The Wife’s desktop has been flaky for awhile now. I’ve suspected there was only one real resolution to the problem. I didn’t want to go there, but there’si been no selling the Wife on alternative solutions. So we purchased Windows 7 this weekend to install on her laptop and desktop.
The hardest part of the process was downloading a viable image from the Microsoft store. After numerous attempts, I finally hit paydirt with an install DVD that I burned last night. This was after a USB stick was trashed in my attempts to create an install image on it.
The install itself was painless enough. After telling it the language, the only other info requested was a username, password and computer name. I was even able to install all of the updates after the initial installation completed, as well as Thunderbird for email.
We’re waiting for some RAM to showup before we can install things on her desktop. After that, with any luck my interaction with Windows 7 will cease.