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Vista Ultimate

Finally Windows 7 – Three Months of Upgrade Misery and Tenacious Malware

by carbonboyJanuary 29, 2010 Vista Ultimate
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Apple lovers will love this, but likely not be able to endure reading the entire post (it’s way too long). After a half dozen failed attempts (beginning on the day Windows 7 was released last October) and subsequent multiple malware attacks that left my Dell XPS M1330 running worse than ever, I finally bit the [...]

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Windows 7 Upgrade – Just more Hell

by carbonboyOctober 22, 2009 Vista Ultimate
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I knew the day was not going to go well when my wireless router crapped out before noon. Why today, after years of flawless service? It was the Microsoft Curse showing up in advance. Shortly after, my Windows 7 upgrade from Amazon was delivered by UPS as promised.
I called my Internet service provider and they [...]

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My Vista Ultimate Hell – Ordered Windows 7 for 10/22 delivery from Amazon – From the Frying Pan into the Fire?

by carbonboyOctober 7, 2009 Collective Stupidity
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Summary of My Dilemma
Unfortunately I am running Vista Ultimate on a Dell M1330. It seemed a good purchase at the time, as it has an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz / 2.20 GHz with 4.00 GB of RAM and a 32-bit Operating System. This was Dell’s 2007 attempt to introduce a thin, [...]

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