January 11, 2009
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i may have mentioned this a while back when i was showing off my fancy new UPS (which works great, by the way. we haven’t had a single power outage since i bought it. glad i spent the money.), but i had to reformat and reinstall Windows a few months ago. what i probably didn’t mention was that i had exceeded the number of times i was allowed to activate XP with the license i bought. i managed to coax the authentication servers into letting me activate it one more time, but considering Vista is in full swing and the open beta for windows 7 is now going on, i’m not sure how much longer i’d be able to ride the XP train.
so i bit the bullet, threw two more gigs of ram in my system, and installed vista ultimate x64.
so far…i’m not all that turned off. it will take me a while to find everything, since i’m still very used to the XP interface, but that will come in time. everything seems just a bit zippier, even simple tasks. that is probably vista’s ram caching system, but hey it works. UAC doesn’t annoy me as much as it used to, thankfully. it’s overall a good switch and i’m kind of happy i made it when i did, now i won’t have to worry about being stranded without an OS for a good long while.
