Monday, June 08, 2009

My Desktop Computer

My desktop computer has had issues for a long, long time. We're talking blue screens of death if you even thought about restarting it for any reason. Instead of restarting I would have to turn it off and wait 30 minutes or longer, usually longer, just to be able to use it again. I know I have fans that are no longer working and my computer is hotter than it needs to be. I have to wait for a while before I can have a new one built. Glad I have my laptop to use as my rig until then. A friend of mine told me Friday that I needed to reinstall my operating system. Problem. I have my XP cd but I've reinstalled it more times than Microsoft allows so that would mean having to buy a new license. Yeah, not going to do that. Windows 7 is going to be released this fall and that is the OS I want on my desktop rig. Since Microsoft is allowing everyone to test Windows 7 with a release candidate I decided to give it a try. What's the worse that can happen is that it won't work right? Well, it works. So far so good.