{"id":4990,"date":"2010-02-12T18:11:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benie.beniesbuilds.com\/personal\/?p=841"},"modified":"2010-02-12T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:11:53","slug":"planning-to-upgrade-to-windows-7-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2010\/02\/12\/planning-to-upgrade-to-windows-7-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning to upgrade to Windows 7 tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I&#8217;m still thinking of the &#8220;what if&#8221;&#8216;s, and it&#8217;s kinda driving me crazy.<br \/>\nHow did I come up with the money to pay for Windows 7? I didn&#8217;t. In the Gold Forum of Facepunch, there&#8217;s a guy giving out free, genuine Windows CD Keys.<br \/>\nThe fact he&#8217;s a college student, and paid a certain amount of money, he can legally do this.<\/p>\n<p>So I PMed and got a key for Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and an ISO for it.<br \/>\nI got the ISO on a DVD-R, and have been writing down a step by step list to print out using father&#8217;s computer once again, to be used for tomorrow. But my brain keeps being filled with &#8220;what if&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Such as; &#8220;What if the key is wrong?&#8221;, &#8220;What if the installation fails?&#8221;, &#8220;What if my computer isn&#8217;t 64-bit compatible?&#8221;, &#8220;What if my games start crashing after installing 7?&#8221;, and one important one&#8230;&#8221;What if Fallout 3 still BSODs on me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If only I could see into the future and turn these &#8220;what if&#8221;&#8216;s into &#8220;this will&#8221; or &#8220;this won&#8217;t happen&#8221;&#8216;s.<br \/>\nBut I guess the only real way to know is to take one foot forward into this and go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I&#8217;m still thinking of the &#8220;what if&#8221;&#8216;s, and it&#8217;s kinda driving me crazy. How did I come up with the money to pay for Windows 7? I didn&#8217;t. In the Gold Forum of Facepunch, there&#8217;s a guy giving out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2010\/02\/12\/planning-to-upgrade-to-windows-7-tomorrow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}