Halloween 2008

Fri 31 Oct 2008

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Now the the world is in a state of financial downturn but when kids go trick or treating there is a one thing that financial crisis should not effect and that is dressing up for the occassion.

I refuse to give out treats for those who don’t even attempt to dress for the occasion.  You shouldn’t either.

Why?  Technically it’s called begging and just reflects poorly on how the kids where brought up.

Windows Vista in October 2008

Mon 27 Oct 2008

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My Vista experienced has – improved!

Yes after a year of living with a sluggish new PC the warranty has expired and I’m free to open the insides and do what I like.  It actually expired a few months ago but I just didn’t have enough time to deal with it.   So with a free day it was time to see what I could do about getting to to work faster!

After trying all the various software settings – so may I lost count it was clear that hardware changes was the only way to go.  The diehard Window fans will say why not turn off the Aero interface – I say why bother with getting Vista then?

Opening the computer was easy and you only need to open one side.  The internals are neatly arranged and tidy but a bit cramped.    There where 4 memory slots but obscured by the hard drive frame.  It has 2 unpaired 512MB memory cards hmmm on the cheap.  Anyway I moved them to the most inaccessible slots and put in my single 2Gig memory card in the easy to reach one! It uses 4200PC spec memory BTW.  Very cheap.

So put it all back and turned it one. Still takes a long time to boot up… log in and there you! Checked the specs and it says over 3000MB!  Ran the performance progam and the windows index said that there was a change in hardware and I needed to re-run the Index. So I did and a few minutes later and the performance score accounding to windows was 4.7.  Previous ly it was 4.5

So did I notice any improvement in real life? YES watching TV and surfing the internet, running iTunes and other programs work easily without the jerkiness experienced wihout the extra memory.  Operations seemed to take a little less time to run.

So adding extra memory to the computer does make Vista run faster.  It doesn’t become obviously fast but its the little things that appear to run without extra waiting time.

I say that 3Gigabytes of RAM in a PC is definitely required to run Windows Vista properly.  Of course you’ll need a fast CPU harrd drive or main board too but that’s a given.