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…or what I learned over the weekend

This entire saga starts Thursday morning. I was able to get about three hours of work in when I felt the need lo reboot my computer.

When my computer came back up, I found myself in “reduced functionality mode.” I didn’t even know what reduced functionality mode was until this happened to me Since I have to expect that you don’t either, I’ll explain.

RFM (not to be confused with RTFM. which I should have done when I got this computer) is a state you can end up in for one of several reasons which I’ll cover next.  You get a blank screen with a couple dialog boxes on them and no explorer interface.  You also get one hour before you are logged out.

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Don Reisinger, over at CNET, writes that we should all give up on Vista and just use XP with Service Pack 3.

Funny, because I just had an interesting conversation with a Mac guy yesterday about, “How do you like Vista?” (more…)

or… How I spent my weekend before the weekend before Christmas

This weekend, I decided that now would be the best time to upgrade to Vista 64 bit (from Vista 32 bit)  And, after more than 60 hours of trying, I finally decided that Vista 64 bit is not worth the effort yet.  The rest of this article outlines what I learned along the way, some things you should be sure to do PRIOR to trying an upgrade, and some pretty severe comments aimed at Microsoft for the poor upgrade experience.

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