My colleague forwarded an email from a Microsoft employee to me. It’s about Windows 7 RC news. It is confirmed that Windows 7 RC will be released in just a few weeks. It can be downloaded from Windows.com, TechNet and MSDN when it’s available. The downloads will be available atContinue Reading
There are some useful printing administration scripts since XP. When I tried to use them on Windows 7 Beta, I couldn’t run them. They are not in the system path. I found them in %SystemRoot%\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US where %SystemRoot% is usually C:\Windows . To use these scripts, you can set your pathContinue Reading
Recently the plug and play stops working on my MacBook under Windows 7 Beta several times. I had to restart the machine just to get it to work again. It is very annoying if you are in the middle of something and you have several applications running. I first triedContinue Reading
PCMark05 is my favorite benchmark program for PC performance. I never had a problem running it. I tried to run it on my newly built Core i7 machine under XP, it hangs at splash screen. I had to use task manager to kill the process. I thought it doesn’t likeContinue Reading
When I tested creating an ad hoc network on Windows 7, I could not figure out how to enable encryption. I tried a different combinations of passwords in ASCII or Hex formats and they did not work. It was not until I tried to create an ad hoc network onContinue Reading
There are not a lot of native drivers for Windows 7 Beta now. Even though you can use the Vista drivers for most of the components. Sometimes, you might need to use the compatibility mode to install those old drivers or application. To use the compatibility mode, follow these steps.Continue Reading
Quite a few readers have reported problems booting to Windows XP after they install Windows 7 Beta. I was curious about how to fix the problem. I took a Dell Dimension which I just rebuilt with Windows XP. I wanted to install Windows 7 and make this a dual bootContinue Reading
Under Windows, you press Print Screen key to capture the full screen or alt + Print Screen to capture the active window. However, there is no Print Screen key on a MacBook. How can you capture the screenshots when you boot the machine to Windows OS? One solution I foundContinue Reading
A new feature of Windows 7 lets you search remote sites directly from Windows Explorer. To use it, just download the search connector files (*.osdx) to your computer. Double click on the search connector file to install it. Once it’s installed, a new link is created under Favorites. Here isContinue Reading
[Update 5/5/2009] The new location for ATI Catalyst Driver for Windows 7 is here. I did some benchmark testing comparing 3D performance under XP and Windows 7. I was quite dissapointed at how poorly the 3D performs under Windows 7. I set out to find some other drivers and IContinue Reading
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