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Upgrading to Windows 10 under very adverse conditions…

trparky July 30, 2015 0

I installed Windows 10 as an upgrade from Windows 7 on my father’s notebook and it went perfectly. Note, this is a machine that flat-out refused to run Windows 8.x because the notebook has one of those funky dual-GPU setups in which it has an ATi/AMD Radeon GPU and an Intel GPU (yes, I said it was a funky setup).

Under Windows 8.x the ATi/AMD and Intel GPU drivers never meshed right under Windows 8.x which resulted in video card support being well… completely FUBAR.

I said, what the hell… it’s a free upgrade, might as well try it. I did a Macrium Reflect disk image of the system disk just in case Windows 10 resulted in a FUBAR video situation. But, much to my surprise, Windows 10 supports this dual-GPU setup flawlessly.

WELL DONE MICROSOFT! God, I can’t believe I just said that. Let me go wash out my mouth, it tastes bad now.

Windows 10’s release date is near…

trparky July 27, 2015 0

Windows 10’s release date is near and I’m excited. The moment Windows 10 is released on July 29th is the moment I’ll be telling my computer to start downloading Windows 10.

Windows 10 Build 10166, A “Hail Mary” if I’ve ever seen one

trparky July 19, 2015 0

A month ago I talked about how I thought that Windows 10 wasn’t going to be ready by July 29th because of how many bugs still existed in the older Build 10130. I also said that Microsoft would have to pull off a Hail Mary of a miracle to get this thing together for the …

A warning to those people thinking about upgrading to Windows 10 Technical Preview…

trparky July 14, 2015 0

Those people who have upgraded to Windows 10 Technical Preview WILL NOT be eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 10. Those users will be forced to reformat and reinstall a prior version of Windows (Windows 7 or 8.1) before they can get their free version of Windows 10. Not only that but their prior …

My iPhone Experience… Four Months Later

trparky June 5, 2015 0

I have had my iPhone 6 Plus for four month now and like anything there’s some things that annoy me about it. The biggest issue is that sometimes, for no reason at all, Safari on my iPhone 6 Plus will trigger a full page refresh of tabs in Safari. Some people say that it’s because …

Is Windows 10 ready? Not by a long shot!

trparky May 31, 2015 0

From the looks of things with the Windows 10 Technical Preview that if this is what Windows 10 is going to look like, they are going to be in for a lot of trouble. If the release date is really going to be August 31st, 2015 like what Newegg has said it’s going to be, …

Is this the end of a Microsoft dominated world?

trparky May 30, 2015 0

Here I am, and I can’t believe that I’m saying this, but I am seriously looking at the Mac as a future for my computing needs. Why? Well, I don’t like the way that Microsoft is going so if I were to switch to the Mac I really wouldn’t have that much trouble finding software …

Setting The Record Straight

trparky March 22, 2015 0

My last couple of posts have made several people call me a fanboi. And you know what, I may have very well sounded like one. That’s right, I may have very well sounded like an Apple fanboi. Putting The Blame Where The Blame Needs To Be Put My last couple of mobile devices have been …

It seems that I’m not going to win here…

trparky March 14, 2015 0

It seems that I’m not going to win here. So, with that said I’m not going to write anything new here.

The Samsung 840 EVO performance bug is back… Part 2

trparky January 30, 2015 0

Some more users have confirmed that their 840 EVOs are still bugged even with the last firmware fix. Even PCPerspective has confirmed that they too are seeing the same issues. Samsung 840 EVO Performance Restoring Firmware Only Partially Effective Samsung… you tried to fix this problem before with a firmware fix, obviously it didn’t work. …