Okay, it has been five days since I installed Windows 7 on my Acer netbook.

 

How is it going?

 

Surprisingly well.  Performance remains better than with Windows XP.  The system is certainly more friendly than before. Sleep mode actually works (like it always has on a Mac) for the first time on Windows.  I really, really like the new task bar with the window preview.  Reminds me of OS X, maybe even one step better.

 

I've only actually had two problems:

 

1. • The system won't shut down/restart when I tell it.  I have to kill foreground and background programs to get it to go.  A minor annoyance.
2. • Some files & folders I had stored in c:\temp refused to delete.  Said I didn't have "permission" even though I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR.  Duh.  Even when booting in Safe Mode, it STILL won't delete them.  Brain dead if you ask me. And yes, I tried to set the security/ownership etc.  Apparently THE FOLDERS ARE NOT OWNED BY ANYONE.  Duh again.

 I may have to boot this PC off a Linux live CD, just to be able to delete folders! 

 

Okay, that does it, I'm booting up Knoppix to "manage" this Windows installation - since Windows is incapable of manaing itself :-(  Poor job, Microsoft.

 

 

 

 

 

Update: Okay, I booted up Knoppix and was able to delete everything except two folders.  I'm figuring it must be related to the hard drive corruption. Still, why should I have to use Linux to manage a NTFS volume?   Crazy, but true.