Setting up a Windows 7 PC
Monday, February 13th, 2012This is my experience setting up a new Medion-PC (Intel i5) for someone (which confirms my strong opinion never to get a windows machine again).
10:23 Connecting everything, power cord, printer, scanner, mouse, keyboard, screen, sound.
10:31 Starting up for the first time!
10:32 Why am I being asked if I’d like to do a restore? And why does it display in text-mode like my ’286 back in 1990? The Windows logo displayed after that is kind of nice though. Seems like MS finally got rid of 320×240 legobrick-sized-pixels screen mode.
10:35 restarts (why?)
10:45 After having watched the computer setting itself up for about 10 more mintes, I finally get to enter some useful information. I set up an administrator account first. I get the idea blogging about the process.
10:58 Another restart for no apparent reason. The Windows startup screen informs me it’s still setting up for first use.
11:04 watchmi/Google Chrome appears in the upper left hand of the screen. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Several command line windows pop up and disappear disconcertingly.
Still preparing for first use.
11:07 It says “Welcome” now and informs me it’s, preparing my desktop.
11:08 hey, here’s my desktop! What are those eBay, Kapersky and Deutsche-Post-widgetsgadgets doing here? I suppose Medion put them there to enhance my user-experience. Well I don’t appreciate that. The Medion-Wallpaper displays pixelated. Maybe they didn’t think someone would have more than 1024×768 screen resolution. Changed the Wallpaper to standards, now it seems fine. Enlarged Icons/Text to enhance readability.
11:15 Starting Chrome. Thanks to Text enlargement now the EULA-text seems pretty blurry. Chrome is now running and text displays fine. Strange. Setting up the user account.
11:23 Changing users now. Icons on the big screen are tiny. Didn’t realize until after the second time I had to hit the arrow instead of “Change user”. Stupid.
11:24 It’s now warning me of some program (“watchmi”) that’s supposedly already running. I didn’t install it and I don’t want to have it running in the first place. I ignore this measage. For some reason it enlarges the screen for me (pixelated). I quit the screen enlarger and am done for now.
Well, that’s about one hour of setup, three restarts and an overall quite bothersome experience. Try the same on a Mac and you’ll see why…
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