Recent content by blued

Why not go to these programs directories (C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer and Windows Mail) and right click on them to pin them to the menu?

Heh heh, I solved the problem just before reading your post. This is a weird one. With msconfig, I disabled all the services and problem was gone. So I knew it was service related. I narrowed it down to the Desktop Window Manager (which is responsible for taskbar thumbnail previews and other...

Thanks for the reply. Nothing unusual in Event Viewer, the only things that come up are a couple of warning notes on a display driver (Nvidia) and CTxfispi.exe, a Creative driver. I've seen such things in previous installations but they never seemed to cause any apparent problems. Furthermore...

Hi, I fresh installed Win 7 RTM on my PC for testing purposes and found that its slower to boot up than the RC 7100 build (around 55 sec vs 35 sec). I think it may have something to do with the user account, since logging on from off takes a long time in itself ( around 30 sec on the welcome...

Heh heh, when everyone was saying June 19, I said it will come out in August. :D

After much speculations? :razz: I'll bet it doesnt show up on June 29. Didnt show up on the 19th, so rumor mongers began making up excuses as to why it didnt. If it doesnt show up on the 29th, they'll do the same again to save face. There are probably more false rumors out in the wild than...

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Win 7 uses less ram than Vista, esp for the desktop. DWM.exe (the Desktop Windows Manager) which is responsible for all the eye candy, transparency effects, taskbar thumbnails, etc uses only about 10mb in Win7 as opposed to over 40mb in Vista. That he is using 1gb for just being on the desktop...

Vista and Windows 7 operate on the principle that unused ram is wasted ram. So the OS pre-fetches as much ram as possible in anticipation of its use by the programs you have installed and their memory needs and your usage of these programs. So sometimes you may see very little ram available (it...

Would be cool if the gave it wind noise as well. :D