I’m off work for the rest of this week as I have friends visiting from England. It’s going to be blast! One of the many treats of living in Orlando is doing the tourist thing when visitors come a-knocking, but this is the first time a friend (as opposed to family) have come over, so I’m really looking forward to it.
Today I’m at home, pottering about tidying up and generally getting the place ready for a guest. When all the chores were done the bug to re-install Vista took over me (I had an issue last night getting a WPF application I”m working on to debug onXP) and so off I set.
Vista installed without a hitch as usual. Contrary to many of the scaremongering reports out there I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem getting Vista installed on something, even during the many betas. The problem I did get though (and am still having) is actually installed Visual Studio 2008 Professional. It just won’t go, crapping out every time the installer tries to put .NET framework 3.5 on my machine. The only thing that’s struck me so far as a possible reason is the mass of Vista updates my machine seems quite happy to quietly download and queue up for install. I wonder if the fact that they are sitting on the machine, waiting to get installed, puts the installation engine into a “do not install anything else yet” kind of mode.
I’m downloading the last few updates now (I think I’m up to about 200 updates so far), and then I’ll set about Service Pack 1. Hopefully after that Visual Studio 2008 will install.
Do you ever find when your machine is out of commission that you get these sudden intense urges to play a game, or pretty much do anything on the machine that’s currently out of commission and just find yourself getting angry at yourself that you can’t? No? Just me then I guess.
