Archive for August, 2010
This article explains how to remove the stupid Homegroup item from Explorer in Windows 7, and how to hide the Libraries group from Explorer too. Read the rest of this entry »
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If you have a bootable Windows 7 installation DVD or a bootable recovery disc you can rip an ISO image of it to your hard disk, install the image on a USB 4GB pen (flash) drive and boot from it, all in two easy steps. If you already have a bootable ISO image you can skip the whole of Step 1 and go straight to the easiest and last step, Step 2.
The beauty of the method described here lies in the fact that once your USB pen drive has been made bootable, you can create a directory and store any special drivers or standalone applications you might need, which means you don’t need driver disks either. When the flash drive boots and the Windows Recovery Environment is loaded you can install things like OEM drivers directly off the flash drive. Read the rest of this entry »
Scenario 1: You’re buying a new machine and you’ve spent the best part of a week or two investigating the absolute best bang you can get for your buck; your browser favourites list is full of references to benchmarking articles, reviews, and both performance and price comparisons. Finally you decide that you can buy an entire Black Edition 6 core AMD Phenom II processor-based system with 6GB of 1.6GHz RAM, two amazingly fast Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB HDD’s, a 24-inch 1080p high definition monitor and a factory over-clocked PowerColor HD 5850 PCS+ video card for less than the cost of Intel’s top-end i7 processor on its own. You bite the bullet, buy it, install Windows 7, and with much fanfare and expectation you run the Windows Experience Index (WEI) tool only to have your ego pitifully deflated by a horrible 5.9 rating for your hard disks, which are in RAID0 configuration and pumping more than 4x the bandwidth of a standard hard disk.
Scenario 2: You spent a small fortune on the best and fastest laptop you could find, which has Vista installed and gives a Windows Experience Index of 5; you upgrade to Windows 7 and your ego is pitifully deflated by a shocking score of 2.
In this article kadaitcha.cx will explain the discrepancies and advise you what to do about it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: This page provides advice, links to resources, sample sounds, high-definition videos and guides to help you show off the capabilities of your Windows 7 surround sound system. Unless you have a great collection of Dolby digitally encoded DVDs or some of the more recent Dolby encoded PC games, 3D surround-sound samples are generally hard to come by, but not now. Read the rest of this entry »
When Firefox started to become popular kadaitcha.cx watched the site’s browser stats for Firefox creep up to and then surpass the 10% mark. There was much rejoicing back then because if 10% of visitors were using Firefox then there was finally a serious competitor to Internet Exploder, and that was taking place despite the Microsoft Borg’s shenanigans in forcing users to comply with its will. A few years later, in 2009, kadaitcha.cx watched as the Firefox stats crept up to close to 30%, but still not surpassing Internet Exploder as the preferred browser. Read the rest of this entry »