Windows 7 is weird.....

[switch842]

Working on getting the new laptop all set up. Windows 7 is very, very odd. It'll definitely take some getting used to. No opinion yet on good or bad, just still weird. The no icons on the desktop thing is very strange. And I have 2 HDs (woot!) and a quad core (quadruple woot!), so that adds stuff into the mix. Quad Core = major awesomeness!! Current laptop is only single core. So, trying to work in Photoshop while listening to music in Media Player was pretty much an exercise in futility. Now I can do that with no problems! LOL Oh, and speaking of, I have now been updated to PS CS4 as hubby no longer had the files for version 7 that I am currently using.

So, yeah. Got Chrome installed. Getting that configured. Will get Firefox set next. Installing that just in case I decide to go back to it from Chrome. There's still some things with Chrome that I'm not liking too much. So, we'll see....

Comments

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

I hadn't really considered how weird Windows 7 is. I started using it on my laptop while I was using Ubuntu on my desktop. And going to work 5 days a week where I used Windows XP for 9 hours a day, with the added feature of dual monitors. My mixture of operating systems just blurred things together I guess.

Jealous of your quad core. CS4? Didn't CS5 just come out? I was wondering what improvements there were. (Although the last version I used was CS3 I think.) I'm still using a combo of Chrome and Firefox. The one thing I hated about Chrome was the inability to save tabs. But then I found out if you close Chrome with all your tabs open, the next time you open Chrome there is a little link you can click to reopen all those tabs. Weird, though.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

There is a setting in Chrome that will reopen whatever tabs you had open last the next time you start it. Under Tools -- Options -- Basic. That first area has an option to "Reopen pages that were open last." I LOVE this feature.

I just poked around a very little bit in CS4 yesterday, so I can't really tell you what's new in it. I actually need to uninstall and reinstall it. I told it to access the internet when I shouldn't have since I don't really have a legal copy. *cough* So it will want to verify the serial number which isn't really going to work. LOL Once I get poking around I'll let you know how it goes. At a quick glance, all the basics looked pretty much the same.