Luke DiMarco - Technology content, photos, updates & more! » windows http://lukedimarco.com Made by a Geek, for the geeks. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:09:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 10 Reasons I am Buying Windows 7 http://lukedimarco.com/2009/10/22/10-reasons-i-am-buying-windows-7/ http://lukedimarco.com/2009/10/22/10-reasons-i-am-buying-windows-7/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:56:58 +0000 Luke http://lukedimarco.com/?p=674 These are the top 10 reasons I am buying Windows 7. The past few months, I as well as many other users have been testing out the latest version on Windows via various beta builds. After doing so, I am excited for the new release of Windows 7 today. I run a Quad Core PC with Vista, and on Saturday I will be doing a clean wipe of Vista and throwing Windows 7 on the main machine as well as on a boot camp partition. Here are the new features/reasons why I am, and think you should check out Windows 7.

Windows-7-box

1. Virtual XP Mode

2. Faster Install times, and Boot up times

3. Support for Netbooks (I am looking at buying one)

4. Being  Able to Actually Remove IE as a browser and use Mozilla for everything

5. Better Driver Support (Thank god!)

6. Updates to programs like Calculator, Paint, and Wordpad (Who even uses these programs still? But about time!)

7. Get Rid of Vista…

8. Better UAC control

9. New Aero Design, Reliability and Features

10. Problem Steps Recorder (Cool tool.)

]]> http://lukedimarco.com/2009/10/22/10-reasons-i-am-buying-windows-7/feed/ 2 Anyone Ever Seen This Boot Error Before? http://lukedimarco.com/2009/03/19/anyone-ever-seen-this-boot-error-before/ http://lukedimarco.com/2009/03/19/anyone-ever-seen-this-boot-error-before/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:16:56 +0000 Luke http://www.dimcoproductions.com/?p=96 img00079You may not be able to read what this says, but this was the strangest error I have ever seen. I have never even heard of it before. This error was brought to me buy my oldest laptop, which is a PC (Go figure). What this error states is that Windows has failed to find the local profile and account information on this system! Like, uhm? I didn’t think it was possible to have a computer without some sort of account. I just didn’t get this one. I clicked ‘ok’ and the same window appeared again. So I figured maybe if I rebooted it would be gone. So I restarted it. It then gave me the same error as before. However this time out of frustration when I clicked okay 600 times, it logged me into my profile without even asking for a password. I noticed my background had been changed back to the Windows XP default and all my settings were restored to default, but all my files and programs were still in tact. The PC mind you has been sitting in my room idly for at least a week and a half now since I got the new Mac. What could this problem be? Any ideas? Email me @ ldimarco@dimco.ca – No its not possible someone hacked my PC. So don’t email me with that answer! :)


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