It seems Windows 7 is just as slow as Vista. Randall Kennedy subjected it to a battery of tests and has concluded it’s just a “minor tweak” of the software monstrosity that has frustrated me by chugging my memory, changing my DVD drive settings so region 2 no longer plays in WMP, cheerily announcing that I had no hard drive installed (I have two), and last night just plain breaking down and informing me that something had gone wrong, but it wasn’t quite sure what it was and so couldn’t fix it. It did, however, attempt a fix, before trying to connect to the internet to share the information with Microsoft. Only it couldn’t, because I had been unable to boot the computer properly and so it had not started Vista proper or connected to the wifi. But apart from that it’s a wonderful piece of software.

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