Here’s a quick tip for this evening. From time to time, we need to open an application as an administrator instead of the limited user rights that we have by default in Windows Vista and Windows 7. However, this can be a pain as you need to locate the program you want to run (either …
Category: Windows Vista
Feb 19 2011
Automatically Reinstall Common Applications After a Format with Ninite
- By Boydo in Browsers, Hard Drive, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
If you have been following the blog you might be aware that I undertook a clean install of Windows 7 on a laptop. Of course, there’s a process to go through in order to backup existing data, reinstall Windows and then copy back the required data from the backup. However, some of that data is …
Feb 18 2011
No Pen and Paper? Use Notepad!
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s another quick tip. In many cases when I make or receive a phone call I am in front of a computer but also, for the life of me, I never seem to have a pen. One trick I have used for many years is to use the good old Windows Notepad application to jot …
Feb 17 2011
Mount Your ISOs Quickly with MagicDisc
- By Boydo in BD-ROM, Blu-ray, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Optical, Storage, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
If you download a lot of software (legally, mind you) sometimes they will come in the form of an ISO file which is basically an image of an optical disc (be it a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc). Normally, these files had to be burnt to a physical disc before you could actually start installing …
Feb 16 2011
Capture a Disk Image Quickly with DriveImage XML
From time to time I help people undertake the often laborious task of doing a clean installation of Windows on a computer. The installation itself is fairly painless but there are other tasks involved that can take up a considerable amount of time, including: backing up the existing data (although I recommend people have regular …
Feb 12 2011
Did You Know About Triple Clicking?
Another quick tip for the night. It would be fair to say that most people know about the concept of the single click normally used for selecting objects on the screen, dragging objects to other places or clicking hyperlinks. Similarly, people know about double clicking to open applications or documents (although I find it annoying …
Feb 06 2011
Make the Time and Date Visible on Your Windows Taskbar
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s a quick tip for those of you who may rummage around and/or curse when you need to find the date quickly and have a terrible time trying to remember. For users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, all you need to do is the following: Right click on the taskbar, If there …
Feb 04 2011
Why You Shouldn’t Install Third Party Codecs on Windows 7
- By Boydo in Apple, CPU, Display, GPU, Imaging, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Processors, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Another quick update for this evening. What many people may not know but Windows 7 actually supports a wider range of codecs (i.e. COmpression / DECompression software) compared to Windows XP and Vista, specifically: H.264 (popular for Apple devices and web streaming), AAC (a popular audio format also preferred by Apple), DivX, Xvid. As a …
- AAC, codec, CPU, DivX, GPU, H.264, K-Lite, Microsoft, sound card, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Xvid
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Jan 31 2011
Visually Track Hard Drive Space with WinDirStat
- By Boydo in Flash, Hard Drive, Linux, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Phone 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s a quick tip for this evening. If there is one thing that Windows has lacked all of these years it is a way to quickly assess from a macro level which folders are taking up the most space without having to take a “divide and conquer” approach by right clicking each folder, going to …
Jan 26 2011
The 2TB Barrier – What Does it Mean for You?
- By Boydo in Apple, Hard Drive, Macintosh, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Vista
Throughout last year I made a couple of mentions of the 2TB (two terabyte) barrier for physical storage in modern computers but didn’t take the opportunity to flesh out exactly what it means for the regular consumer out there. In this article I am going to explain why this is important and what you need …
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