My 1+yr old Vista x64 install started repeatedly blue-screening. My parents were visiting (left this morning) and my computer-illiterate Mom must have done something 'bad'.
She spams me more often than other spammers! She was checking her webmail and (I'm told) she opened an email attachment that installed a codec to play a movie (she clicks 'OK' to everything).
Bammm! Game over.
Funny part was, She was logged in on my own account (as a "standard/restricted" user). Nobody uses the Admin acct unless I'm installing something or defragging the drives. I'm surprised a rogue app managed to get through my defenses. Thanks Mom!
I had already installed Win7 Pro x64 on a separate hard drive and was making sure all my apps were working fine before I made the switch.
My Mom made that decision for me...
All my files are recoverable from the Vista partition, but I'll be down for at least a few days while I move everything over to the Win7 partition which will now be my primary OS.
The Vista partition is completely unbootable. Not even safe-mode. I have no idea what happened. But Vista sucked anyway, so now it's gone.
For the time being, all DriverPacks development is on hold.
I'll be around, just not as often for the next week or so.
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