I was working on a Windows 7 machine and I needed to get all the Microsoft web and SQL Server stuff on it for an upcoming project. I grabbed the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 and started checking boxes. While exploring the options I noticed that it offered to install WordPress (along with quite
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Here’s a slick little utility for Windows 7 that I’ve been using for months. Unfortunately, I just keep forgetting to mention it here! Let’s remedy that.
Taskbar Meters is, in their own words, “Incredibly simple meters that live in the Windows 7 task bar.” And really, that about sums it up. You can run any or
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If you’re running Windows 7 and recently updated Firefox to 3.6, here’s a little tip you might like. While not enabled by default, it turns out that Firefox 3.6 has a nice little Windows integration feature: Thumbnail previews.
Just head to about:config, find the browser.taskbar.previews.enable key and toggle it to true. Now, when you hover over
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I used to love good desktop wallpaper images. However, for years I avoided using images for backgrounds because no matter how cool the image, I would inevitably get tired of it.
Windows 7 has rekindled my use of images with the built-in Desktop background slide show applet. I love this thing! And once I realized
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This post really doesn’t serve a purpose, but maybe someone who has solved this issue will spot it some day and share…
Reloaded my laptop to 64-bit Windows 7 yesterday (which solved nothing) and found that caused a bit of fallout with my VMware apps – both Workstation and Player. It seem that my “unity mode”
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