Yesterday I finally decided to install Windows Vista on my laptop. This actually wasn't the first time I installed Vista on my laptop, but the first time I did it (which was during the beta period of Vista), I noticed that the drivers of my laptop weren't compatible with Vista. So I had to uninstall the whole thing again and install XP back on it. Which was a pain in the ass, cause my laptop took frickin' ages to install XP because of all the extra software that's on the recovery disc of my laptop. That's why I hesitated to install Vista at this point, cause Vista officially launched just this Wednesday. And I had to make sure that there were drivers availabe that are Vista compatible. And luckily they were available now! So I just couldn't resist installing the new OS :)!

And yes, I'm running Windows Vista completely legal, since my school has a contract with a company that has contracts with Micrsoft to let students download Microsoft software legally. So I decided to install Vista on my laptop, but after installing all the drivers, I noticed the Fn (function) keys on my laptop wasn't working. Which was very frustrating, cause I need those Fn keys to work for adjusting volume, brightness etc.! And on top of that...one of the drivers I had installed caused a fucking annoying error message that wouldn't go away! The only option that was displayed in that little error message was to click "ok" and then he would put the laptop in sleep mode. Arghh...I tried finding a way to get rid of this error message, but it just wouldn't go away.


So I decided to reinstall Vista AGAIN...btw by the time this happend it was almost midnight! So during the installation of Vista on my laptop, I went online on our other computer, trying to find a driver that would make the Fn keys to work. Finally after searching several forums I had found the solution. Someone found the drivers that would make the Fn keys work in Vista. So I quickly downloaded the drivers and installed it and whaddaya know...it works!! Yay!! So I'm running Vista on my laptop now and I really like it so far. Ofcourse the interface looks way cooler than XP. I'm still thinking about buying an extra memory module to make my laptop faster, since Vista takes up a lot of memory. And adding more memory would make working with Photoshop and other "heavy" programs a lot easier and faster! But I don't know if I'm going to do that, since Vista is already running pretty smoothly. I must say Vista installed pretty quickly, only installing all of the software that I use took ages ofcourse, cause I use a lot of programs. We'll see...let's see how I feel about Vista a couple weeks from now.

By the time I had installed all of the essential software (i.e. antivirus, firewall, Office 2007 etc.) it was almost three o' clock in the morning. So I definitely slept in today, since I went to bed pretty late. Oh well, it was worth it :). Ok enough tech talk for today hehe...talk to you later!