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A new vista, part 1 22 July, 2007

Posted by fraggle in Geekish Tendencies, Travelogue.
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Howdy folks. What calamitous event provokes me to blog, I hear you cry? Why it’s my new computer and the epic story of setting up Windows Vista!

As this the second time I’ve assembled a computer from scratch, putting the hardware together didn’t take too long to do (about 7 hours which included being distracted by an ordered Chinese takeaway and the film Deja Vu which was quite good as time-travel thrillers go. Didn’t avoid a temporal paradox at the end though.)

Even the basic install of Vista was painless, after I realised that I’d installed to the wrong partition! Nope, up to then everything was peachy. (more…)