I am a bit backup focused at the moment – I wonder why – so here are some useful things to backup: Your windows deskbar shortcuts C:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application Data\Windows Desktop Search\WindowsDesktopShortcuts.ini Your ActiveWords C:\Program Files\ActiveWords\USERS\[your username]
Windows media player really bugs me. I want to be able to start it up with one click and have it play my favorite concentration music play list. But it insists on making this a 3 or 4 click activity which is really distracting when I am working as I...
When I installed Windows Desktop Search 3 I re-discovered the deskbar and the really quick and easy way it provides to create shortcuts to folders, documents, applications and web sites. I really disliked the default hotkey though and still do and I also got annoyed by its limitations, the last...
In XP and W2003 I liked being able to search any explorer by simply clicking [SEARCH] or by pressing F3. The search was very fast, especially when just searching on filename. Along comes Windows Desktop Search 3 for Windows 2003 Server, which is working great BUT the folder search bar...
When I reinstalled FeedDemon following my rebuild I found that there was not context menu to subscribe to a feed. I previously used “send to default feed reader” which must have been added by NewsGator or one of the other products I have been testing. Still easily fixed: This web...
After reading about my rebuild nightmare you are probably thinking that I would be migrating fast to web 2.0 sites. Wrong! I really like some of the web 2.0 sites and work extensively in the browser – but I like to use the best tool for the job and right now I...
On Monday I started to notice that IE and Maxthon were not working correctly following the installation of IE7 on Windows 2003 server (my desktop). IE would just stop opening new web pages completely, Firefox was fine but Maxthon is too integrated into my working practices so I decided IE7...
I have been running Vista RTM on my TC1100 since Sunday and it has been working very well, I had one issue with the Smart Fetch process stopping, but this would have been transparent to me if Vista hadn’t brought it to my attention. A lot of drivers are downloaded...
I have been running Vista Ultimate RTM on my aging Thinkpad T40 and its running reasonably well, although it’s my third machine (After my Desktop and Tablet) so I am not a demanding user. I had to do a bare metal install though as I didn’t have enough disk space...
Last night I tried to upgrade from Office 2007 tech refresh, to Office 2007 RTM and received the following error: Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): The 2007 Microsoft Office system does not support upgrading from a prerelease version of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. You...