User:Kiki79250CoC

Quick Presentation
I'm a random 18-year-old French guy who loves Windows 7 and it's Windows Aero UI. I like this UI so muck than I still use this OS in 2021 ! I Also likes Vista cuz wihout Vista we don't have Windows 7...

I have also the projet to quit France and go to Canada (especially to Québec); because France is a pretty bad country. ''-> Si tu arrives à lire ce que j'écris là tout de suite maintenant, eh bien mes félicitations, car tu parles bien le Français. Mais attention hein, le Français de base, pas le Français des régions... Et encore moins que Québécois...''

- Kiki79250CoC, 24 January 2021 in this page.

Prologue // Before Feb. 2011 : The first interactions with a PC
In 2008, it was my very first interaction with a computer. I remember see my father with his Windows 98 Acer PC, and my mother with her Windows XP one. I also remember than how I discovered Paint, just by reading the "How to use Windows 98" guide provided by Acer. Sometimes, I also used the computer for playing some games (Pinball yeah !)

Chapter 1 // Feb. 2011 - 2013 : The beginnings
I started using a computer by myself in February 2011 when I was 8, with Windows XP. At that time, I was still new to computers, but that didn't prevent me from going to tweak the computer settings, so much so that my parents had to put passwords everywhere, just to that I cannot modify the computer settings. Except that after a month I managed to connect to my parents' user account and I started modifying the settings again, much to my parents' dismay.

In 2012, the first PC I used broke, with the hard drive having stopped working. My parents bought me a PC for me and I continued to mess around as always. This PC lasted 3 years before I destroyed the Windows XP installation by removing System32 ... Oops.

In 2013 my mom bought a laptop, again running Windows XP, except I was around and after several months I ended up crashing the PC by changing the BIOS settings, preventing it from booting.

Chapter 2 // Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2016 : The Linux period
In 2014 and 2015, the Department (Deux-Sèvres) launched an operation to computerize households without large financial means. We were able to get one computer in 2014 and another one in 2015. These computers both running a modified Linux Mint 14 distro. The first one stopped working in mid-2016 after trying to add a second hard drive.

The BIOS had displayed information in red, only since I was bad at English I didn't understand anything, so I hit a few keys and accidentally formatted both hard drives with data in them. RIP my data, because backups were stored on the hard drive that I wanted to add on this PC.

The second one stopped working at the end of 2016, the Linux had some difficulty starting but would start if you were to insist. It ended up not starting up after an update.

During this period (in December 2015 - January 2016), I got a temporary PC with Windows Vista SP2 installed, which was my sole Windows moment during this time at home.

It was also during this period (in fall-2014) than I started to develop some little programs in Visual Basic, such as a Internet Explorer-based navigator, called "Kiki Ter Net" (Please don't request me why I called this like that, I dunno anymore) and a YouTube link shortener, just by replacing the  part with. This tool is the sole I kept during the passed years with his source code.

Chapter 3 // Dec. 2016 - Oct. 2018 : The Celeron Dell PC
In December 2016, after unsuccessful attempts to restart the Linux PC, my mother made the decision to buy a PC, preferably running Windows.

This PC was a Dell PC, an Optiplex 380, 64-bit processor and 4 GB of RAM. When we received it, this PC was running Windows 7 Professional. This Dell PC was the result of many projects, including the not easy and multiple attempts to upgrade to Windows 10 in June/July 2017...

This period is similar to a torture room in which you are forced to listen to "Baby Shark" over and over ...

The first attempt to install Windows 10 on this PC was on 28 June 2017, and I remember doing everything to avoid this problem, which it did.

The part where I suffered is when I installed some software, I restart the PC and Windows 10 will never restart... And it was after the 17th attempt, 2 months later, that I was finally able to fix this problem and finally be able to fully use Windows 10, by deleting the partition that contained Windows 7. I also have a weird thing with Windows that appeared since this date, because I now have the habit to give a name on every Windows installation I made in my Computer that I will use for months (or years). This first Windows 10 install was named "L'upgrade infernal" (The infernal upgrade).

I continued to use this PC until the end of October 2018, when the hard drive died miserably upon restarting the PC.

Chapter 4 // Nov. 2018 - Dec. 2019 : Windows 10 BlueScreen Edition
In November 2018, I bought myself a new PC, which is actually my current Toaster. Like the Dell PC, it ran Windows 7 Professional.

This PC is by far the one that made me hate Windows 10, and I thank it for that.

In November 2018, I bought this PC because it had a much better CPU than the previous one. He also had more RAM and with a hard drive with a higher capacity.

This PC was running Windows 10 from 8 November 2018 to 31 December 2019, and I can tell you now, it was a HORROR! And It's also for this reason that I called this installation "Disaster10". Just that.

The latter had a daily Blue Screen, even two or three if he was in his worst days. His record for continuous days without BSOD is 7 all stack. On the 8th day, he planted as usual.

The reason why it remained installed until 31 December 2019 is that I had no faith to reinstall it.

Except that this reinstallation, I had to do it on 01 January 2020 because the installation ended on 31 December by never restarting after an update... Yes, an update. Like the previous one running Linux...

Chapter 5 // Jan. 2020 - Jun. 2021 : The Resurrection of Windows 7
On 01 January 2020, I convinced myself not to reinstall Windows 10, because I was definitely fed up with all-out crashes, which occur all the time, without warning. That's why I reinstalled Windows 7 before convincing myself on 14 January to don't do the upgrade again. I called this install "Liberty"

Because after all, Windows 10 was crashing all the time, while Windows 7 was running perfectly. Not a crash, what a good life ...

So that's why today my PC is still running on this OS ... And since that date I hate Windows 10 like never before. Every time I have to use it I feel disgusted, since Windows 7 is billions of times better ...

I just made a Fresh Reinstall of Windows 7 in 3 April 2021 due to some bugs provocked by various modifications and also due to the ESU .NET Framework update error "code 643", who prevent it from installing. Since this reinstall, this update install successfully. And since this is a direct successor to "Liberty", I simply called this new Installation "Liberty II".

Chapter 6 // Jul. 2021 - Now : First time to UEFI
On 26 June 2021, I definitively confirmed the fact than my 10-year-old PC is totally UEFI capable, 2 years and 7 months after using it with Legacy BIOS mode. Even if this is not for Windows 11 upgrade (lol), I started to plan a second OS change, only ~3 months after clean install. This "migration" was seriously pushed because of the slowness of the Western Digital drive. When I reinstalled Windows 7 in april, I wanted to make my Seagate drive for data because unlike WD it has more storage space. However, It was a big error. The Western Digital drive is so slow than Windows taked more time to start and react than my previous Windows 7 installation. A problem when a major good point of a reinstall is "your PC will be faster than ever".

So on 29 June at 4:30 AM, I started by convert my Data Hard Disk to GPT, and Install Windows (7, I hate 10) on it. I finished by convert the second disk to GPT. I'm officially passed from BIOS to UEFI without big difficulties. So, my PC is faster when installed on the Seagate instead of the Western Digital. It's good.

This installation is a bit a successor (again) of "Liberty" and "Liberty II", so my non-originality named it "Liberty III".

Operating System
My current operating system is Windows 7 Service Pack 1. It have a bunch of customization like Theme (a custom "7 Squared" theme), Sounds, Cursors and even Login Screen background...

The sound Scheme used on my machine is very special... It's a mix of the Fake Longhorn Sounds and the Windows 10X UAC sound for... UAC.

This one was installed on my Computer on January 1, 2020, after 14 month of daily Windows 10 crashes.

This installation happened one day after my Windows 10 installation (who was my main OS even if it crash everyday) has died (Since this date I really  HATE  Windows 10 so much you can't imagine).

I also Installed DisplayFusion on it, because taskbar on each screen is a very usefull feature and Windows 7 don't have it.

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Images Gallery
I Uploaded (Or created) these images since I joined BetaWiki :NOTE : The Windows 7 build 7279 Winver wasn't uploaded by me due to some image upload restrictions for non-autoconfirmed members. Norman does this upload for me. However, I'm been the "image creator".