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Mar29

Vista SP1 Breaks Up with External Hard Drives

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Vista SP1 Western Digital Hard Drive MyBook Home

After being all excited about installing Service Pack 1, Vista SP1 has completely failed me! I installed it on both my desktop computer and my laptop. Everything was running great until I wanted to backup my files to my Western Digital MyBook Home Edition. That is when the troubles started!

Now, Vista keeps telling me “unknown hardware” after I plug the USB cable into the computer. I know these external hard drives are plug and play. It should be very simple to use. Just plug in the USB and start transferring files over! Unfortunately it wasn’t!

After troubleshooting this “unknown hardware” and looking for new drivers for it, I was just about to give up. I then decided to uninstall Vista SP1 on my laptop while I am waiting to talk to Microsoft Support through their online chat. After SP1 gets done uninstalling, Read the rest of this entry »

Feb1

Microhoo!?

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Microhoo!

Waking up this morning to hear the big news today of Microsoft bidding to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion was a bit of a surprise for me. We all know Yahoo has been suffering behind the leading search engine powerhouse Google and continuing to fall even more behind. Microsoft has tried this once before with Yahoo declining and saying they will change, but have they done enough change to stay as Yahoo? Or will we see a new Microhoo!

Personally, I hope they come to me after the merger and ask if they can use the new name of Microhoo! What do you think?