installing 1857 updates." Then a message about " You must restart your computer for all these updates to be effective." Then a message about " Do not turn off or unplug your computer because I must install 12 more updates." Finally got restarted, and it won't install Firefox, won't install Adobe Flash Player, won't even connect to the Internet with Internet Explorer.

Finally accessed the copy of Firefox on my backup drive, and THAT works.

I'd take it back to the store and yell at the guy who sold it to me, but it isn't his fault. The machine works. But Windows 7 just went down in my book as just as big a piece of crap as Vista. If it wasn't such a long walk to Redmond Washington, I'd go there and give Bill G and nis minions a piece of my mind-- and maybe a couple whacks with a used mini-tower...

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