Filed under: Windows
Reinstall Windows without the risk
by Jordan Running May 22nd 2006
Though I've had a pretty good run, I know in my heart that I really ought to reinstall Windows. As anyone who has gone though that particular ordeal knows, however, it's much easier said than done, and getting back into your carefully-tweaked workflow after a reinstall can take, quite literally, months, and the day you realize you forgot to backup that one Really Important File is a sad day indeed. So how can you reinstall Windows without the risks? Virtualization. Now, we featured a similar tip a few months back, but Márton Anka has written a handy tutorial that teaches you how to back up your entire system to a VMWare image that you can load, without a reboot, every time you need something from your old Windows install. Now, if only I had the spare hard drive space for this...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
