Posted by Brian Cui on December 30, 2010 at 2:49 pm
New in Windows 7 are Sticky Notes – a simple way to keep reminders and notes right on your desktop. As soon as you launch Sticky Notes, you’re given the abilities to enter text in a sticky note, create a new sticky note, change the color of a sticky note, resize a sticky note, and delete a sticky note. It turns out however that the sticky notes indeed support some formatting features, such as bold or italicized text. Here’s a list of how to format text in sticky notes to your liking.
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Posted by Brian Cui on November 15, 2010 at 5:55 pm
A lot of the Windows accessories have been given the new Ribbon interface in Windows 7. Some people like it and find it more organized, but some people think it’s a waste of screen space. Screen space is pretty valuable for laptop and netbook owners alike. That problem has been compensated for, however – all programs (including Office 2007 and 2010) which feature a Ribbon interface have the ability to minimize the Ribbon, and have it appear only when one of the tabs is clicked on.
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Posted by Brian Cui on September 24, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Here’s a neat trick to boot into Windows faster. By default, when booting up into Windows, it will only use one core. For hyperthreaded / multi-core computers, you can enable more cores to be put in use for a faster boot time. Here’s how to do this simple trick.
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Posted by Brian Cui on August 14, 2010 at 10:54 am
When it comes to viewing your system’s technical specifications, Windows doesn’t exactly seem to provide a way to view them. Viewing system properties only brings up simple details about your system. However, there is indeed a very simple tool that Windows has built-in, called the DirectX Diagnostic Tool. Although it may seem like a utility that is meant for advanced users, it’s a great reference for those who want to check their system specifications.
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Posted by Brian Cui on August 10, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Windows 7 is a very solid OS – I’ve never encountered any big crashes or errors I had to dig around to fix. However, no OS is perfect, and in the case that Windows 7 does crash and mess up system files, you might be stuck in quite a jam. However, Windows 7 has a lot of tools to help recover Windows – one of them being a Windows 7 Repair Disc.
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Posted by Brian Cui on August 4, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Sometimes when you plug a device into your computer, you see the “Driver installed” tooltip, but you get no autoplay window and it doesn’t seem to exist in the My Computer window. It happens due to the fact that Windows seems to have encountered an issue when assigning it a drive letter. This tends to happen when things like card readers are plugged in, but don’t have cards to read. Then, the card reader itself has no memory, but it still considered a drive, so in some cases, Windows won’t know what to do with your newly plugged in drive. There’s a very simple fix to this, and it’s a matter of manually selecting a drive letter – the process only takes a few clicks.
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