Creating a Flash Drive Installation
With any Windows install, you usually need a media drive like a DVD-ROM. However, there are many times these days when a PC does not have this drive – especially the compact travel laptops also known as the netbooks out on the market now. If you have a USB DVD-ROM, well [...]
Leave a Comment November 12, 2009
We all have an opinion about Windows Vista – even Mactards have something to say about Vista as they keep saying it over and over on TV and radio – and the most common view is not exactly positive. People purchased PCs and notebooks, and then asked to have Windows XP loaded instead of Vista; [...]
Leave a Comment November 10, 2009
In the first part of this article, we saw several ways which Microsoft’s Windows 7 release may not live up to the hype surrounding it. In the second part, we will see some more areas where it may not be exactly what customers are looking for.
The Windows 7 Starter version is not good for anything [...]
Leave a Comment November 8, 2009
Windows 7, the new operating system (OS) from Microsoft, has a number of new features. Here, we will look at the Jump List feature which is new to the Windows 7 OS. This feature is very useful for performing common tasks with a specific application quickly and easily. All that needs to be done is [...]
Leave a Comment November 6, 2009
Problem reports where making the rounds shortly after the final release of the Windows 7 operating system. It is not unusual that some users report problems when installing a new operating system or upgrading their old OS to a new one. Windows 7 in this regard did not get a lot of bad press except [...]
Leave a Comment November 6, 2009
No, you can’t. You can only upgrade to Windows 7 by overwritting an existing Windows partition as Microsoft treats dual boot separately. Unless you have two licenses on your computer, you will need to buy the full copy of Windows 7. That’s the case where you want to keep the old operating system and install [...]
Leave a Comment November 5, 2009
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it is notifying approximately 800 workers that their jobs are being eliminated as the software giant completes the layoffs it announced earlier this year.
In January, Microsoft said it would cut approximately 5,000 positions before the end of the next fiscal year, which ends in June. With the latest cuts, Microsoft [...]
Leave a Comment November 5, 2009
Mozilla may have released the first beta of Firefox 3.6 nearly two months late, but the organization believes the final version still will arrive on schedule before the end of the year.
The Mozilla wiki page on version 3.6, code-named Namoroka, listed early September for the scheduled release of the first beta, but it actually arrived [...]
Leave a Comment November 5, 2009
Ever since I started using a computers, I’ve been using the “Prt Sc” button to take images of my desktop, and it has never cross my mind to use other software to do the job until Microsoft introduce the new snipping tool software that come free with Windows 7. Actually, I heard the same software [...]
Leave a Comment November 4, 2009
Three new features are now available to Windows 7 users of the new beta release of Firefox. Firefox 3.6 beta 1 introduces enhanced previews for both the new Win7 taskbar and the tabs.
The taskbar previews for tabs brings Firefox into parity with Internet Explorer 8, allowing users to see and select their open tabs via [...]
Leave a Comment November 3, 2009
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