How To Grab A Free Copy of Windows XP Professional

Welcome to The Ramblings of Jenn Shuey! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Are you one of those unfortunate people who just purchased a new desktop or laptop that came with Vista already installed? You’ve discovered you hate Windows Vista and wish you could go back to Windows XP? (If you actually like Vista stop reading here.)

I do run my own home based computer repair business, and I’ve had many customers complaining to me about how horrible their computers run right out of the box.  I give them two choices.  I can tweak Vista for them, or they can go back to XP.  So far all of them have chosen XP except one person.  That one person brought his computer back a couple weeks later asking me to get rid of Vista for good.

I promise you, you’re not out of luck. It’s easy to get a free copy of Windows XP Professional to replace that crappy Vista, and I know this for a fact. We’ve tried this and been successful each time.

What you need to do:

Call the computer manufacturer. Yep, that’s it. Call them, and tell them how horrible you think Vista is. Tell them you would have never purchased the computer if you had known Vista was so horrible, and you want a copy of XP Professional. We’ve tried this 5 times now, and each time we’ve received an XP Professional disk in the mail within a couple weeks.

Tags: computer manufacturer, windows Vista, Windows Vista sucks, windows xp

How Fast Can You Type?

How fast can you type? It’s been a long time since I have actually had someone formally test how fast I typed. The last time would have been in high school computer class, and we only had to type 30 wpm to be able to pass the class.

Here’s a site that tells you how fast you type, and it’s not one of those that runs random words across the screen. If you want to see how fast you can type check out the test on jphantom.com.

How fast can I type? I might be able to get a better result if I tried the test again, but for right now I’ll stick with this one.

Tags: computer class, how fast can you type, wpm

Cell Phone Of The Future

What do you know about nanotechnology? Is it some boring concept that doesn’t appeal to you because you think it’s just another computer related term? You might be surprised to see what Nokia expects to do with nanotechnology in the future.

The video below is very interesting. It is about 6 minutes long, but if you’ve got a few minutes to spare it’s well worth the watch. Things are evolving around us everyday, and cell phones are no exception. How would you like to be able to wear your cell phone as jewelry among many other things in the future?

It’s all thanks to nanotechnology.

Tags: cell phone, cell phones, jewelry, nanotechnology, nokia

Photography

What kind of digital camera do you have? Do you print out the pics you take? What’s your favorite photo?

I love capturing the moment with my camera, but I don’t always like sharing my photos with others. Why? Because I’m very critical of the photos I take, and I always find something wrong with them.

*Edit survey removed b/c I will no longer participate in this company on this blog*

Tags: digital camera, dneero, graphy, photography, Photos, survey