Part I introduced you to the idea behind changing your Windows 7 Local Group Policies to make changes to suit your use of Windows, whatever that may be. The Local Group Policy Editor (LGPE) is a powerful tool, but also a potentially dangerous one if not used carefully. Yes, you have read that before; be [...]
Leave a Comment December 23, 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
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
If you have ever complained about the standard Windows operating system applets and certain features – they were too cumbersome or just did not work well – this is for you. It would not be too much of a generalization to say that this has certainly been encountered by every system administrator working with Windows [...]
Leave a Comment October 26, 2009
One of the most important aspects of a Windows operating system is the now-famous, and often-used, Taskbar. It sits at the bottom (usually) of the Desktop and is where you go to launch applications, go to Control Panel, set up new Printers, and just about everything else you do in Windows starts there. You use [...]
Leave a Comment October 24, 2009
Microsoft and the European Union, especially its branch for protection of companies and customers from monopolistic behavior of individual corporations, have a long history of conflict. Most of the arguments that have gone before the court have been concerning the automatic installation of the Internet Explorer with the OS, which resulted in huge advantage over [...]
Leave a Comment September 9, 2009
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