Windows 7 – Just keeps getting dumber
Well, I played around with the Windows 7 beta a while back, but not too much. Recently the Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 came out, so I decided to pop it in and see what is new, and what I’ve found is...
View ArticleWindows 7 Home: Your very own crippled OS!
With Windows 7 RTM hitting official Microsoft channels, I figured I’d load up the final version of Windows 7 and check it out. I’ve commented in the past about being completely unimpressed with 7 and...
View ArticleVista and 7: Easily Disable Ease of Access
Ease of Access on the login screen was always something I disabled on my Vista machines… and of course Windows 7 hasn’t added any built-in option to disable this useless and annoying feature, so I’m...
View ArticleWhy is Windows 7 Media Player So Ugly?
I’ve been using Windows 7 for a few weeks now, and it’s alright I guess. It would’ve more appropriately been named Windows Vista SE (Second Edition) though. It does not feel like a new OS. It feels...
View ArticleWindows 7 Crippling, On The Big Screen
A few weeks ago I wrote about how Microsoft was artificially crippling “lesser” versions of Windows. Blocking you from running software you have a right to use, simply because you didn’t buy their...
View ArticleMake Firefox More Secure, Disable Java
No, not Javascript. Java. Despite similar names, Javascript and Java are 2 entirely different things. Java, or Java applets are programs that can be embedded in to websites. They are generally poorly...
View ArticleWindows 7 Annoyance: File Properties
For the most part Windows 7 is great. There are a few – things – about it that annoy me, and I have found another. This “feature” has popped up a couple times and is very frustrating when it does....
View ArticleWindows 7 SP1 is out, time to get back some HD space
Well, it’s that time of the season again where Microsoft pushes out a new service pack. This time it is Service Pack 1 for Windows 7. I have actually been running SP1 for a few weeks now (yay for...
View ArticleFix 7′s Taskbar Right Clicking
Something that has bugged me for a long time in Windows 7 is how the taskbar right-click functionality was changed. Since Windows 95, when you right clicked on an item in the taskbar, you were...
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