{"id":3817,"date":"2012-05-20T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T20:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2012-05-20T13:50:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T20:50:38","slug":"the-trouble-with-new-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/the-trouble-with-new-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble With New Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did get my new computer as planned. Great deal on it too. But it&#8217;s quite a jump going from an old Windows XP to Windows 7. It&#8217;s the little changes that make life so difficult some ways, and that&#8217;s certainly true in the differences between Windows XP and 7.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to officially call my laptop my main work computer. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s true. I only use the desktops when I&#8217;m doing work that is simply more comfortable on a bigger computer&#8230; or rather a full size mouse and keyboard. There are times when I still prefer those.<\/p>\n<p>The new computer went to my husband&#8217;s desk, not mine. His old computer will soon be set up on my desk for the kids to use when they want to play games&#8230; once I make the time to clean it off, and the dying computer&#8230;, well, it&#8217;s pretty near dead. Once I&#8217;m utterly positive I didn&#8217;t forget anything on it I&#8217;ll work on wiping the hard drive. Sadly, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjmagnetics.com\/blog.asp?p=hard-drive-destruction\">not as simple<\/a> as running a couple of neodymium magnets across it. I could have had fun with that, as we have a couple boxes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-1373603-10746449?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thinkgeek.com%2Fgeektoys%2Fscience%2Fbbe8%2F%3Fref%3Dc&amp;cjsku=8BBE8SKORIG\" target=\"_top\">BuckyBalls Magnetic Building Spheres<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ftjcfx.com\/image-1373603-10746449\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> sitting on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, it&#8217;s safer to write random data over and over on the old drive.<\/p>\n<p>The new computer is of course way more powerful than the old. That amuses me because it&#8217;s definitely a lower end model we bought this time, but not too low, while the old was a pretty good midrange in its day.<\/p>\n<p>On the minus side, I have to consider whether to buy new software or go open source on some of my favorites. I don&#8217;t use it much now, but my old computer had Dreamweaver on it. The version I have doesn&#8217;t run on Windows 7, so the upgrade would not be optional if I want it on the new machine. Same for some of my other programs.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I can delay and use my husband&#8217;s old machine for such things. Such are the advantages of updating the house one computer at a time. I still have time to figure these things out and find a solution without being completely depriving myself of familiar programs.<\/p>\n<p>The most difficult part with the new computer has been setting up individual user accounts. I had done that lightly with the older computers, and decided to do so for this one right from the start. Shared documents now go into a Public folder, and it took some time to figure that out. I&#8217;m still trying to decide how I want to make it so that it includes all my photos when the screensaver comes on. XP did that just fine, but because my photos are separated into subfolders, Windows 7 considers them to be in separate locations. 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