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The Joy and Pain of a New Computer

October 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

A few months ago Patty’s computer, a seven year old Dell 4100, crashed with the dreaded BSOD. When it came back up, there was an ominous warning in the Windows System Event log with this Description: “The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and [...]

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Windows Easy Transfer Companion

October 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

If you have much interest in Windows Vista, you have probably heard of Windows Easy Transfer. Having used it twice now, I can say that it works as advertised. It did the job of copying accounts and settings from my old XP machines to the new Vista computers very nicely. But it does nothing for applications. [...]

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Tags: Computers