Copy as Path in Windows 7, Vista and XP
On 2011/12/21
Copy as Path lets you place a file name along with its path information into the Windows 7 clipboard. I only learned about this great Windows 7 feature in November from my friend Ed Bott’s article Ten Tricks every Windows 7 power user should know. I didn’t know that Microsoft [...]
The simple answer is that Windows 7 just works.
You may have noticed that in the past six months the only post I wrote specifically about Microsoft Windows or a Windows-specific application was Windows 8 – Why do they call it Windows? I still use Windows 7 on a daily basis. Contrary to [...]
Windows 8 – Why do they call it Windows?
On 2011/09/16
Microsoft released the Windows 8 Developer Preview download shortly after they started their 2011 Build Conference in Anaheim, CA. I downloaded and installed it to see what’s cooking.
Windows 8 is a radical departure from earlier versions of Windows. The user interface (UI) has been reimagined as a touchscreen UI. It is [...]
Whither the Personal Computer?
On 2011/08/24
August 2011 has been a big news month in the tech world. First Google announces it is acquiring Motorola and now Hewlett Packard (HP) announces it is disposing of its PC business and shutting down its TouchPad tablet business, too. These two corporate moves have significant implications for large technology companies like Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo, [...]
Why I am abandoning Windows and you will too
On 2011/03/16
Microsoft recently released the final version of Window 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Thus far, my experience in updating 8 machines is: 2 succeeded, 5 failed, and one “succeeded” by force. This last one is my main Windows machine. It failed to install SP1 using Windows Update. SP1 installed when I used the [...]
Legal file names
On 2011/03/07
A friend recently asked,
Since when is it possible to use $ and ! characters in file names?
I just noticed an exclamation point in the name of a file I had ripped from a CD a few weeks age. I don’t recall seeing it there before…
I hadn’t thought about this topic for many [...]
Simple way to wipe Windows user data
On 2011/02/23
People often ask me how to wipe their old computer that they want to give away.
An easy way to do this is to:
Open Control Panel Go to User Accounts Create a new administrative user account. Log out of your existing account. Log into the new account you created in step 3, above. Go [...]
It must take years of advanced linguistic training to become a Microsoft software engineer. During the training, one learns how to communicate with machines and other software engineers. Sometime late in the process it appears you lose the ability to communicate with anyone else.
A marvelous example of this effect appears in [...]
Files, you think you know but what are they really?
On 2010/08/16
Pictures, music, video, spreadsheets, documents and applications are files on your computer. Do you ever wonder what they are and how they differ from each other? What makes a document open in Microsoft Word and a song open in iTunes? Why do files designed to run on Windows PCs like Word documents or Excel spreadsheets [...]
Create a desktop shortcut to open your CD-DVD drive
On 2010/06/18
Macs have an eject key on the keyboard to eject discs from their optical drives. Most Windows machines do not.
I describe below how to create a desktop shortcut to do that for Windows computers. The shortcut can be assigned to a keyboard key, pinned to the Windows 7 Taskbar or added to [...]
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