I hate Vista!

Ugh.  That is all I can say… ugh.

I just spent the last two days trying to get rid of Windows Vista.  I had been running Vista Enterprise on my work laptop, but it was frustrating to work with.  All the pop ups, the sluggishness, the constantly running fan etc.  I’m also running Vista Ultimate on my desktop, but I’m considering removing that as well.  If the 4-5GB of install space and the mgp or wmv moving backgrounds that chew up tons of RAM don’t do it for ya…

I also had a hell of a time getting XP back on my laptop.  The nw8440 laptop boots from a SATA disk that XP doesn’t recognize on Textmode install.  And for those that know Windows OS installs, you will also know that it takes a floppy drive to install SCSI/SATA drivers.  Well I don’t own a floppy drive, so the ordeal I had to go through to get XP back up and running.

First of all I had to build a custom windows XP installation CD that included a textmode driver for my SATA disk.  I managed to get the OS on but then I couldn’t get my Audio drivers to work.  So after about a dozen bad CD burns I finally managed to build another custom XP install that not only had my SATA drivers, but all the drivers for my laptop and much of the Windows XP patches and updates currently released.

Ugh.

I’m on call this week and put in WAY to many hours on Saturday and Sunday.  The good thing is I get to take Friday off this week as well as Monday and Tuesday of next week.  A nice 5 days off.

Here is a pic that was sent to me today of our nieces.