A Tale Of Two Experiences … Or Why I Don’t Use Windows
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. They say never to begin a novel talking about the weather. I guess nobody told Dickens, but I digress…
Today I booted into Windows XP MCE for the first time in 24 days. I would like to share my experience. I kept careful notes because I knew what to expect from past experience and I anticipated some of the problems that I will share.
First let me say that I am not a newbie. I have used PCs from the earliest days. I began on the Apple II and I have used Windows extensively ever since there first was such a thing. I have used Linux as my main OS for about 7 years. Now that I have got past the preamble, here is my tale of two experiences.
It took XP 42 seconds to boot. That is fairly typical for my computer. The Windows desktop first appeared at 10:56 a.m. However, I was not able to use my computer for some time as it went nuts with updates, probably because it had not been into Windows for awhile. I got several pop-up notices about updates available and blithely began to answer everything in the affirmative. Four minutes later, the update notices stopped coming and I was able to get control over the computer and set to work. However, three minutes later I got a flurry of activity as the hard drive became very busy once again. This may sound extreme, but it happens after not using Windows for a long time.
I loaded Firefox and began to read messages.
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