patndoris TechnoGeek

Well, it’s been about 3 weeks since I installed Windows 7 on my 64-bit machine. My just shy of 15 year old male offspring has had it about a week and a half longer than I. Installation was flawless on both machines but if you are upgrading from Vista please take time to run the Upgrade Wizard ahead of time to look for any possible problems that you’ll want to address.

My son has experienced a few more burps than I have. Odd since his was a complete flatten and rebuild on the 32-bit laptop. He’s had a lot of driver updates on his HP machine. My Toshiba has had a few, but a lot less. My only complaint is random BSOD, specifically when I plug in a USB flash drive. Today it happened 4 times in a row. I waited a little while and tried again and it was fine. Not sure of the culprit. Other than that and getting used to a few minor visual changes it’s great!

I’m running Panda Cloud AntiVirus on both (which is now out of beta) and thus far I’m still very happy with it on both machines. Not all cleaning tools work on Windows 7, and many don’t work on 64-bit machines. If you are on Windows 7 be sure to check that your malware and cleaning tools are approved for your new (or newly upgraded) machine.

That’s it for my quick update….off to do the myriad of other things that seem to take up all my time these days. I will be glad when things settle down again!