Alright! So I got Windows 7 RC from a pal and installed it last night after I got it home. The Beta I had was an early version and had somehow expired - it gave me the whole 'gonna shut down in an hour' type message, so I bugged Jim for the RC. He had already burned me a copy and had it with him.

Got home, tossed it on the machine and things are good. The Beta I had seemed to have more cool stuff with it, but oh well... none of it was stuff I'm likely to use anyway. I guess that's how they hook you - promise all sorts of cool stuff early on, then when you get closer to the real deal, they yank some of it back.

I was also happy to find that nVidia had some '7' drivers for my ASUS GeForce 8500 vid card... so everything actually looks a bunch crisper and brighter on this old 21" Dell CRT of mine... even at 1600x1200. I'm still trying to dump the resolution back down to more reasonable levels, but it drops the image size and centers it, rather than drop the resolution and stretch to fit the monitor. Kinda sucks, but I've got it back out to 1600x1200, and just zoom in the web pages that are tough to read. (Sigh) Oh well - progress, right?

I was also happy to find a cool Mahjong game added to the stack of games offered. Sad - all this new computer horsepower goodness, and I'm playing Spider Solitaire and Microsoft Mahjong.