Windows 7 Update

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:38:00 -0700

Aloha fellow humans (and bots)! Recently, as in this past Sunday, I updated my laptop which is a HP dv4t from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and boy am I glad or what! I wiped the machine clean and did a fresh install. After restoring all my data and reinstalling majority of the programs I use, I found that this whole exercise had freed up almost 30 GB of space on my machine, which I think is pretty ridiculous. Either I had way more bloatware on this machine earlier than I realized or Vista hogs up hard disk space much like it hogs memory. Now I say Vista is a memory hog because that is exactly what it used to do, at least on my machine. This laptop has 3 GB of memory and the memory usage used to be around 50-55% when Vista would start up. On the other hand, I'm noticing that the memory usage is only 25-28% when Windows 7 starts up. Again all that factory installed HP bloatware was probably causing higher memory usage but still it seems like Microsoft has done a much better job with optimizing resource usage in Windows 7. Oh, also the boot up period itself for Windows 7 is much shorter than Vista (woohoo!!). Another thing I'd noticed was that this laptop used to get very hot with continuous usage when I was running Vista which would cause the fan to run all the time. The sound of that fan running continuously annoyed me (a LOT) and I was almost at the verge of buying a new laptop last week. Installing Windows 7 seems to have totally fixed that problem! The laptop has not been getting that hot since Win 7 was installed and I've hardly heard the fan running at all. So apparently Vista is a processor hog as well! Microsoft, I'd be mad at you but at least it looks like you are possibly starting to learn from your mistakes. Anyway it looks like Windows 7 has saved me a decent chunk of cash, for now :) Feel free to chime in about your Windows 7/Vista experiences folks. Stay warm! Anant Disclaimer: Windows 7 marketing team did not pay me to write this blog post, although I wish they did!

Finally I have a blog!!

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:01:00 -0700

Greetings Drifters of the World Wide Web! I know most of you don't really care, but this blog is sort of a big deal to me. I have thought about putting together a blog for AGES but never got around to doing it. Finally I surprised myself about 2 weeks ago by showing an uncharacteristic spurt of energy and putting together this blog using BlogCFC. I must thank Ray Camden for creating this excellent blog engine. Where would the world be without such brilliant and energetic people like Ray?!? Anyway feel free to drop by every once in a while to check out this most interesting blog (In case you haven't figured it out yet, I have a rather dry sense of humor). At this point I'm not sure if this is primarily going to be a technical blog or a just an outlet for my random thoughts and experiences but I have a feeling it's going to be a combination of both. Probably more of the latter than the former but it could easily be the other way around. Honestly, I'm as much in the dark about it as you are so I guess you'll have to keep coming back to find out (I feel like a used cars salesman saying this and I actually like it :) )! Adios

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Windows 7 Update

Finally I have a blog!!