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Great news! I was selected by Microsoft to be a Windows 7 launch party host. They sent me party materials and a signature edition of Windows 7 Ulitmate. Windows 7 is pretty nice. It makes me feel pretty good about my OS. I have been using Windows Vista for years and was using it since it came out. Vista worked well for me, but that may be because I have a pretty fast computer and know a few little tweaks for Vista to make it run a bit better. One other thing is that Microsoft released this anti-virus software program called “Microsoft Security Essentials.” It appears to be better than most anti-virus programs. My professional recommendation however is Vipre Anti-virus.

I just bought a new laptop.  Guess which one?  The newer Acer Aspire One D250.  It is nice.  Anyway, I wanted to install Windows 7 on it from a thumbdrive.  I always seem to forget the code needed to copy the files correctly to the thumbdrive to make it bootable.  Well here is the code: xcopy g:*.* /s/e/f r: .  So what you do is open up the cmd prompt in Windows Vista (I use it) and type that in.  G: is for the drive with the Windows 7 Disk and R: is for the thumbdrive.  I just mounted the iso of Windows 7 on a virtual drive with some free software called: Virtual CloneDrive.  Well, there you go.