for the dial-up stone age web surfers: youtube video of a commercial showing a doughy adult male proudly claiming he came up with the windows 7 ability to "snap" two separate windows together
― am0n, Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
There's a freeware program called Gridmove that's been doing that for years. It takes up about 4mb of RAM and it's great, and they should sue the ass off of Microsoft. Sue the doughy guy too.
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/07/28/9850416.aspx#9852298
In the taskbar, click the button for the first window you want to position, then hold the Ctrl key and right-click the button for the second window. Select Tile Vertically. Bingo, the two windows are positioned side by side.
― abanana, Monday, 26 October 2009 20:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Why u guys r hating ,,, u didnt hate apple when they did these ads about microsoft ,, so microsoft had to fight back ... plus 10 yrs ago u guys wouldnt even know what apple is ,,i do not hate apple ,, well i love it .. but i still respect microsoft for everything they did to the computer world ... and i think microsoft entered the history ,,, but apple didnt and will never do coz everything they did it was a copy of something else but with nicer design and featires.
― richard belzer (jeff), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
anyone try this out on vmware fusion on a mac yet? does it run any faster than XP did (XP ran okay)?
― akm, Monday, 26 October 2009 20:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
Microsoft is hitting hard on the advertising theme that Win7 is simpler, leaner and faster. This is intriguing, but is it true?
In my recent experience, it does run much better on older hardware than Vista did. I have a 4-5 year old HP workstation with a 3.2 Pentium 4 and 4GB of ram. Not terrible specs, but Vista choked it to death, and 7 runs just fine.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
Does it run better than XP?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 26 October 2009 21:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Speed-wise, yes. Though it does have trouble with my network connections in a way that XP doesn't.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
I mean, speed-wise, about the same. The machine was "Designed for Windows XP" as the little sticker says, so I can't really do better than XP for sheer performance.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
Please to fix Windows Explorer, thx.
Doesn't refresh, so if you delete a load of files from a folder they still show. Sometimes even after you hit F5 a load of times. Have to click on another folder and then back on the original folder.
"folder not found" error-displaying after I deleted the folder so no shit it's not found
also really annoying - highlight a few files in a folder, click to sort a column e.g. modified date, the files are no longer highlighted. XP used to keep them highlighted if you change the view/sort
Some of the other problems I was having turned out to be "features" I could turn off, so if anyone knows how to stop the above from happening I'd be much obliged.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 17:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
Opening a legitimate text file on a network directory can let someone gain access to your computer. Good job Microsoft. Affects XP on up.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-071#section1
― anorange (abanana), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
good to see everyone stoked for windows 8
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 12:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"
― serve soup without tasting it (snoball), Thursday, 15 September 2011 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Opening a legitimate text file on a network directory can let someone gain access to your computer. Good job Microsoft. Affects XP on up.
It must be fairly rare for someone to access a file from a network directory that a hacker would have access to, unless they'd already compromised the network, I'd think.
― o. nate, Thursday, 15 September 2011 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Amazing new features in Windows 8! Including Task Bar and Reset!
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/374587/30-best-features-of-windows-8
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 May 2012 04:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
It’s possible, for example, to download the ISO of a Linux distribution or another piece of software to the desktop, double-click to “mount” the file, and run the setup executable without having to physically burn the ISO to disc.
o brave new world that has such features in it
― good men like my father, or president truman (difficult listening hour), Monday, 14 May 2012 04:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tapping in passwords on a tablet, even using Microsoft’s excellent soft keyboard, is hardly ideal. Picture passwords are an inventive alternative. Select a photo from your library, make three gestures with your finger on the chosen photo – tapping each of your children in alphabetical order, for example, or swiping across three letters in a picture of fridge magnets – and that becomes your Windows login. Picture passwords can be used with both touchscreens and mouse controls.
Select a photo from your library, make three gestures with your finger on the chosen photo – tapping each of your children in alphabetical order, for example, or swiping across three letters in a picture of fridge magnets – and that becomes your Windows login. Picture passwords can be used with both touchscreens and mouse controls.
this is like a rejected MS Bob feature. "no, that's too insecure, let's just reset the password after 5 failed attempts instead"
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
tapping each of your children in alphabetical order
― good men like my father, or president truman (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Does anyone know any good 3rd part media streaming software for Windows 7? There's a PS3 in the house and I'd love to just stream my movies/tv/music folders, but I don't want to drag everything away from their custom folders into the Windows Libraries stuff. If there's a way to just add folders or shortcuts to WMP, I haven't found it.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
I mean, the most customizable thing about WMP is that I can choose it to sort stuff via genre or stars or other such BS. I want to just say "This folder, D:\My Music, stream the damn thing!"
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
ps3 media server works pretty well
― silverfish, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:11 (11 months ago) Permalink