Repairing a friend’s PC tonight. She got it for free and it didn’t work.. Someone had previously tried to fix it and replaced the Power Supply with one that is so not correct it is silly… They put the 20 pin connector into the 24 pin slot on the mother board.. hmm Why won’t this power on???
I know, I know.. those pins aren’t “Required” but with a Pentium D class power hog, what do ya expect..
Luckily we had an extra PS around the house(surprise)
Anyway.. to the point.. I’ve mostly managed to avoid Vista.. really, but this PC has it installed and I have to say.. WoW.. It really sucks!
First I couldn’t connect to my own wireless networks, so I disabled the firewall, then it displayed that it was back on, then it displayed that it was off again, is not on.. now it is on..Then Windows showed it ON but not at recommended settings. So I click on what is recomended.. mistake…
So I mange to get onilne and head straight to windows update… more fun…
First, There are no important updates, just optional ones.. So I click to see those.. oh wait.. now there are actually 69 critical updates right next to those… . sigh..
I’ve used Windows 7 for a couple hours, nothing like this crap….
Disclaimer: I’m still on XP on my main PC.
December 5th, 2009 at 10:10 am - Edit
Aww, c’mon you’ve had to fix Vista before. lol. Anyway, Travis is right. Upgrade to Windows 7 if you have a Vista computer! Your techs will be happier with you.