When you are planning to install a new web browser on your system, or to upgrade one of the browsers to a newer version, you need to make sure that your system meets the requirements for that. While it is usually not a issue anymore when it comes to hardware requirements, you may notice that it is a completely different story when it comes to supported operating systems for instance. Firefox users on Windows 2000 will for instance notice that ...
Every time you connect a new device to Windows, its information get added to the Registry. One of the ideas behind this is to improve device discovery on consecutive connects to the PC. Some users, especially those who connect a wide variety of devices to their system, or have done so in the past, experience slower begin up times because of this. How? To find out whether a device is present but not connected, is to try to connect to ...
Microsoft has just announced their plans for Windows Media Center, the company’s full screen media interface. Windows Media Center includes tool to watch and record TV broadcasts, and options to watch videos, view pics and listen to music using the software. And thanks to plug-in support, Media Center users get also access to third party services like Netflix. Media Center was included in many versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, but things do not look this bright when it ...
Having one or multiple proxy servers at hand can be quite useful on the Internet these days. Even though the Internet itself is globally accessible from virtually any location, you will run into restrictions eventually. This can be websites that only grant users of a certain geographic region to access their contents, countries that block their citizens from accessing certain sites, or organizations that block access to sites and services in the work environment. Proxy servers can be a viable ...
With apps making the core of the Metro user interface in Windows 8, come new challenges for system administrators, organizations and businesses to control what users are granted to do, and what they should not do when it comes to these new features. One of the things that admins need to think about is that users can install and uninstall Metro apps as they please, unless guidelines and rules prevent them from doing so. A company installing a series of ...
With Windows 8 shipping without a begin menu, third party solutions are starting to be released to fill the gap for users who prefer to use a begin menu in Microsoft’s upcoming operating system. We already reviewed Start8, a third party app that is bringing a version of the Metro begin page to the desktop front of the operating system. The latest program to add begin menu support back to Windows 8 is , a collection of programs that is ...
Microsoft has formally launched its Windows Phone 7.5 operating system in mainland China, marking the official entry of this mobile OS into the Chinese market. During the launch meeting, three types of smartphones, including Nokia Lumia 800, HTC Titan, and ZTE Tania, using Windows Phone OS were displayed. In addition, Samsung’s new Windows Phone product will reportedly be launched in mainland China soon. Microsoft announced that there have been over 70,000 applications based on the Windows Phone OS, of which ...
When you try to delete a file or folder in Windows Explorer, a confirmation prompt is displayed first that is basically asking you if you want to proceed with the deletion of the file. If you are making use of the Recycle Bin on the operating system, you get a are you sure you want to move this file to the Recycle Bin prompt. If you have opted-out of using the Recycle Bin, you will see the are you sure ...
I received an error message that Aero was not enabled the first time I tried to install the custom Mac OS X theme for Windows 7. I remembered that I was running Aero Basic only, and assumed that the theme could only be installed properly if full Aero was enabled. After switching to full Aero with a right-click on Personalize and the selection of an Aero theme in the themes manager, I received the same error message again. Something was ...
Updates for the Windows operating system can be installed in a number of ways. From using the system’s built-in automatic update feature to downloading and installing updates manually. Automatic Windows updates seem to be the preferred method for the majority of users. We have covered the ins and outs of the Windows Update feature in an overview article previously. If you read it, you should have a solid understanding of how it functions, and of some of the errors that ...