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I’m sure there are many of you out there who just love to customize Windows 7. Some of you have probably already customized your logon screen, but for those of you who haven’t, I’ve put together a little guide just for you! First off, if you want to change the Windows 7 Wallpaper you’ll need [...]
Microsoft is serious about its position in the mobile market. It is not just the mobile phone, or the OS, but it is about Apps, and Microsoft is lagging far behind. But it aims to catchup by releasing a developer tool to help developers migrate their iPhone Apps over to Windows Phone 7. Microsoft officials [...]
What this guide is, is a quicker and easier way to restart the explorer.exe process without having to either restart your computer or follow the method I outlined here a while back. There are a couple of reason as to why you would want to restart the explorer.exe process. For me it was because my [...]
Every now and then you want to capture the contents on your screen to past them into a text editor, or to manipulate them with Paint or some such program. Here are 3 screen capture programs that will give you more options than the standard Alt-print screen option provides. DuckCapture Go from 1 to 4. [...]
Jack Wallen explains how to create a desktop icon to start the Windows 7 Task Manager automatically displaying processes for All Users.
In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how the Windows 7's Problem Steps Recorder works and how it can help you troubleshoot.
The push for selling Microsoft products continues. Now Microsoft is making plans to open two new retail stores, one in Houston Texas, and one in Los Angeles California. Current Stores Microsoft operates 8 stores located in different parts of the US. They are in Scottsdale, Ariz., Mission Viejo, Calif., Lone Tree, Colo., San Diego, Calif., [...]
With a simple registry tweak, you can get the Open Command Window Here feature to appear for a folder in Windows Explorer using just a right-click.
Well its been some time now that the Windows Phone 7 was released, October 2011. While Microsoft has been in awe with this new mobile device, that is not the case with consumers. And unfortunately for Microsoft, developers are not too interested in developing Apps either. If you take a look at the graph you’ll [...]
Some Microsoft engineer was definitely having some fun with this one: Last week, Microsoft quietly a released a desktop gadget to remind customers and businesses of one important fact: Windows XP falls out of support in 2014, and would you please consider purchasing an updated OS? Getting it is pretty simple: after validating your copy [...]
Everyone who surfs the web is a potential victim to malware, hacking, network or PC intrusion. Users normally enable the standard protection schemes like firewalls, NAT, intrusion detection software and the like. Many times these protection attempts will do, but only if the hackers don’t want to bother with you. However, you can take other [...]
Mark Kaelin took a stand and declared that the time to dump Windows XP has come. Check out the poll results to see how many of your peers agreed with him.
Chat software…it’s necessary and important. But there are many options for you to use, not just Microsoft’s. Here are some programs that can provide the same features and even more. LANcet Chat This is a freeware peer to peer program. You can use this for real-time message exchange over a local network (LAN). Here’s what’s special; you [...]
As Amazon’s Cloud problems became widely known, one important piece of information came out. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. A cliche for sure, but the Cloud is where major IT companies have been sporting their marketing. It’s the next thing after the Internet, it’s mature, it’s steady, it will help you make [...]
There have been very few technologies that have captured the public’s imaginations and become as commercially successful as Microsoft’s Kinect sensor. The device, which is the product of research undertaken in Israel, the US and the UK, is the fastest-selling electronics product in history. What’s more we’re only just beginning to see what this device [...]
By the way when you think of the Cloud and the Internet they start the same way, with ISP's and interconnectedness. However, the difference is that in the Cloud, data centers form the repositories of the information, and will be the destination of the operation. The Internet has no such formal destination. Traffic can go anywhere. In the cloud the traffic will go to one destination of choice.
Using only a simple desktop shortcut, you can add Flip3D functionality to the Windows 7 Taskbar. Mark Kaelin shows you how to make it happen.
A torrent program allows users to download files, music, videos, from a group of fellow users. The user finds a torrent download site, and searches for a file, software or the like and if found, then the torrent for that program is downloaded. However, to download the program, the torrent software must be enabled and [...]
Those of you who follow me here or on Twitter will know that I was invited for meetings this week at Microsoft UK’s campus in Reading (Berkshire). I thought I’d write this visit up for you and split it into two articles across Windows7News and our sister site gHacks. You can read part 1 of this article there. [...]
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Here are some Web and Browser Tools that can make working on Internet programs easier. Well start with a spell checker, an internet shopping program, and a browsing profile backup program. Speckie Speckie is a real-time multilanguage spell checker for Internet Explorer that will automatically check for spelling errors as you type into online forms, [...]
In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to create and use a Password Reset Disk in Windows 7 using a USB Flash Drive rather than a CD or floppy disk.
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MP3 players allow users to play music. It is a means of compressing a sound sequence into a very small file, used as a way of downloading audio files from the Internet. It was developed in the 1980′s and brought to the Internet in 1997. The developers were Fraunhoffer-Gessellshaft and Thompson Multimedia. MP3 was developed to [...]
It has been rumored that Microsoft is moving to their Metro UI design for their Office products and now it looks like we have some visual proof of such a move. 
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Today’s computers have access to numerous pictures, videos, and graphics. Keeping track of them can be a chore, so here are some Graphics Management Tools that will help you manage your pictures. FotoBounce Fotobounce is a FREE photo organizer that utilizes advanced face recognition technology to speed up the tagging and organizing of your photos. [...]
As a new Windows MVP I’ll be having my first meetings next week with Microsoft at their UK head office in Reading. It’s going to be very interesting as it’s my first official visit to the company and, more importantly, a meeting that’s been requested by them rather than me. I’ll be meeting with the [...]
Take the TechRepublic Windows Blog poll of the week and compare answers with your peers: Do you still use or even have an active screen saver?
As Web Supporting applications go, the most well known is Adobe Flash. But Microsoft also has a web supporting application in the name of Silverlight. This web application framework provides functionalities similar to those in Adobe Flash. It integrates multimedia, graphics, animations, and interactivity into a single runtime environment. Silverlight Beta version 5 Microsoft made the [...]
In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to use Svchost Viewer to track down detailed information about any Svchost.exe process running in Windows 7.
Here are some Automation tools that you should look at. They are free and can help you different ways. Data Visualization It is an easy way to create reports from any data. You can easily create report layouts and import data from almost any data base system like Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, MS SQL Server, [...]
Jack Wallen shows you how to shrink the maximum size allowed for System Restore so that you can get back space on a hard drive when space is at a premium.
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the Kitchen, Microsoft has announced that it is working on Internet Explorer 10. Not content with the release of IE9 just one month ago, Microsoft has plans to release an update on the new browser every 12 weeks. It so happened that at the [...]
Sometimes the Windows 7 Start menu does not do the kinds of things that you want it to do. So here are some programs that will help you modify your tray menu system, and make it do more of what you want. SE-TrayMenu Use SE-TrayMenu to gain quick access to most frequently used applications and [...]
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You find me at a crossroads because interesting times are upon us, as I find myself seriously considering, for the very first time, jumping ship from Windows. Nope, you don’t have to check the calendar, it’s not April 1st again and I’ve not been on the strong sauce. I genuinely mean it! What’s more I’m [...]
In certain situations you will want to convey information to users before they log on to a system. Here is how you create that message.
Microsoft is busy. It’s Office Suite software is up for some updates and it plans to deliver the first service packs for Office 2010 and for SharePoint 2010 sometime this summer. Moreover, they also plan to deliver service pack 1 for the Mac version of Office 2011 the week of April 11. Date Updates The service pack delivery dates [...]
The Commodore 64 was widely regarded as one of the first actual personal computers that people could buy and use. Primarily it was known as the first gaming pc with titles such as “California Games” getting it a massive base of users. The Commodore 64 roamed this earth long before I did, but I’m sure [...]
Some great videos have been put online parodying Microsoft’s “Windows 7 was my idea” adverts from last year. The videos feature a Stormtrooper, Darth Vader and Chewbacca. The videos are very professionally made with excellent costumes and a very effective green-screen process. When Microsoft launched Windows 7 they wanted to make it known that they had [...]
We’ve been wondering when this day will finally come for a while. It didn’t take Windows 7 too long to overtake Windows Vista in terms of market share, but we all agreed that the biggest test for Windows 7 would be to see if it could take down the mighty Windows XP. And it would [...]
With all of the Photos and Themes that you can have on a PC today, there are some tools that can help you manage and manipulate those photos. Here are some Graphics Editors for you to look at. PhotoBatch You can use PhotoBatch for batch image processing, or file format conversion and renaming of image [...]
Managing your desktop can be an adventure that you may prefer to avoid in part because no matter what you do, your desktop will go back to the same condition that it was in…messy. But some of the Desktop Managers here can help you avoid that problem. SideSlide SideSlide is an advanced, portable, and unobtrusive, [...]
With a simple tweak to the Windows Registry, you can make choosing an application to run an unknown file type much more efficient and a little less annoying.
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or through other social networks may know that for the last month I’ve been testing NetGear’s new, top of the range NeoTV550 HD Media Player. This box is a small, and I really do mean small, do it all box for the connected home. It will sit [...]
One of the most important and least understood program database on a Windows computer is the registry. It stores information about all programs, users, files, folders, passwords, and anything else on the computer on a cryptic and hard to read database. When you add a program to the computer, the registry is modified. When you [...]
In the last week we’ve had a few juicy leaks about forthcoming Windows 8 features such as the inclusion of the Ribbon interface into Explorer. We’ve seen new screenshots that offer tantalising views of new features, and we now could also see a fair few lawsuits being prepared by third-party companies. Why do I say this? The [...]
The API is part of the operating system and can safely move almost any file on the disk, without risk and while the computer is in full use.
In this edition of the Windows Desktop report, Greg Shultz introduces you to WindowTabs and shows you how to configure the application to add a tabbed interface to Windows Explorer.
There have been a large amount of leaks in the last couple of weeks of screenshots from an early build of Windows 8, notable from websites such as winreview.ru. These leaks have shown us features such as the log-in with your Live ID, the ribbon in Explorer and some of the metro interface features that [...]
Microsoft created a “wrapper” over the entire update process making it easier to circumvent the carriers approval and push of the update.
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Microsoft have been keen to push their Ribbon interface over the last few years since it first appeared in Office 2007. The most notable instances being the tight integration with the Live Essentials 2011 Suite of programs. Other instances include the addition of the Ribbon to WordPad and Paint in Windows 7. Now Paul Thurrott and [...]