Who came here for help and then decided to stay??

[NinaJay]

Me!

Joined a week ago to get someone to help me with my BSoD issues (which have not been resolved despite everyone's best efforts ), and thought this was a pretty cool, friendly forum.

TBH, I usually hang out on parenting forums and this has been a nice change of pace.

As I wrote in my intro on the welcome thread, I am not sure how much I can contribute (technically challenged which is unfortunate considering the calibre of IT gurus in my immediate family) but I don't know, I really kinda like it here.

So fess up... who came here just to get advice or help and decided to stay??

 

[John Ulbricht]

Me too... Still having problems, but now trying to help where I can. Very friendly people.

 

[srq2625]

I came here investigating Widows 7 when it was in the pre-RC stage, just wondering what it was. Was able to glom onto (that's the technical term ) various builds in both 32- and 64-bit versions. Got hooked.

This is one of the most friendly forums I've been to and I really appreciate the efforts of the mods to keep things clean and legal.

 

[NinaJay]

I agree with it being one of the friendliest forums and haven't seem evidence of over- modding. Would like to contribut more but need to learn more first. I am the black 'techno' sheep of my family.

 

[rsvr85]

I was recommended here by a friend when i had some partitioning issues.
gregrocker (if my memory serves correct) came to the rescue and helped me immensely.

It was some months later i was browsing the amazing tutorial section and noticed we could submit our own, i did and the rest is history.

 

[Barman58]

I came here from the Vista Forums where I initially arrived from Google whilst researching an issue. Don't even remember the actual issue

Found the forum was unlike the vast majority of others I'd used in the past, and found myself coming back more and more, as much for the community as the just technical content, (which is always of a higher quality than most other forums).

 

[NinaJay]

I have found some very helpful people here but unfortunately my problem wasn't an easy fix and my new computer has gone back to the supplier. Turn around will be slow given the time of year - so very very annoying.

Was loving windows 7 in the brief moments I could experience it and can't wait to get back onto it again.

 

[garysgold]

I showed up at Vistax64 for help, and learned so much that I decided I needed to give something back. Thought I'd spend a few weeks helping where I could. 22 months later. :shock:

 

[Tews]

I came here for help with activation and kept coming back for the invaluable assistance...The rest is history!

 

[swarfega]

I was googling for an answer with a vista problem and so arrived at vista64 forums and then just followed the link to here when the forum went live.

 

[NinaJay]

Wow all these gurus with humble beginnings.

Perhaps, there's hope for me yet...

 

[smarteyeball]

Would like to contribute more but need to learn more first. I am the black 'techno' sheep of my family.

The beauty of this place is, that while you are learning, you can always still kick back and contribute in other ways. It doesn't always have to be of a technical nature.

So Black Sheep away

 

[Kari]

I have been using various beta versions and then RC since early January. Found the Seven Forums when googling answer to a very annoying issue with disappearing Start Menu programs. That time, the answer was found not here but in Microsoft TechNet forums. Anyway, I stayed because of the vaste amount of information I found.

I was later very satisfied when I could share the solution here (http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/18351-all-programs-gone-again.html#post197162).

Kari

 

[NinaJay]

Would like to contribute more but need to learn more first. I am the black 'techno' sheep of my family.

The beauty of this place is, that while you are learning, you can always still kick back and contribute in other ways. It doesn't always have to be of a technical nature.

So Black Sheep away

I always tell my family, they got the brains and I got the looks and charisma

I'm content being the black sheep anyway... can never be anything else when your dad was the one who created http://centrebet.com originally

 

[TGSoldier]

I came here for help with a problem with my display on Windows 7 ( http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/19858-choppy-windows-windows-7-a.html ). 5 months later, I'm still here. Been inactive for a while though =[

But an excellent , excellent forum.

 

[smarteyeball]

I always tell my family, they got the brains and I got the looks and charisma

I'm content being the black sheep anyway...

lol, being a black sheep isn't so bad - at least you don't get lost in the crowd

 

[pparks1]

I came here after a new computer build in July with Windows 7 RC1 and was having a problem with high random access speeds on my new box and a Seagate 7200.12 hard drive. (was seeing around 25-40ms). After discussing it with many here and doing everything imaginable..I simply put the 7200.12 in another machine at home and got a Western Digital Caviar black and was getting the 13ms speeds I was expecting.

 

[zigzag3143]

I came to vista with multiple problems, the fix I found here. Win 7. stayed because of the staff knowledge and learned.

 

[ITGIRL]

I came to windows 7 via Google search. I was having problems viewing other pcs on my network. Everyone was so friendly and was willing to help me out as much as they could. I have learned so much about win 7 and thankful for it.

Special thanks to Ken(georgy) for helping me get used to the forum and troubleshooting well everything!

 

[MattRainier]

I came because I needed help with an explorer.exe stability issue, and then decided to stay because everyone here was friendly, and I thought I might be able to contribute.