Ron Schenone

First Day With My New Laptop

Posted by on Oct 14, 2008 | 6 Comments

My new Toshiba laptop arrived yesterday afternoon and since than I have been loading up my stuff as I had previously described. If you didn’t read my previous article, this is the unit I purchased here. Here are a few things I did learn in the past 24 hours that I had stated in my previous article here about preparing for Vista.

1. The system came with Vista Home Premium with SP1, so I didn’t have to fool with the SP1 update.

2. Following the recommendations, Office 2003 is working just fine. I installed Office 2003 and than SP3, prior to opening any of 2003 software programs, and all worked perfectly.

3. Vista downloaded and installed all the newest drivers for me, so I didn’t even need to use the drivers I had previously downloaded.

4. Everything else I had previously mentioned went flawlessly. The only thing I didn’t do was to upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I think for right now I’m going to stick with Vista Home Premium and see how it goes. I will be making a decision in 30 days whether to stay with Vista or downgrade to XP.

5. One problem I did have. I had trouble getting my profile from Firefox working. So I finally found a program you may wish to try called MozBackup. It worked flawlessly and I am up and running using Firefox writing this blog article.

You can get a copy of MozBackup from this link.

Comments welcome.

  • george

    congrats, i hope it works out for you :) !

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Thanks George.

  • Denny

    Sound’s Like . YUR . Havin – FUN – Ron :-)

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Heh Denny,
    So far all is well. The new lappy is nice, very nice.
    But like you, Vista has its moments with networking and allowing the XP machines to view files. I’m working on the problem as we speak. Also have a few more software items to load.
    :-)

  • http://twitter.com/governa Ricardo Governa

    Guys can you please slow down on the Google+ news? This is getting very repetitive, specially your twitter account. In the last hour you tweeted 3 times about Google+. Enough already, please!

  • Caliban Darklock

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