Some casual IT tweaks

Long time no blog, but here I am, kinda overwhelmed with work but i need a short break so i decided to throw some “useful” information in case you didn’t know already.
I will use Windows 7 for my examples since i think its most common. Other Windows Versions may have different folder descriptions, but the main behaviour is the same.

In the past days i worked on many computers of friends, tried optimizing stuff and figured out that there is some general misunderstanding when it comes to computers at all.

Let’s start with quotes:

“My computer is totally full of data i think i need to format the system again, like you should do every 2 years or so” 

~ Well, no! Back in 1999 it was pretty common to format the HDD every now and then, cause Windows managed to crash every now and then refusing to boot the OS again.

First Blog of the century

Since thats my first blog ever, lets keep it short. ATM a friend of mine is looking for a game to play and he’s one of the most sophisticated guys i know when it comes to games. It’s hard to convince people on your childhood favorite games when they never playd them during their own childhood. Looking back on Gems like Zelda Majoras Mask or Final Fantasy VII and thinking: “Damn, that’s a good game! Try it out” and looking at your friend who gets easily bored of the gameplay is disappointing and destroying the illusions of timeless gems. Sure there are other games which never “die” like the Mega Man Series for NES. I could easily show my kids the games and they would play it i guess. But showing them FF VII and convince them of the total awesome plot would be more difficult task. Also on Jump n Runs, nonstorybased its easy to get into even if you didnt play it back when it was released. Spyro and Crash bandicoot seem to be timeless monsters you cant kill no matter what. I still experience kids picking them up, but yeah…not my friend. I’m really confused since i advised him the best games from 20 years of gaming history and still nothing really convinced him.