More Hard Drive Woes
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes
It seems that yet another 500GB hard drive failed on me, which prompted me to install Windows 7 on a new drive.
It seems like this same thing happened a few months ago. I have several 500GB drives, and it seems like Windows was going slow, and then files get “read errors”. I have to do [...]
Tags: Microsoft Windows, SATA controller, Windows 7
Windows 7 Programs not launching
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes, Guides
So, I finally installed Windows 7 (after yet another hard drive crash… more on that later) and it looks pretty good.
One problem that I ran into was that certain programs would not launch at all. After Firefox 3.51 ran once it would not run again. The task appears in Task Manager, but cannot be brought [...]
Tags: but cannot be brought up, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Vista, Task Manager, Windows 7
