I installed Windows XP early on Friday… and late on Friday… and early on Saturday. Here’s a list of tips for installing XP and Office.
- I tried (unsuccessfully) to use the Install from Scratch system on a computer that already had Win2K. I found myself in this awful state where nothing would run properly. (In all previous versions of windows, I’ve found it important to wipe your computer every year or two. Performance and compatibility karma come your way when you do). I eventually did an “upgrade” install. It seems to be working ok.
- If you threw away the envelope that your Windows XP CD came in (Doh!) XPKey.exe (a 48k download from The Blue List) did a fine job of finding my key. Curiously, it didn’t work on Office XP for me.
- I’ve got some terrible hesitation/hanging weirdness going on. From my web browsings, it looks like it’s related to Instant Messaging being built in to Office. Doing the following seems to have worked for me: Go to Microsoft Outlook | Tools | Options | Other and turn off “Enable Instant Messaging in Microsoft Outlook”. Also, it seems important that you don’t kill the stupid Windows Messenger system tray program. When I did, I started seeing stupid slugishnesses.
- Running sfc.exe from the command prompt seems to have helped the sluggishness
I caught the trailer for MR today. I am sad to realize that the Wachowski Brothers only had one Matrix movie in them.
Cyberpunk Highlander. Ugh.
A great movie. Psychos in Love is like a Keystone Cops version of The Great Train Robbery.
Ok, I saw a 45 meg Quicktime of the Matrix trailer. I’ll give it that it’s a pretty movie… “sumptuous visuals”. But if you threw 25 million dollars at A Nightmare on Elm Street, they could make it “sumptuous”… Oh wait, they did. (Freddy Vs. Jason)
It’s the plot, man! It’s the plot!
Noni, Bamfa and Julia making meatballs!
Recently there has been tihs thnig giong arnoud aobut how the odrer of ltetres in a wrod hradly mrattes at all. This tinhg, sopupsedly from Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, syas that only the fsirt and lsat leteter has to be in plcae for anonye to be albe to raed the dcomuent. It’s an ientrstieng “aacdemic” ieda but I cna’t fnid any siold lgeitaimcy to it. Waht do you thnik?
Last night I went out with Dave B again on a Gluttonous adventure. I showed up at Pub 199 at 6, he was there a few minutes later. Right up at the top of the menu (I don’t know how we missed it last time) was the trypic of steamed clams special, steak special, and lobster special. I opened with 2 dozen steamed clams and a beer. We moved on to lobster and a potato…. and more beer. Then we had dinner: more beer (of course) grilled cheese, grilled cheese with tomato and another potato. My tummy hurts. Gluttony is good. :-)
I stole the color scheme from http://inipi.org/ today. What do you think? It’s the one with the dark brown background and yellow text. If you haven’t seen it yet, reload this page a couple times. It’s on a randomizer with 2 other color schemes.
PS. Mu ha ha!
I wrote to a friend today the following:
We were talking before about what the heck we should each do for a living… I wanted to give you hopeful news and say that I’ve been being “The Computer Guy” with moderate success for the last couple months. I go to people’s homes and help them with their computer problems. Little things and large things alike. And gosh darn it, I think I’m good at it! There’s a big teaching component to it, showing people how to do things and helping them help themselves. I think this could really be something.
I lifted this Shockwave movie from Slapdash.com. Click on the image for the movie
Thanks Melissa for pointing it out to me!
