Over the last few weeks I have had a few technical issues with the old PC. First it was the screen that went on me and I got so angry with it that I gave it a good thump and then it came back to life. This fix lasted me for at least 3 weeks until I could not take it anymore. Sissi took me to a computer market where we searched for a guy that replaced the screen for $90 and low and behold I have a brand new computer. Now that I could see the screen once more and everything was ok I decided to reinstall windows and so I started the process of backing everything up and then I reinstalled Win 10. I formatted the second partition and then completed that install too.

Two days later I was downloading some updates and so I went to the park while it was going through the motions. When I returned I got the shock of my life to see that the BIOS screen was staring me in the face. I spent the best part of the day trying to fix the problem before I was severely tempted to launch it from the balcony. I resisted this temptation and went for a walk and bought chocolate and just generally felt sorry for myself, plus the fact that I was so fucking pissed off that my computer had once more decided to toy with me.

The next day we got an IT guy to come to the apartment and he said that he could check out the problem and if need be replace the hard drive for about $70, which included the windows install. I went ahead with this and got a 500GB hard drive installed. I got the PC back the next morning and low and behold WIN 7 Ultimate was installed and it was great to be back to a cleaner looking and in my opinion a better operating system than 10. I mean 10 is OK but it’s designed with the tablet in mind and all this fancy apps store nonsense is just a drain on resources and so to get back to a much leaner system is great. Of course if you know WIN 7 then you will know that it does take quite a lot longer than WIN 10 to set up, this is where 10 has the advantage. But at least you can see the updates easier in WIN 7.

So a few days have passed and the PC is nearly ready, but then need to print a PDF which is a very simple process with WIN 10, however with WIN 7 you have to set up yourself but then that’s easy enough. This is where you can see some advantages of having 10 but you know going back to 7 is really great. The PC was designed to run 7 and so it does run faster, but I also like the look of 7 compared to 10 and so I am once again happy to use my PC and I am so glad that I did not launch it over the balcony last week