Windows 7 Saga

Here is the current update on my upgrade installation of Windows 7 – it crashed repeatedly. This appeared to occur after an auto update from Microsoft however I cannot say that for sure. It had been working and about the only real problem that I had was lack of sound. Sometime this week it started crashing after I walked away for it for a few minutes I would return to find a sign in screen and upon signing in I would see a window that said Windows had recovered from a hard/severe whatever and was looking for a solution to the problem (I have paraphrased what the message said as I do not recall the precise words).

 

Last night I did a clean install using the current partitions and it only took about 20 minutes (give or take a few) and was up and running fine. As of this morning it is cranking away. I will admit that it is much faster than Vista (or even XP). I opened Internet Explorer and “boom” it was there. I went to Google and downloaded Google Chrome and installed it in a matter of a few minutes – very fast. Still no sound so today I am going out to Creative Sound Blaster and see. I am hoping that this will work as I do like what I see and should have done a clean install to begin with.

 

The justification for not wanting to do the clean install was to avoid the problem of having to re-install all the software, MS Office, Adobe Creative Suites, all the Live tools, Mesh, and then re-synch the files that I have in Mesh. Outlook is a major issue because of the email addresses that I have to reconfigure.

 

I know that I am always told to do clean installs however I “use” these tools to learn so that I can teach/advise/consult and often state that I live within my computer so  a clean install or a reformat is a couple of day issue for me. I am glad that I have this tablet PC to keep using (it also has all the software on it).

Now to finish my Saturday morning coffee here at Starbucks as I think I am going to have help my wife reboot the bedroom, I mean re-paint the bedroom today. ENJOY!!