Happiness is... no more VISTA
At long last I have wiped VISTA off my computer. I attempted to do a clean install of Vista as the kids were used to it, despite its faults. My 'clean' install turned out to have left half the hard drive still in use from the old Vista, as Vista.old or something. As I wiped it told me it would be 34 days and 0 hrs to wipe it all.
I knew that could not be true but gave it an hour to sort things out. I tried to re install the broadband modem, and as before Vista did not like its driver. Even the tech from the computer shop had taken one and a half hours to do it when first purchased.
In the end I chose to put XP in. An excellent move.
The modem was found and automatically installed in less than 15 seconds. Yes, this XP is a really good upgrade after Vista. Really good.
I must have rocks in my head to keep Vista in for so long. I'm using Opera version 10 beta 2 as a browser and it is fast on my Internet. Obviously there's things I can't control, like my broadband running at 4 BPS last night, is that a world record for slowness?
Now here's a bit I need some advice on. I have a problem with the Indonesian language “overlay” supplied with Windows XP. I put it in for a try as our extended household uses Indonesian the most.
Works OK but found that using the language bar to swap languages still left everything in Indonesian.
I removed the language option via control panel, however most things are still in Indonesian. Lucky I never picked some scribbly text language to put in.
Any thoughts how I can get rid of the “overlay”.