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Since I had been playing around with many versions of Windows, I can now say which one has the most prompt during installation, which one is the most anoying to setup, which one has the least prompt, and which one is the least anoying to setup.

Note these lists only include 32bit versions of Windows, since earlier 16bit is no dout the most anoying and has the most prompt.

Most prompts: Windows 95 OSR 2.5.

Yep, Windows isn’t smart enough back then. You almost have to set in front of your PC, watching it do some stuff, waiting for something to pop up, even it will take up to an hour. But thanks God that you could install Windows 95 through CD!

Most anoying: Original Windows 95 and Windows 95 OSR1.

Yep, it’s extremely anoying, especially when installing through floppy(there are 14 disks in the box)! Plus you have to sit there, predicting which is the next disk Windows will ask. This is especially true during the second phase of the installation. In this phase, you can’t predict what is the next disk Windows will ask, it’s just completely random. It may ask for Disk 7, or 10, or 5, or etc. Even if you have a CD version, you still have to copy the entire ‘win95’ folder to the hard drive and direct the setup to that path! Oh, the original Windows 95 doesn’t even detect the hardware correctly!

The least prompt: Windows 7.

Yep, Windows is now smart enough to do stuff on its own, and so there are very few prompts other than errors. This means that after you configure the hard drive and partitions, you can take a shower, or even go somewhere else for 30 minutes. When you return, you’ll find that Windows has almost finished installing, you just now have to put in your user details, adjust some settings, and put in your product key if you have one. Windows 7 is also smart enough to detect your hardware, and install the right driver for your hardware right out-of-the-box. Updating drivers is easy through Windows update.

The least anoying: Windows XP and 7.

These 2 version is the least anoying, partly due to very few prompts. But the main reason that these 2 are the least anoying is because they can detect the hardware correctly. But for XP you still need to install the drivers yourself, and for 7 it’s automatically installed.

What do you think will happen to the setup routines in Windows 8? Is it going to be more anoying? Have more prompts? Have lesser prompts? Or less anoying? Tell me what you think in the comments below!

Since I had been playing around with many versions of Windows, I can now say which one has the most prompt during installation, which one is the most anoying to setup, which one has the least prompt, and which one is the least anoying to setup.

Note these lists only include 32bit versions of Windows, since earlier 16bit is no dout the most anoying and has the most prompt.

Most prompts: Windows 95 OSR 2.5.

Yep, Windows isn’t smart enough back then. You almost have to set in front of your PC, watching it do some stuff, waiting for something to pop up, even it will take up to an hour. But thanks God that you could install Windows 95 through CD!

Most anoying: Original Windows 95 and Windows 95 OSR1.

Yep, it’s extremely anoying, especially when installing through floppy(there are 14 disks in the box)! Plus you have to sit there, predicting which is the next disk Windows will ask. This is especially true during the second phase of the installation. In this phase, you can’t predict what is the next disk Windows will ask, it’s just completely random. It may ask for Disk 7, or 10, or 5, or etc. Even if you have a CD version, you still have to copy the entire ‘win95’ folder to the hard drive and direct the setup to that path! Oh, the original Windows 95 doesn’t even detect the hardware correctly!

The least prompt: Windows 7.

Yep, Windows is now smart enough to do stuff on its own, and so there are very few prompts other than errors. This means that after you configure the hard drive and partitions, you can take a shower, or even go somewhere else for 30 minutes. When you return, you’ll find that Windows has almost finished installing, you just now have to put in your user details, adjust some settings, and put in your product key if you have one. Windows 7 is also smart enough to detect your hardware, and install the right driver for your hardware right out-of-the-box. Updating drivers is easy through Windows update.

The least anoying: Windows XP and 7.

These 2 version is the least anoying, partly due to very few prompts. But the main reason that these 2 are the least anoying is because they can detect the hardware correctly. But for XP you still need to install the drivers yourself, and for 7 it’s automatically installed.

What do you think will happen to the setup routines in Windows 8? Is it going to be more anoying? Have more prompts? Have lesser prompts? Or less anoying? Tell me what you think in the comments below!

Hey guys,

Since it’s about half year now into my web hosting adventure with various hosts, I would like to made the top-pick for the best host.

I had tried many hosts, but they are too limited in features.

The 3 host that I will review is Just Host, X10hosting, and Webs. They’re the best 3.

The top-pick goes to Just Host. They have a very good support, fast servers, anytime-money back, CPanel, scripts installer, site builder, and more. Starting as low as $6.95/month. Just host offers 3 plans – basic, premium, and reseller. Their terms of service is also quite easy to understand as long as you know English.

Second choice – X10hosting. They offer both free and paid. They have a support community, a extensive wiki, and best of all – you could sign up for a free account and then later upgrade to a paid account. They offer CPanel, scripts installer, and some other basic features like mail, FTP, and PHPMyadmin. The paid hosting has more features like unlimited databases, faster servers, and more features in CPanel like backups. They also offer VPS hosting. Their terms of service is also quite easy to understand, again only if you know English.

Note: If you’re going to try the free X10hosting, I recommend that you install only light scripts like MyBB and FluxBB. I’d had many issues with WordPress, specifically updating plugins, themes and the core application itself.

Third place and the most uncomfortable environment was Webs. They didn’t offer much, apart from MySQL and PHP. Their control panel is quite difficult to understand and use. I think their main goal was their easy website creation service which did not include PHP and MySQL. Their very long terms of service can be confusing and difficult to understand, especially if you don’t know English very much.

One thing that these 3 hosts have in common is that they all forbids warez, phishing, copyright infringement and nulled scripts. These 3 hosts all offers PHP and MySQL hosting.

Hey guys,

Since it’s about half year now into my web hosting adventure with various hosts, I would like to made the top-pick for the best host.

I had tried many hosts, but they are too limited in features.

The 3 host that I will review is Just Host, X10hosting, and Webs. They’re the best 3.

The top-pick goes to Just Host. They have a very good support, fast servers, anytime-money back, CPanel, scripts installer, site builder, and more. Starting as low as $6.95/month. Just host offers 3 plans – basic, premium, and reseller. Their terms of service is also quite easy to understand as long as you know English.

Second choice – X10hosting. They offer both free and paid. They have a support community, a extensive wiki, and best of all – you could sign up for a free account and then later upgrade to a paid account. They offer CPanel, scripts installer, and some other basic features like mail, FTP, and PHPMyadmin. The paid hosting has more features like unlimited databases, faster servers, and more features in CPanel like backups. They also offer VPS hosting. Their terms of service is also quite easy to understand, again only if you know English.

Note: If you’re going to try the free X10hosting, I recommend that you install only light scripts like MyBB and FluxBB. I’d had many issues with WordPress, specifically updating plugins, themes and the core application itself.

Third place and the most uncomfortable environment was Webs. They didn’t offer much, apart from MySQL and PHP. Their control panel is quite difficult to understand and use. I think their main goal was their easy website creation service which did not include PHP and MySQL. Their very long terms of service can be confusing and difficult to understand, especially if you don’t know English very much.

One thing that these 3 hosts have in common is that they all forbids warez, phishing, copyright infringement and nulled scripts. These 3 hosts all offers PHP and MySQL hosting.

Well, it’s halfway through 2011, so I thought to make a quick summary of what’s happening during the first half of 2011.

Note the 5 best/worst events will be in by the end of the year when I make the ‘2011 summery’.

January: Nothing really, apart from the amazing year 9 residential to Chiang Mai, and the horrible 21st January event.

February: Quite interesting, especially the New Zealand Earthquake, the Egypt and Libyan protests and WordPress 3.1 release. Other than that it’s quite boring, apart from the year 9 computer shop presentation, sports day, ASDAN temple trip, and my birthday.

March: Shockingly interesting – threatening Japan Earthquake of March 11th, IE9 release, Pokemon Black/White released in US and UK, and Firefox 4 release. Other than that it’s quite boring once again – ASDAN mosque trip, year 9 humanity project and Thai newspaper project.

April: Nutral – Songkran Day, holiday trip to Japan, and royal wedding.

May: Nutral – the death of Bin Laden, other than that it’s extremely boring – stupid ASDAN trip to Lumpini park that is very boring plus it even rains, and end-of-year exam preparation. Also on the 19th may was exactly 1 year after the deadly protest in Bangkok, which resulted in 91 people dead. Most of you may still remember being told not to go outside and to stock up on food and water supplies. Until now the signs of the violence is still there. Burnt buildings are still being reconstructed.

June: Holy crap, but cool – WordPress 3.2 release, Firefox 5 release, Windows Thin PC release, SMF 2.0 release, and Office 2010 SP1 release. Other than that it’s crap - exams, and boring Thai radio show that is virtually nothing but just a piece of drama from the 1950s/1960s that is very, very boring and not fun – I’m in a group that non of the members have editing skills to make the output perfect! Plus, another group don’t even know how to burn the whole show on to CD, which is very stupid have to play from the recorder! Other than that, it’s quite fun – house dance competition, house basketball competition, and house music competition. Oh yes at the end of the year I got a year book and about 8-9 people signed my book which is cool!

Hope the second half will be more fun, because there’s enough pieces of crap in the first half.

Today I will show you how you can convert Office 2010 Professional Plus to just Professional! Pretty easy!

Note in the about page will still says Professional Plus as this tutorial will use the Professional Plus installation DVD.

What Professional edition contains;

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Onenote, Access and Publisher.

Steps:

1. Go to add/remove programs(Windows XP) or programs and features(Windows Vista/7).

2. Find Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010.

3. Right-click and select change.

4. Select the first option which will starts with ‘A’.

5. Remove Infopath and Sharepoint by right-clik the item and select the thing with a red mark.

6. Insert your Office Professional Plus DVD, then click next or Continue(I can’t remember).

7. Wait for it to complete.

8. Click close and say yes to reboot.

9. When you were back on the desktop, go to the Microsoft Office folder in the start menu. You should see that the number of components is exactly the same as in Professional Edition of Office.

By doing it in this way, you don’t have to re-activate anything. Your product key will still work!

Sorry for not updating the blog for a while, I was a bit busy.

It’s holiday at last! Year 9 has officially ended! 7 weeks off! Also comes along with the end of year 9 was the releases of some software. Most importantly Firefox 5 and Office 2010 SP1. So if you haven’t done so, please update your system.