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Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7’
Windows 7 GodMode
In: Uncategorized
4 Jan 2010At 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 [...]
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Windows 7 tips
In: Uncategorized
30 Dec 2009Some 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 [...]
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- Tags: Tips & Tricks, Windows 7
Which Windows 7 is right for you
21 Oct 2009A 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)
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- Tags: Windows, Windows 7
Forefront Client Security and windows 7
14 Oct 2009I 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 [...]
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- Tags: Forefront, Security, Windows 7
Windows 7 Federated Search
11 Sep 2009wow, 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 [...]
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- Tags: Windows, Windows 7
Windows 7 Ads
In: Windows 7
11 Sep 2009Nice Windows 7 advert. LOL
And another one, with the funny kid
This one is also funny.
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Microsoft Windows 7 – 64bit and IE8 new tab hang
In: Windows 7
19 Aug 2009A 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 [...]
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- Tags: Bug, Windows 7
Installed: Windows 7
In: Windows 7
7 Aug 2009After 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 [...]
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Windows 7: RDP Platform Improvements
17 Apr 2009Some 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 [...]
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- Tags: News, Windows, Windows 7