Beheading the Behemoth
Over the winter break, my ailing computer system got some new life to keep it going another year. It had mysterious reasons it never shared with me, my tech or the computer store for spontaneous freezing. Yes…the winter cold was longer than a snap down here in Sunny Florida and maybe my feelings toward it also grew cold with so many failures to work. But that’s why I had a tech geek repair it. We put in a new powerpack, put the fan and computer console where it didn’t overheat, added a fresh stick of 2 gig memory for RAM and I got talked into buying Windows 7.
I don’t like Windows 7. I have the Ultimate version. It’s slow on uploading files. It won’t let me access my camera images. My Adobe CS4 Bridge is so slow I could jump off it and come back all in the time it takes to bring up the camera photo extractor.
I have the Windows 7 for Dummies book but after reading it through and making changes, I think Windows 7 IS the dummy. Vista didn’t give me so many arguments and silent obstinate refusals.
The bottom taskbar never looks like I want it to. I want a packed subway car full of Desktop icons and when I send them over to populate for ease of access, they don’t “arrive”. Over and over, in Adobe Bridge CS4, I clicked File>GetPhotosfromCamera….and the little blue circle would twirl and then disappear. Nothing happened. Maybe two hours later, the feature would pop up. I consider this useless technology. I’d rather mop my floors. In fact, I had so much time in-between functions, I did mop my floors; rolled up the large silver outdoor tarp, cleaned the patio, took out all the garbages and ate dinner.
The only fun I had on the computer today was uninstalling the swaggering behemoth:
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