Opaquit's blog.en » windows http://www.opaquit.com/blog.en Let's perform the blog reading event! Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:40:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Oldschool Windows Vista wallpaper http://www.opaquit.com/blog.en/oldschool-windows-vista-wallpaper/ http://www.opaquit.com/blog.en/oldschool-windows-vista-wallpaper/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:54:27 +0000 Opaquit http://www.opaquit.com/blog.en/?p=23 I’ve made a little oldschool Windows Vista wallpaper for those who still remember the Windows 95 times. It uses the default desktop background color and adds a modified Windows 95 logo. Instead of 95 it just says Vista. Two versions are available by the way—the first one is for desktops with Windows Sidebar disabled, the second one is for those with Windows Sidebar enabled. “Have phun!”

Windows Vista oldschool wallpaper


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]]> http://www.opaquit.com/blog.en/oldschool-windows-vista-wallpaper/feed/ 1 This is the best way to get rid of crapware http://www.opaquit.com/blog.en/this-is-the-best-way-to-get-rid-of-crapware/ http://www.opaquit.com/blog.en/this-is-the-best-way-to-get-rid-of-crapware/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:15:57 +0000 Opaquit http://www.opaquit.com/blog.en/this-is-the-best-way-to-get-rid-of-crapware/ …at least if your new computer came with pre-installed Windows Vista. The other day I got a new HP laptop with Windows Vista Business. The laptop is great, the operating system itself is great too… but there’s one thing that completely ruins the user experience—crapware.

If you’re lucky enough and don’t know what crapware exactly is, check out this video featuring Tom Merritt. So how to get rid of it? Well, the first thing I did when I first saw those tons of useless trials, pre-installed programs, and drivers was trying to uninstall them. As soon as they got all uninstalled, the system still remained too slow and generally weird. CorelDRAW 12 kept crashing, the wireless network connection would always disconnect and I was like “Damn Vista. I should have stuck with the old good XP or 2000.” A few weeks later I found this blog post about replacing the manufacturer customized Vista with a clean installation. However, doing so usually requires spending some extra money (the fee depends on your location, I paid $7 in Europe but I guess that shipping within the U.S. is even cheaper) on the original “Windows Anytime Upgrade” DVD. But man, it’s definitely worth it. When I received the DVD, I made backups of all my data, formatted all the partitions, and started installing. I ended up saving about 10 gigs of hard drive space by removing the HP’s useless partition containing the original disk contents and other similar stuff. The system is now way faster, Wi-Fi finally works without random disconnecting, and surprisingly CorelDRAW 12 works fine too. If you keep getting mad about your computer being slow because of crapware and if you’re not too lazy to spend like one day making backups of your data, you should definitely check out the site I mentioned above. You won’t regret the effort.

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