Tiny
Senior Member
They hit my computer hard . Started a month ago with little random things would act up . Memory maxed notices then random shut downs or restarts . I tried the fixes that MS put out to clear things up and it didn't help . Last Wednesday it started going to black screen then flash a few notices super quick then off . Friday the same .random shut downs and One blue screen flash then off .
I had no clue if I had hardware trouble or not on top of the Microsoft stuff but it was get so the dyeing was nearly every hr . I felt I had nothing to lose when a friend said something about a different operating system . I had never attempted anything like that . This thing was headed for the scrap heap if it kept up it's present rate of decline .
After 12 hours of fighting and figuring stuff out , It was done . Microsoft 7 was gone . My biggest deal was this was a "yard sale" machine which meant if the machine had 7 disc's .. they kept them . I did not have the cash to buy new 7 disc's so I went with a free open source operating system . At the moment I have no clue weather or not I have cut my own throat but 2 days into this I have not had an error or shut down or any stupid happen .
Just wondering if any one else has gotten away from MS other than buying a mac computer . The operating system is called Ubuntu . It has it's own versions of MS programs .
One reason I felt I could get by with this is , I do not bank from the computer or for that matter buy off the net .
I had no clue if I had hardware trouble or not on top of the Microsoft stuff but it was get so the dyeing was nearly every hr . I felt I had nothing to lose when a friend said something about a different operating system . I had never attempted anything like that . This thing was headed for the scrap heap if it kept up it's present rate of decline .
After 12 hours of fighting and figuring stuff out , It was done . Microsoft 7 was gone . My biggest deal was this was a "yard sale" machine which meant if the machine had 7 disc's .. they kept them . I did not have the cash to buy new 7 disc's so I went with a free open source operating system . At the moment I have no clue weather or not I have cut my own throat but 2 days into this I have not had an error or shut down or any stupid happen .
Just wondering if any one else has gotten away from MS other than buying a mac computer . The operating system is called Ubuntu . It has it's own versions of MS programs .
One reason I felt I could get by with this is , I do not bank from the computer or for that matter buy off the net .
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