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Display driver updates on the Li3710

As you’ll see in a previous post, I reverted to Windows on my Amilo, in order to play Steam games. I was very disappointed to discover that on running L4D2, my system blue screened and then rebooted. After some Google-ing, I discovered that there are a lot of idiots in the world. From Yahoo! Canada Answers:

There are 3 step to repair blue screen crash error

If you got blue screen crash error then there is a 94% chance that your computer has registry problems. To repair blue screen crash error you need to follow the steps below:

Windows XP PowerToys

I always found that the Microsoft PowerToys to be very useful, but you never really hear about them. Hence, here is my review of the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP.

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of programs provided by Microsoft for the Windows operating system. PowerToys are not integrated into Windows since they are released after the public release of a Windows operating system. They are also not under technical support because they do not undergo the same rigorous testing that the operating system components do.

Installing Windows XP on the Fujitsu Amilo Li3710

My Amilo originally came with Windows Vista installed, which in my opinion was a terrible operating system, and Windows 7 is no better. I want to use applications, not the OS, and Microsoft increasingly does not understand this concept. I was happy with Ubuntu as the sole OS running on the machine for a time, but later found that I did actually need to run some Windows specific applications that did not run well in Wine (i.e. Steam).

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