You might have noticed that there has been no new post since 30th of Nov. This is due to the state of my PC. I had been experiencing quite a bit of system errors, which was exacerbated my two disastrous attempts to apply the Vista SP2. So on the 28th, I reluctantly bought an OEM copy of Windows 7 Ultimate from a U.S. website.  (I said reluctantly because I feel that the prices charged by Microsoft for Windows is ridiculously high. But that’s another story). The next day, I bit the bullet and processed with the upgrade.

As I was looking for the least disruption to the system, I elected for an in-place upgrade. It didn’t take because my data directories (My Documents, etc) are placed on another disk. So it went for a new install, (which I prefer). It took just over 3 hours. But the reinstallation of my existing applications and settings will take a long while more. That’s what I’ve been doing since. It’s finally completed today. So it’s nose back against the grindstone from tomorrow.