Recently I did an in place upgrade of my Vista system to Windows 7. All went really well, and tonight I was doing a cleanup of the system and clearing out old files. I found using TreeSize Free tool that I had a couple of folder with 8.7GB+ of files in them – one called $WINDOWS.~Q and the other called $INPLACE.~TR as you can see below. These files are left … [Read more...]
How to make the TyTN II work with Windows 7
I tried to get my HTC TyTN II to work with my new laptop running Windows 7 – it would not work. When I connected it to the laptop, it came up in device manager and device stage as a Generic RNDIS device. I found that the only thing that worked was to install the Windows Mobile Device Centre – you can download it here Still not quite sure why it didn’t work as designed, … [Read more...]
Insanity with Windows 7 Upgrade paths…
I'd not realised before just how insane Microsoft's upgrade path for Windows Vista clients is. And I'm pretty sure that many other resellers are not fully aware of the finer details of it. Here's a graphical overview of it http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/windows-upgrade-chart.png I was doing some charity today for a church with a number of PCs that had Windows … [Read more...]
HP MiniNote 2140 SATA vs SSD
I recently moved my 2140 from a 160GB SATA drive over to a 120GB SSD drive. Below you can see the performance of the system with the disk at a rating of 5.4. Following the replacement with the SSD, you can see below the performance has gone up to 7.1 which is pretty darn impressive. From my perspective it does seem to run faster all round. In fact I’m finding it hard … [Read more...]
Windows 7 – Fresh Installation
Our family has a number of laptop computers, with each member having their own. My wife and son both wanted to have Windows 7 on their laptops, but my daughter however wants to stick with Windows Vista. For now I’ll let her so stay on Vista as she’s got the right to make up her own mind what she wants. My wife’s laptop is a HP 6910p. We had been running Windows Vista x64 … [Read more...]