Since this is the week Windows 7 is getting released and I’m hosting a Windows 7 Party, I thought it would be great to share some of my favorite new features in Windows 7 with my readers.
Windows Update in Windows 7. Do you remember XP Windows Update? You always had to go through Internet Explorer [...]
Back in the old days, when Windows 98 and Windows 2000 were the major Windows systems, when you ran the built in defragging program, it would show you a nice graphic representation and bring the promise of speeding up the operating system.
While, in Windows Vista and in Windows 7, you don’t get those fancy graphics. [...]
When Windows Vista was introduced to the market a little less than two and a half years ago, new sound control features were added. They went generally unnoticed by the masses while ussually staring people right in their face. Have you changed the volume on Windows? You normally go to the system tray and click on [...]
I first tried Safari 4 on a Windows XP machine and while the Safari-part looked great (with its new Speed Dailesque start page) the top-bar (where the tabs sit) looked horrible.
The Safari 4 tabs on Windows XP in my opinion are the worst design elements of any Apple product I’ve ever seen. Let me describe [...]
I’ve been wondering about the price of Windows. I’ve seen a couple of blogs that think the signs point to a release somewhere between August and December. I think that’s a good guess because if Microsoft misses Back-To-School and Christmas again, they’ll end up in a hole they can’t get out of.
Anyway, so the price [...]
I’ve wanted to be able to open Command Prompt from any folder and already have the directory set accordingly automatically. I finally got fed up with having to type the entire path of my folders so I went to find a way to get Command Prompt (CMD) from the Context Menu (CXM) of a file.
A [...]
If you want to setup the Java SDK on your computer, you’ll have to have the environment variable for the location of the SDK set in Windows. The variable is commonly called the classpath.
Here are the instructions to setup your classpath for your brand new Java SDK for both Windows XP and Vista.
Windows XP Instructions
Windows [...]
My computer class uses Macs and thus I’ve become accustomed to their productivity features, like program switch, the dock, spotlight app-launch and my favorite, exposé.
You can only do one of these things in windows naturally (without using any programs) and that is simply program switching. To do it windows, although it may not look as [...]
Today, Microsoft put up a blog post on their Windows Vista Team Blog, Introducing Windows 7. The official codename of Windows 7 is: Windows 7. I bet you didn’t see that coming.
Anyway, if you look at the comments on that page, you’ll see some critisiem about the numbering of Windows. Honestly, I don’t think it’s [...]
I was going to install Adobe Dreamweaver for a friend, however, he’s so lucky to have Vista. The problem is that Vista has issues. You can get an error when you try to install.
Internal Error 2739. Contact Customer Support.
It’s not very helpful, but it is good for a Google Search! Actually, it’s pretty easy to [...]