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I am all about the efficiency of time and work. Not at work maybe but in the rest of my life for sure. I have a wife and two kids and a dog and a cat and I just don’t like to burn time on the computer like I used to. I have a handful of computers at home and at work that are all running Windows XP except my wifes Dell laptop running the Vista it came with.
As we all know Windows of all kinds gets slower and slower especially when an IT guy works on it so I have been getting more and more used to the craptasticness of my Windows XP, until this weekend.
On Friday night I did a backup and loaded up Windows 7 and somehow that inner geek inside of me came out again. I groused about settings and software and restoring data but I really was loving the whole process. I would steal bits of time here and there to get software setup and to kind of understand the new features of Windows 7 like home network sharing and UAC protection. I got to find un-needed services and optimizing the Aero interface.
I feel like a geek again like I haven’t in 4 years.
And now I am still loving all the intricacies of Windows. Using XP for so long had made me lazy to innovating the OS I just did my fixes and moved on, I had lost that sense of wonder and now I feel like I have it back.
The great thing for me again is the excitement of newness. I really had forgotten what not knowing and having to search around was all about and now I get to do that again. I know I have lost efficiency, I know I am again underpowered computerwise but again I feel a bit of a thrill about logging in and rebooting and setting up hardware and software. A bit more controlled maybe then I was in my 20s but still having the sense of excitement and wonder that i had back then.
Expect lots of tips and tricks for Windows 7 coming up soon.
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Well that sounds awesome, I went to school for IT and when I was in school, me and my friends were pretty geeky, we would do so much stuff and some of it was funny, some of it was invention, some of it ended up in smoke and fire.
But since then, I been having a hard time getting a job due because where I live there isn’t many jobs in IT, at least ones that are available to me. I don’t have a college degree yet either and that doesn’t help in the job department.
But since I been out of school and been at home just about everyday, I losing my geeky part of me. Like the other day I had a 3 monitor array set up, 17 – 22 – 17 inch monitors and I kind of liked it, but it was too many wires and just a pain to clean off the dust.
So I switched to my 22inch monitor and I put my studio speakers right next to them to get some awesome sounds. But to tell you the truth, I am really missing my extra monitors, but I think I may just get another 22 inch monitor and get the Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 sound system and should sound just fine for me and plus it’s going to look pretty killer if you ask me.
You know another thing, this is how bad I am, I have a $1600 Cisco router sitting in my closet because I have no wheres to put it to use yet, well not until our basement is done so I can install a server rack and what not.
I remember trying to make stuff work with the stuff that I have, but it was getting to the point where I wanted stuff to be simple and just clean, because it was making me feel overwhelmed and I hated it.
But yes, Windows 7 is the king of windows operating systems! I been using it on my system since it came out to release, and I really love it, It’s been rock solid so far. Once we get our basement finally finished and our home office finished, I got some more computers to fix up and hoping to get Windows 7 to install on them, but we will see.
I guess I just need to take one day at a time and see where that takes me. Great post, sorry for my long comment.
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