Here’s a quick tip for those of you who regularly interact with people in other timezones. If you want to get a quick glance at one or two timezones other than the one you’re in then you can add this fairly easily to the “Date and Time” section in Windows. Just click on the time …
Category: Windows 7
Apr 06 2011
Adjust the Maximum Size of the Recycle Bin in Windows
- By Boydo in Flash, Hard Drive, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Leading on from yesterday’s blog entry regarding the practice of emptying the Recycle Bin (or Trash in Mac OS X) I thought it was worth covering how to set the maximum size of the Recycle Bin in Windows to prevent it from growing too large. This is of particular importance on smaller drives in netbooks or more …
Apr 05 2011
Reclaim Space by Emptying the Recycling Bin or Trash
- By Boydo in Flash, Hard Drive, MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s a quick tip. While some of us may think this is a very obvious tip others may not have any idea about the concept of the Recycle Bin (or simply “Trash” in Mac OS X) and the fact that stuff that’s in there still chews up hard drive space. Sure, these days with drive …
Apr 01 2011
Calibrate Your Screen with the Display Colour Configuration Wizard
- By Boydo in Display, Imaging, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows 7
Here’s a quick tip for this evening. A lesser known feature of Windows 7 is an included wizard that will help you adjust the settings on your screen to obtain the most accurate colour reproduction possible. Not all screens are made identically and there are differences between display technologies which means that images can look …
Mar 30 2011
Diagnose Dataflow Problems: Potential Issues on the Local Computer
- By Boydo in Browsers, Connectivity, Ethernet, Fixed, Hard Drive, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Wi-Fi, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Wireless
Leading on from the last couple of posts outlining how to do a ping test and a traceroute to attempt to troubleshoot dataflow issues there are also some other things to look out for as common offenders on your own computer. These may or may not apply in all situations nor is this an exhaustive …
Mar 29 2011
Diagnose Dataflow Problems: The Traceroute
- By Boydo in Communications, Connectivity, Email, Gaming, Microsoft, Skype, Technology, VoIP, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Leading on from yesterday’s post about how to do a ping test we move on to another test which might uncover more information about where dataflow problems may be occurring. In a nutshell, a traceroute shows you all of the various entities (also known as “hops”) on the Internet that sit between you and a …
Mar 27 2011
Use the Character Map to Find Unusual & Lesser Used Symbols
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Sometimes we need to get a hold of certain symbols like the copyright symbol (i.e. ©) when we don’t know the keyboard shortcut (Alt + 0169) or we want to preview a whole stack of characters at the same time for unusual fonts like Wingdings and Webdings. Sure, for …
Mar 26 2011
Windows 8: Potential System Reset Functionality
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows 7
Windows 8 might be a little while away (perhaps with a release some time next year) but one thing that caught my eye browsing the web today was the potential new feature being the concept of the “system reset”. Granted, this was shown off in a leaked image but it’s interesting to see what might …
Mar 06 2011
Microsoft Wants to Say Goodbye to Internet Explorer 6
- By Boydo in Browsers, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows XP
It might be hard to believe but Internet Explorer 6 is still alive and kicking ten years after it was released. Whilst IE has come a long way in terms of speed and standards compliance particularly in IE9 previous version left a lot to be desired. Needless to say, hanging on to decrepit software and forcing websites …
Mar 05 2011
Quickly Swap Screen Configurations Under Windows 7
If you chop and change between external screens and data projectors you might be frustrated with having to go into the display properties in Windows and setting up the new device as a secondary screen and working some magic to get it all working. Generally, laptops have the ability to swap between several display outputs …
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