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February 20th, 2008

XP SP2 vs. Vista SP1 in Head-to-Head Battle

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet  has delivered on what lots of people have probably been wanting to hear and see in plain black-and-white hard data.
In a head-to-head battle between Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista SP1, what would the results show between the two combatants.
Over the past few days I posted two sets of benchmarks […]

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February 20th, 2008

What Is A Computer’s RAM Limit

Okay, here’s a quick question for the masses. Is the limit of available RAM on a machine really what the manufacturer says? For example, every machine I own has two RAM slots and each of them can hold 1GB chip for a max of 2GB total on the machine.
Is that really the limit? If I […]

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February 16th, 2008

Where’s the Love? It’s Just an OS

Deb Shinder shared a feeling about the much advertised and promoted OS dysfunction in a recent issue of VistaNews. She shared her feelings around the Valentine’s Day holiday last week.
But why does Vista inspire such animosity among so much of the neutral or Windows-centric press? Again, people had the same complaints about XP (I know, […]

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January 24th, 2008

Keyboard shortcuts for Windows

I was just searching for a site to help me remember some of the quick and powerful Windows Key keyboard shortcuts that were available and found this Knowledge Base Article and thought I’d share with everyone.
Some of my favorites are:

SHIFT + DELETE: deletes permanently without going to Recycle Bin
ALT + TAB: quickly switch through […]

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January 19th, 2008

Folder Size for Windows Delivers

Thanks to deezil for alerting me to this little download that does exactly what I was looking for that I mentioned in my last post.

It doesn’t work in Windows Vista, but works great in XP! Go grab Folder Size for Windows for yourself from Sourceforge.
Thanks deezil!
IceRocket Tags: Folder Size for Windows, folder size, details […]

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January 18th, 2008

Show Me Folder Size Information on Details View

 
Here’s another short software request.
When I’ve selected “Details” view for a directory of files I want the display to show me the total size of a folder’s files.
I realize the immediate draw back may be the time it would take for the window to determine the file size for all files in a directory and […]

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January 17th, 2008

Managing My OneCare Circle

I’ve come across an dilemma in my use of Windows Live OneCare. You see, I’ve been recommending and installing this software on lots of people’s machines. Mainly family members and some client accounts. Then of course there are the three computers in my house that have it installed. It would be four but it […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

January 11th, 2008

Wasted Space in Folder List View

When viewing a folder of files and you’ve set them to display in list view as shown above, what specifies the distance between columns in the view?
Is it a set pixel width?
Is it set to the width of the longest file name?
Is it random?
What I’d like is to be able to resize these columns […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

January 11th, 2008

Windows Update - Windows XP (KB934238)

Anyone else having problems with the KB934238 update installing on their machines? After a quick search I found a couple of posts about it and ended up just telling my machine to ignore the update.
Has that given anyone else any additional problems by just ignoring it?
On a related note, anyone got a link on how […]

By Jason Bean -- 19 comments

January 2nd, 2008

Top 10 Posts on Microsoft Weblog in 2007

As we begin a new year with The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog, let’s take a look back at the Top 10 posts last year.

#10 My Xbox 360 Update
#9 Wal-Mart Experiences Red Ring of Death
#8 Halo 3 Retail Box Packaging Leaked
#7 More Halo 3 Screen Shots
#6 Is Office 2007 […]

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