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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...

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Windows 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...

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Vista 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...

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Why 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...

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Windows 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...

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Make 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...

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Windows 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....

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Windows 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...

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Fix 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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