Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7

At first ,when I read this, I thought “he is kidding, this can’t be”.
If you create a new folder on your desktop and name it  GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}, you will see the following Icon appear:

Upon clicking it you will see shortcut’s to all kind of settings within Windows 7.

This reminds me [...]

Windows 7 tips

In: Uncategorized

30 Dec 2009

Some nice windows 7 tips I found.
Command Prompt output to Clipboard You can directly paste the output of a command prompt command into the clipboard by adding clip to any command. For example: dir | clip

You can then paste it into notepad
Changing the Power [...]

A nice chart summing up al the differences between the Windows 7 versions.

Original source: here (and that one was based on a table from wikipedia)

I just installed a new virtual machine with Windows 7 Enterprise. As I wanted to have some good protection from viruses and malware, I decided to go for Forefront Client Security.
I copied the installation files for FCS to a local temp folder, and executed the command CLIENTSETUP.EXE /NOMOM (to install FCS with [...]

wow, this is nice.
Windows 7 Federated Search. This Federated Search will change the scope of your search beyond your Computer. You can now search for items in remote repositories from your PC. It is based on OpenSearch and the RSS format. Since it is based on [...]

Windows 7 Ads

In: Windows 7

11 Sep 2009

Nice Windows 7 advert. LOL

 

And another one, with the funny kid

 

 
This one is also funny.

A few colleagues of mine had some problems with IE8 in Windows 7. Whenever they CTRL+clicked on a link in IE8, the new tab would hang. I did not have this problem on my machine (as a developer would say: “it works on my machine”). Also when the dragged a link from [...]

After waiting a long time on august 6th, Windows 7 finally arrived. The installation was really easy, and I am surprised with the boot time, but then I always am with a freshly installed OS.
Some “nifty” things I found out:

Command Prompt Here I always had a power toy installed which [...]

Some things in RDP that will be improved in Windows 7:

Aero Experience like translucent effects, previews
Direct 2D & Direct 3d 10.1
True MultiMon Support
RDP Core Performance Improvements
Multimedia: Media Foundation Running Audio and Video smoothly
Multimedia: DirectShow
40% gain in bandwidth reduction

I’ve seen a [...]