Archive for July 6th, 2003
The weekend’s PC fun and games
by Dave Wilson on Jul.06, 2003, under Uncategorized
Taking advantage of a 3 day weekend, I’ve taken the plungs and upgraded my Windows PC to XP. I’ve been putting this off for months, since, given the amount of software I have installed and the number of weird and wonderful hardware devices I have, I was sure I would end up in upgrade hell. Thankfully, however, it was trivially simple and the result is surprisingly good so far (only 1 crash in 24 hours and that didn’t take the machine down).
Windows 98 SE had been unbelievably unstable for me recently. It would take 3 or 4 reboots to get the system up and running whenever I had to shut it down and I was getting “Blue Screens of Death” most days. 3 years of use plus many software package installations had left the machine with terminal bit-rot. Hopefully, XP will prove to be a far more usable platform.
After the upgrade, I only have 2 problems – I can’t find an XP driver for my Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II slide scanner and my old answering machine software (PhoneTools) no longer runs. I can fix the second problem by throwing money at it (no free upgrade from BVRP 
) but the first could be trickier. Time to continue the driver search. I wonder if I can move the scanner over to Linux instead?
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