Ye Olde Rad Blog

Updated the Windows XP Installation guide to include two PDFs: one downloadable zipped version (55-KB), which contains the entire guide (all 4 pages) .. and another printer-friendly version (93-KB), which has the gray backgrounds removed to conserve toner/ink (8 pages).

People have been telling me for years that I should do a Windows-install guide .. that it would be a popular feature. Not sure why I didn't believe them. Maybe because there were already such guides out there.

So I guess it shouldn't surprise me to see how popular the guide has become .. in the few, short days since it was posted. It has been downloaded several thousand times already. But I can't find any single source for this traffic. Most of the time, when a particular guide sees heavy traffic, I can trace its origins back to a particular link from another site, such as Lockergnome. Not so this time. So I'm puzzled about where all this traffic is coming from.

Anyway, they were right: the Radified Windows Installation guide has become surprisingly popular. Maybe I should listen more carefully from now on. I'd like to thank everybody who wrote in to share their insights into the best way to install Windows. If the first few days are any indication, the guide will be a major success. No doubt, we'll continue to dial it in, but I feel like the lion's share is done.