Windows 7

Windows 7

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 on my laptop, because I was fed up of Vista. Anyone familiar with computers might notice that Vista is really slow (I only noticed this properly when my friend introduced me to his Mac), the reason for this massive lag in speed is that Vista comes by default with a whole bunch of pointless programs running in the background eating up all the computer’s memory. Originally I attempted to sort it out by going through a list from the internet of different programs that you can stop without ruining your computer: such as Infrared Monitor Service (very useful seeing as I don’t have anything Infrared on my PC). However when I discovered an offer of Windows 7 available for students for £30 (instead of about £70), I decided it was worth it, for my sanity’s sake.

Windows 7 seems great so far: it’s a lot slicker; it takes my computer about 2 minutes to restart and get back to where I was before (instead of like 6 minutes); I like the layout which is user friendly (some people compare it to Macs, but I think it is sufficiently different); and the special visual effects don’t seem to slow it down to a snail’s pace.

I think that a similar thing can happen to us sometimes: life can occasionally feel very noisy what with all the ‘processes’ running in the backgrounds of our minds, and sometimes we can get bogged down with pointless things and ‘run’ a lot slower. Sorting out junk mail for instance is one of my pet hates, just because it takes up so much time (especially owing to the fact I have more than one inbox).
Junk mail isn’t just emails though: I try and put junk snail mail in the bin without even opening it; and I refuse as much physical literature as possible that people try and hand out to me on the streets, or at university etc, just because it takes so long to try and sort through it all, and I usually end up keeping half of it and it just clutters up my desk space.

Something else that seems pointless and often doesn’t get done is reading all the ‘terms and conditions’ for things. Most people just agree to terms and conditions without even reading them (which is bad really), because if you read all the terms and conditions for everything these days, you would probably still be there now. Banks also seem to continuously send you updates to their policies (which you need a degree in banking to understand anyway); they are probably just trying to blag your head so that they can get away with things!

I just wish life could be a bit simpler and user friendly sometimes, like Windows 7 :)

(If you are a student or lecturer and are interested in purchasing a copy of Windows 7 for your PC for £30 or a copy of Office 2007 for £38.95, please support me by using the below link, thanks.)

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