Wish me luck

[andrewducker]

I've dropped all my important documents into DropBox, made sure my music is on the networked hard drive, and copied Neverwinter Nights off there as well, just to be on the safe side.

It's time to install Windows 7.

Wish me luck.

Comments

[hano.livejournal.com]

(breaks out the black candles, the goat and the pentagram...)
Good luck!

[drjon.livejournal.com]

No Fix for Black Screen
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222000693
Various websites have reported that a fix for the “black screen of death” problem on Windows 7 will not be included on the set of patches that will be released on Tuesday.


also

Ad hoc in 7 Starter
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141750/Windows_7_Starter_includes_hidden_wireless_feature_says_sleuth
The starter edition of Windows 7 does not include an ad hoc wireless feature according to Microsoft. However, a blogger for Within Windows said that the feature is present in the operating system. It is just hidden.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

also,

Black Screen of Death
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222000502
Over 50,000 users have downloaded a fix for the so-called “black screen of death” according to a security firm. This is an indication that there are much more people affected with this problem.

(links culled from Technibble)

[andrewducker]

Interesting - both those posts contain 90% identical text. I wonder if one's just an updated version of the other.

In any case, I'm not convinced that it's actually affecting huge numbers of people - and most theories I've seen seem to indicate some kind of malware.

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

I installed Windows 7 myself today, all seems to be going well, barring some trouble with mozbackup screwing up my plugins meading that I had to delete some files in my mozilla profile to get add ons working.

I had the black screen of death on my media center installation of vista over a year ago, it was almost certainly thanks to a combination of not installing anti-virus and installing a dodgy codec pack.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

It's fairly painless. I've done it lots of times now as part of my tests...

It'll even handle some of the unsupported upgrade scenarios quite happily (with just some minor edits to the install files). The only issues I've had have been long upgrade times on well used Vista machines with tens of gigabytes of user files.