Windows 7 is designed to simplify the things you do every day, work the way you want, and make some exciting new things possible. Want examples? Here are 10 good reasons for Windows 7.
Category: Windows
Since 1985, Windows has a deep impact on our view of a computer.
Windows 7 is out. What now?
Windows 7 is generally available since yesterday. Never have the expectations for a new operating system been as high as this time, as we as end users have never been integrated into finding ideas for a new Windows, like we have this time. On top of that, Windows Vista has moved to the storage siding and is called a big flop by some people. Surely expectations climb up then – can Windows 7 embrace them?
Windows 7 browser ballot screen accepted by European Union
Microsoft may distribute Windows 7 with the browser ballot screen proposed by the Windows team. The European Commission accepted the offer. From Windows 7 onwards, the user sees a selection dialog to install other browsers than Internet Explorer, when they set up the system. Within the dialog, the 5 most
USB device doesn’t work anymore in XP? Manual driver installation might help.
This evening, C.N., a friend, told me about a problem with USB devices on Windows XP (SP3). Whenever she wanted to connect a device with one of the USB ports, she could not use it—whether it was her mouse, her webcam or her digital camera. She couldn’t even access her
How-to: Minimize Messenger to the system notification area in Windows 7
If you are running Messenger quite frequently, perhaps even permanently, the rather big Messenger icon in the “normal” taskbar might get into your way rather quickly. How would it be to force Messenger to act like in previous versions of Windows—that is, to “minimize to tray”? Here is how you can.
How-to: Convert audio and video to a different format
Somebody sent you a *.wmv video, but you need it in *.mpg format? You bought *.wma music, but your mobile player only supports *.mp3? A friend of mine has created a tool making it easy to transcode audio and video files to different formats. How does the tool work? The
OneCare and Windows 7
Windows 7 will not support the security solution Windows Live OneCare. The reason for this is the End of Life for OneCare, which will get replaced by a free alternative.
Windows Vista SP2 RC now publicly available
Service Pack 2 Release Candidate is now available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. There is a 32-bit standalone installer (388 MB), as well as a 64-bit installer (614 MB). Contained languages are English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish. The additional ISO image contains all versions of Service Pack
How-to: Add Empty Recycle Bin entry in Desktop context menu
If you are one of the lazy ones (hey! I said, “if”), you are probably tired of having to empty the waste bin next to your desk now and then. So, you can at least make it easier to empty your PC recycle bin. This tip shows you how to
Win 7: RC at the end of February
It seems that Microsoft is going to make the first and probably only Release Candidate of Windows 7 available soon to testers. Our sources confirmed that the first RC builds have been compiled. According to information Winfuture.de got from Microsoft-near sources, the so-called “Escrow phase” for RC1 has been started