Windows 7 – Flickr powered Themes
I have been meaning to write this post for a while, as soon as I heard Paul Thurott (@Thurrott on Twitter) discussing themes on the Windows Weekly Podcast with Leo Laporte. Windows 7 calls the Desktop style (Background, Screensaver, Sounds, Colour scheme) themes and these can be wrapped up into themepacks that can be saved [...]
Windows 7 – Windows Media Center and the Xbox 360
Now I have my main base PC setup with Windows 7 I wanted to get the Windows Media Center (WMC) setup, and connected to my XBox 360. So first of all I start up WMC from the Windows 7 computer:- You then the option of an express setup or Custom setup, I like to see [...]
Windows 7 – Dual booting with Vista
As well as my little netbook I always use a machine I built myself that I am pretty happy with, it is an AM2 4200 based machine, 4GB Ram (was 8GB, but I gave the other 4 to my brother and intend to replace them), and a single Nvidia 8800 graphics card, on an ASUS [...]
Windows 7 – Display Brightness Problem
I haven’t posted for a while as I was going to do a post detailing how I installed Mac OSX on my NC10 netbook, but I am going to re-install both Windows 7 and OSX in the near future, this time with the help of a new slimline external DVD-RW, so I will detail what [...]
Contact with the Outlaws!
I have spent a decent amount of time this weekend with the Outlaws setting up the Mother-in-law’s new laptop along with a wireless router for her so she can keep in touch when we leave for Moscow. After a bit of looking around for options I installed windows live essentials for her and setting her [...]
Windows 7 Power Management Issue
I have been using Windows 7 for quite a few weeks now and one thing that I have noticed, my netbook gets very hot. That was one reason why I briefly (for about half an hour) reverted to XP. Anyway, as I use a netbook, I use it on battery power more often than not [...]
Installing Windows 7 on Samsung NC10 Netbook
Firstly I tried making my usb pendrive bootable using a variety of methods to do avail – the machine simply would not boot from it (eventually I realised my mistake, I will discuss this in a later post). So I did a fresh installation from within windows xp – upgrade is only supported for Vista [...]
Why Why Why?
I already have a technical blog elsewhere, I haven’t chosen to import it, I probably won’t continue to update the other one, so why have I done that? The answer is simply that I have at last got some time to blog about everything and anything in tech, and secondly I wanted to broaden what [...]
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