Published in August 29th, 2009
UAC has annoyed many users since it was introduced in Vista. It has definitely been improved in Windows 7, but some of you may want to further modify the settings. Doing this is very easy. Modify UAC settings in Windows 7: Click “Start” Click “Control Panel” Click “User Accounts” Click “Change User Account Control settings” [...]
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Published in August 27th, 2009
If you are a Skype user, then you aren’t going to like this news, because Skype will be doubling its connection fees to landlines and mobiles in many countries. This is a bit of a bummer and not too many Skype users are pleased about this news. I guess this will push more of us [...]
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Published in August 25th, 2009
Nokia, the leaders in the mobile phone industry have made a big announcement with their new Nokia Booklet 3G notebook. This is more like a netbook than a notebook and it has some very nice specs. The Booklet is 10″ and is only 0.79″ in thickness. It weighs under 3lbs, tipping the scale at 2.75lb. [...]
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Published in August 20th, 2009
You should probably know by now how to change your Internet Explorer home page through the browser (tools > internet options > general), but I’d thought I would show you today how to do it through your registry. This may seem a slower option (it is), but the more you become used to using your [...]
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Published in August 18th, 2009
With the release of Windows 7 RTM just around the corner, Microsoft is also getting the related resources ready for release too. One very important aspect of Windows is the drivers, and the Windows 7 driver kit is now available. The updated version of the Windows Driver Kit (v7.0.0) is tailored to the gold version [...]
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Published in August 17th, 2009
Google has recently opened their next generation of search engine for testing. Well you wouldn’t really know it, because it looks exactly like their current search engine. It also seems to behave exactly the same too. By the way, Google is calling this engine “caffeine”. So what are the differences? Well Google isn’t revealing much [...]
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Published in August 11th, 2009
Downloads of Windows 7 RTM have been made available to certain groups. If you are a member of the MSDN Academic Alliance, you were given access to downloads of the Windows 7 RTM from August 8th. If you are part of the MSDN AA, can you let us know? We are interested to hear from [...]
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Published in August 6th, 2009
We have recently started a new Windows 7 articles section on our main site and we recommend that you all take a look. With Windows 7 due to be released in just over 2 months, it is a good time for everyone to start learning about all the great new features and tweaks. We will try and cover [...]
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Published in August 6th, 2009
The Windows 7 RC download has been extremely popular and tons of users now have this installed as their primary operating system or as a virtual operating system in something like VMware. Now the big question is: “Can you upgrade Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 Final”. Well, you can but its not quite as [...]
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Published in August 5th, 2009
If you are having troubles with Windows Live Messenger signing in, or any of the other slew of problems in the latest version, then you might want to try this. There is a registry fix floating around that will fix the signing in problem for most people. But some unlucky users (myself included) can not [...]
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