What's your SF story?

This thread is for telling your story on why you joined SevenForums. My story:

I had my old computer fixed by a technician in April 2013 along with my old laptop. After the desktop was fixed, I accidentally thought that my old desktop lost hard drive space after the technician did a clean install of Windows 7. (Before it was Windows XP) I actually found out that I just had bad memory and it was the same space as before. After that, I stayed on this website to ask other questions about my computers that I had occasionally. I also started helping people out from my experience and I have come all the way to this point. These days though, sadly I don't have much free time to just come on the forums unless I have a problem of my own. Thanks everyone that has helped me so far. I really appreciate it. :)

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My story:

When I got windows 7 for the first time, I wanted ultimate, but got home premium. I wanted ultimate for the virtual XP feature, so I got a replacement, VMWare.
I installed virtual XP in VMWare (my first attempt with such a thing, I did not know about vmware tools), but I was not happy with its performance, so asked for help. And that is what happened in the result: Problem! Video is slow in virtula xp.

Well, doesn't that thread give a perfect idea about me?

Not much of a story to tell, I came from Vista Forums, and I joined there because I felt like I needed to help people who had vista but hated it (convince them it wasn't so bad), the trend didn't continue to 8 forums though as I wasn't really interested myself in Metro UI, but i'm certainly looking to do 10.

vista forums profile: View Profile: MrNeeds - Vista Support Forums

I'd joined Vistax64 after seeing the link in a newsgroup post by Brink, after that I just followed John and Co. each time they started a new one, just like a bad penny I turn up everywhere.

I was going to school to be a network administrator, I had been using Mac OSX for several years and had bought a Windows 7 Thinkpad for school. I joined this forum to learn everything about Win 7. I now use it everyday at work and home so I stay here to stay up to date.

I made the HUGE move from XP-Pro to Windows 7. Just found this forum to learn about Windows 7.
Didn't take long to get comfortable with Windows 7 as long as I didn't treat Windows 7 the way I use to treat XP.

I have been hanging around like a maggot on a dead horse ever sense.

Microsoft's sometimes very confusing windows updates is the reason I'm here. A weird SP1 was offered last year, even to users who already had SP1 installed. No one knew what it was so I registered only to share my own findings about it: an update labeled with the wrong kb number

I started with the Vista forums and then just followed the evolution - 7, 8.1 and 10 with a sidetrack to the PC Help Forums which unfortunately looks pretty dead now.

Yep you paint a pretty picture Jack :)

But I'm about the same I wasn't on Vista for more than a month before a free upgrade to win-7 arrived from the manufacture for my recent purchase of this desktop,

I then bought win-7 for my lappy and started out mostly on Microsoft community and followed help links to SevenForums mostly to Shawn's amazing work :)

Joined back then but didn't last very long 2012 + -
I have since grown up and a bit less angry
Stuck around and got into graphic's here more than anything with a dash of Internet explorer help :)