Boot up!
OK, its slow, slower than XP by a fair old chalk. It also didn't quite get my background picture right(I chose a nice beach scene, it chose a mountain for me
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Set teh screen res manually, Looks pretty.... very much a cross between Mac OSX and KDE IMHO
try to set up my wireless network. Hmm, its identified the card OK, scans for networks, yep, I can see my target but no joy with connection. I'll look into that later, maybe at home where I can control teh encryption.
Lets see what is installed.
now, totally different to XP the 'start' menu(as it no longer says 'Start' ) has a different look and feel to XP. There is a left hand 'pane' which opens up as you click on folders. Its never really large so for those who install lots of programs they could find themselves scrolling around a lot.
Games: opening teh games folder prompts you to see if you want to keep up to date with games that you have installed. It seems that Microsoft really expect you to be net connected 100% of time and want to get you 'reporting home' what you have installed. Almost everything I've done up to now has been covered with a 'we can help you by sending your information off' type option. Don't get me wrong but I'm one who believes in privacy and I really don't want all and sundry collecting data about me. If I want to check I've got teh latest XYZ then I will, I don't need Windows to be doing it when I don't know about it.
Thge usual fav's are there, Minesweeper, hearts, solitaire, freecell and a new chess game(3d). One thing I don't liek is that under the name of teh game is a link to teh manufacturer of that game. When I went to double click teh game to start it I accidentally caught the name which then opened two IE windows trying to go to Microsoft.
anyway, need to come back to this, more later