Do you have a Windows 7 Media Center HTPC that you are streaming content from to additional Media Center Extender devices (e.g. Xbox 360 somewhere else in the house) and want to find out a way to have the HTPC not turn itself off when you hit the power button if it’s still in-use by [...]
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Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X Centralized Backup Guide
GUEST POST: Occasionally we post stories contributed from readers, and today’s contribution is from reader John Hirt. Thanks John!
My home office setup uses a networked hard drive to save scheduled backups for multiple computers with different operating systems.
The setup uses pretty much standard residential components for home networking and is a combination of pieces accumulated [...]
Windows 7 Window Size/Position Keyboard Shortcuts
I ran across this feature in Windows 7 totally by chance this morning even though we wrote about it a year ago (doh!) and wanted to share.
In Windows 7 you can position and resize windows on your desktop in a few very slick ways. The most well-known ones are clicking on the title-bar and dragging the window [...]
Reminder: Windows 7 RC Expires in 3 Days
Friendly reminder to all the folks out there still running Windows 7 RC from last year – it expires in 3 days (probably more like 2 days by the time you read this).
After the install expires, your computer will start shutting itself down automatically every 2 hours; so you should take this expiration pretty seriously.
For [...]
85% of Windows 7 Machines Regularly Consume 90% of System Ram
Update #1: Big thanks to Chris Hunkele for pointing out this story was complete BS written by an author over at Computer World that got canned afterward. WOOPS!
ComputerWorld is running a story about data collected from 22k Windows 7 machines via the exo.performance.net community that shows 85% of machines that are now running Windows 7 [...]
Disable 'Indexing' in Windows 7 to Speed Up Deletion of Many Files
I’ve been on Windows 7 since the RC was released — that coupled with the fact that I’m a blogger makes me an expert, you should trust me and take my word on everything unconditionally — and while I’ve been overall pretty happy (20 tips and tricks, 8GB performance) there have been a few niggles [...]
Windows 7 – It Just Works… As Long as You Don't Use It
I’ve been using Windows 7 since the RC was announced a few months ago and we’ve had quite a bit to say about it — mostly all good.
Over the last month I’ve noticed a trend in my Windows 7 install (that I use as my primary desktop and work machine) that was feeling all too [...]
Windows 7 Feature: Tells You Which Program Has Locked Your Files
My god it’s the little things with software… it’s always the little things that endear you to software for the long haul or turn you off of it forever.
As mentioned a few times, I’ve been on the Windows 7 RC for a bit over a week now and been pretty much thinking it’s great.
It seems [...]
Windows 7 – 4GB vs 8GB Performance
When I originally installed Windows 7 64-bit, I had 4GB in my machine. While the performance improvements I saw were noticable and appreciated, it was clear that Windows 7 was more than happy to consume all the RAM I could possibly throw at it:
At the urging of Grant Gochanuer (happy owner of 12GB of RAM), [...]
20 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks You Will Love
TIP: You can download Windows 7 RC for free.
Ok, you’ve been hearing the buzz about Windows 7, maybe you read our take on it (or saw the screenshot tour), and you want to give it a try. Let’s say you downloaded it, installed it and are now sitting there wondering “Wait, so what’s so cool [...]
Thoughts on Windows 7 After 3 Days
Introduction
It is no mystery that I’ve been part of the parade yelling “Vista Sucks!” since it’s inception – I’ve even taken the time to review Vista’s shortcomings for everyone willing to read it by only taking a look at changes in one program as an example of the half-assed decisions made throughout the entire OS.
The [...]
Windows 7 on a Lenovo Ideapad S10e Netbook
At the end of January I ordered a nice shiny Lenovo Ideapad S10e from Buy.com. I managed to get a decent price that didn’t hurt the pocketbook, and it was a new toy that I could endlessly experiment with. I started to install a wide variety of operating systems to check for support and to [...]
Screenshot Tour of Windows 7: Libraries, Taskbar, IE8 and the New Paint Application!
Introduction
When the public beta of Windows 7 was announced, we did like everyone else and ran over to the Windows 7 site to download it (ISO Download Links: 32-bit, 64-bit).
After getting it installed and spending some time with it, our overall take away so far are the following things:
Windows 7 is a “finished” Vista. It’s [...]
Windows 7 Beta Released
Microsoft Windows 7’s Beta Customer Preview launched today. Based on the below message posted on the download page it looks like it is pretty popular.
“Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal — we’re in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We’re sorry for the [...]
Windows 7: What We Know So Far
A lot of info has been put released this week about Windows 7. If you’ve not yet seen any info about Windows 7 then I’d recommend checking out Technologizer’s first impressions.
From the info that Microsoft has put out so far it seems like Windows 7 will have a pretty small system footprint allowing it to [...]
Windows 7 Coming Sooner Than We Thought?
InternetNews is reporting that next version of Windows (codenamed Vienna) might be coming as early as June of 2009. This had been in the pipeline before XP was released, but what comes as a surprise is this would be almost a year sooner, cutting into the anticipated life cycle of Vista. The information comes from [...]
Windows 7 Multi-Touch Demo Amazes non-iPhone Users
Ballmer and Gates showed off Windows 7 (the follow-up failure to Vista) which ended up being Vista + Multi-touch technology. Everyone in the crowd that had never seen an iPhone before or heard of the idea of a “touch screen” since the 80s was sufficiently amazed… everyone else just saw Microsoft continuing to draft Apple [...]
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