Writtenwyrdd

I hope this works with the new computer

I'll have more hair and fewer curse words coming out my mouth!

Windows 7 Easy Transfer:
Migrate to Windows 7 the Easy Way

The Easy Transfer Cable was officially designed for the Microsoft Windows Easy Transfer utility, which is featured in Windows 7. All you need to do is connect the cable to USB ports on your old Windows XP or Vista computer to your new Windows 7 machine, and run the utility.

Easily Transfer User Accounts, PC Settings, Files, and More

Your user accounts, Windows settings, files and folders, pictures and photos, MP3s and other music, videos, program settings and program data, and e-mail messages, settings, and contacts will all be transferred over to your new computer without a fuss. Thanks to the "Map User Accounts" feature, the destination PC is not required to have matching User Accounts. Gone are the days of losing important email messages or having to reset all your user settings! 

Once the transfer done, a post migration report is generated, which gives you a comprehensive view of everything that was transferred. Because of possible incompatibility issues, programs and applications are not transferred to the new computer. Instead, the utility provides a list of all the programs and applications that were installed on the old PC along with links to the latest versions of the programs if they are provided by the software developer.

Advance notice

FYI, I'm changing the email for the blahg to writtenwyrdd AT live.com.  The old addy is still fine, my personal addy (if you have it, and many of you do) is still fine; but the official email for the blahg is the new one, forever and ever, amen.

And this is because I can thus receive my emails through my cellular phone.  Because Microsoft owns hotmail and Miscrosoft Live allows me to receive my linked email while on the road. 

It's just simpler when I'm not near a computer but MUST have my internet fix.

Next thing you know, I'll start tweeting from the damn thing.  (Heaven forfend.)

Know what I hate?

I hate when a perfectly good software is 'improved' until you can't use it any longer.  Microsoft is, obviously, the absolute worst example of doing this.  My super fast computer is so dog slow because of this lovely trend I could just spit on Bill Gates.  But the autoruns* program is helpful to fix that, at least.  But now my diet tracker software is 'improved' so much I can't even open it at work (and you know you need to log your lunch and what not or you conveniently forget the double vente or the three cookies your coworker waved under your nose) but also now it's my blogging program, which is also now improves so that I can't post comments at work.  I used to hate blogger; but now it's starting to look good again!

Can I just choke the living hell out of a software engineer?  Pleeeze??

*Yes, I should share this trick.  But be careful when you use it.  You can make your computer not run!  Anyhow, Start/ Run/ type in command autorun.exe/ then uncheck obvious stuff you don't want to run, because you will see a zillion things that hog your processing power that don't need to.  They'll start just fine when you tell them to open, they don't need to always be on to save a couple seconds when you want them to work! 

Word Tricks for Writers

A member of my critique group hooked me up with a couple of links regarding formatting your manuscripts if you use MS Word.  They're worth checking out here and here on Tia Nevitt's writing blog.