Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7’

Windows 7/2008 R2 USB Installation Tool

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Ok, so a while back (during the initial launch of Windows 7) there was a link that Microsoft was hosting for this tool.  After shenanigans were called on the inclusion of open source code the link went away.  Now the code is back on Codeplex for your downloading pleasure.

http://bit.ly/8FRFLy

That is all for now, Cheers

Windows 7 Tips – The Bumper List from Tim Sneath

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

startI came across this blog posting a couple of days ago and I have to say that it is one of the best write-ups on Windows 7 features.  Tim’s post includes a number of hidden features and shows off some of the under the hood enhancements.

A few of the tips (and developments) that I really appreciate are the updates to the taskbar in side-mounted position, the ability to choose various presentation modes (via Win+P) and the ADD helper-like Win+Home combination that will minimize everything besides your active window.

Be sure to read through this one if you are currently running Windows 7.

Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets.

Windows 7 Beta update available for MP3 bug

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Hey all you Windows 7 Beta testers out there.

Microsoft has released an update for the Media Center bug in Beta 1 (Build 7000).  The bug has a nasty tendency to eat the beginning of some mp3 files if they also contained meta-data.

If your Windows installation has already chewed up some of your files MS notes that you may be able to recover them with the “Previous Version” backup that may be automatically stored (a system restore point and drive protection will have to be on).

Here is the link to the MS download page

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/961367