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Windows Impressions

October 21, 2008 at 2:52 pm · Filed under windows

This post would be titled differently, but I’m not allowed to say the V word, so it’s just Windows Impressions.

I decided to give my gaming rig a reformat this weekend, and thought as an experiment (and because I don’t use it much) I’d make use of the MDNAA software available to me through my university and install a fresh copy of Windows Vista (I cannot be bothered to avoid the V word) Business 64-bit, which is perfectly capable of being Vista, it just doesn’t contain some of the fun stuff such as the Media Centre, or Movie Maker, yet still comes with the Games Explorer, so is perfectly capable for being on my gaming rig.

After some initial install problems (I decided midway through setting stuff up that I wanted to use a different drive, and cloning didn’t go well, and it doesn’t seem to like installing on a logical partition) everything was working fine. I’ve been using it on and off for a few days now, so I thought I’d give my good and bad points that I’ve experienced so far:

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@CallumSEJ maybe. Unusual method though as it requires all players to have iPhone + 1 iPad. Don't think Scrabble sells well :p # 2 hours ago
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