We came back tonight to finish the Military Quarter and give Sapphiron a try. We ended up steam-rolling the military quarter (except for that one triple-pat-pull with the added shade, my bad) and then stomping Sapphiron pretty easily. We two shot the icey-dragon, but it only took two tries because he ice-blocked two people that were ridiculously far away from half the raid because we weren’t moving in tandem. Anyway, the second time we killed him with ease (really, it was easy).

Then Kel’Thuzad. This guy is a pain. We had to swap our awesome DK, Ashaba with his druid, Feldegast, in order to clear up the melee area and get some backup heals for ice-blocks. Melee frost blasts were chaining four or so people into ice blocks and there’s just no way our healers could have covered it. We wiped a few times and put in two *really* solid hours. 19 minutes before we were scheduled to call it, we gave it one last try and ended up pulling off a win. Clicky for bigger screen cap.

Yesterday after Obsidy and Archavon we went into Naxx. When we got inside, WoW started going very slow and being laggy. My computer ended up crashing hard, during which something called WMI corrupted which made my wireless stuff stop working. I ended up running a cable across the house to finish the raid, but it was irritating none-the-less. Today after trying to repair the issue, Windows complained and I resolved to just format and reinstall.

I hate Windows, but I love TinyXP. These are some screens of a fresh install, taken right after booting up the first time. Formatting my OS drive took 18 minutes (none of that quick format business for me, thank you) and the actual OS install took less than 6 (yes, six). This is with TinyXP Rev09 (Option 8):

Note, 15 processes. 50mb of ram being used.

Screw you OEM crap! Screw you internationalization junk! IE, Windows Media Player - you’re outta there! I’ve been using TinyXP for a while and re-installing Windows has become a cinch. I get the base functionality and can put all my own things over the shell. It’s lovely. Also, thank you Blizzard for making WoW so portable - since all my crap is installed and residing on another drive, reinstalling the OS doesn’t mean reinstalling WoW. Yippee! Once my audio driver is installed, I’ll be back in the game.