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For a pre-Beta, Win 8 is impressive, but it freezes after a period of time - often while in media player. The O/S has been clean installed, over installed and refresh installed repeatedly. Search is disabled via services.msc. Live tiles and various contact-the-net or sharing options are also...

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hope you get a smile out of this one. (I don't care what party you like, this one's funny!!) A Republican, in a wheelchair, entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The Republican looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that...

Many hardware vendors have recently shown new Windows 7-based tablet computers at Computex in Taipei. However Windows is suffering from not being very well optimized for touch screen interaction. Source: Yahoo! News

Many hardware vendors have recently shown new Windows 7-based tablet computers at Computex in Taipei. However Windows is suffering from not being very well optimized for touch screen interaction. More...

This is a never ending story built up three words at a time its just for fun and can be very funny, so I would post (I opened the ...) and you may post (door and saw ...) and so the story continues :) Rules - you can only post three words , and lets keep it clean. Start > I saw the ...

The latest research that has been done by Cystic Fibrosis Trust stated that the active media social users have two times friends in cyberspace than in the real world. Nowadays, people tend to be more open minded, honest, and confident if they communicate with their virtual friends. Helen...

NUI is fast becoming ubiquitous when it comes interacting with our computers. Speech, touch, and now gesture are becoming everyday control methods for our machines. What is next on the horizon of user interaction? Tobii would like that to be the gaze of your eye. I met Anders Olsson at CES this...

Link Removed due to 404 Error A former Microsoft Xbox developer says the recent Sony PlayStation Network hack may have been the result of "consumer retaliation" for Sony's lawsuits against PS3 hackers. "Going after individuals in a manner that may not stimulate good favor towards the...

In this video, Link Removed (Sr. Technical Evangelist for Team Foundation Server) demonstrates the beta of the new OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010. The purpose of this project is to help developers work with data from Team Foundation Server on multiple types of devices (such as...

Innovation is an overused buzzword these days. What does it mean, really? Well, Microsoft Research is in the business of scientific discovery which often leads to innovations that end up in the hands of computer users (or not in the hands of the computer users as the case may be). One area of...

For all of you .NET developers out there be prepared to be absolutely stunned! This is an amazing new Microsoft technology to be in Beta soon. This will change the way us developers interact with different data sources and design applications. This is the fastest RAD (Rapid Application...

Questionnaire to Help Improve Windows7Forums.com Hello, if you have been using the website, even for one day, it’s important to get your opinion on how you view the website and what can be done better. That is why answers need to be collected to see what can be done to improve the website...

How do users operate when they visit this forum (or any other) I have never posed a question, so regard myself as being in a "help" category. To merely select "New Posts", unless you are a very prolific poster, with time on your hands, can reveal a mass of material, a lot of which, if one is...

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I'm running Win XP Pro on VirtualBox V3.1.3 inside Win7 Home Premium and I have a mouse problem I've installed Guest Additions but my mouse isn't working properly Once I've booted up Win XP Pro my mouse travels OK across the Win7/Win XP Pro window boundary But, when I click the Mouse inside...

I have a Microsoft brand USB mouse connected by wire to a desktop computer. When I allow the computer to go to sleep, I cannot wake it up via the mouse. A tap on the keyboard will wake the computer up, but all I get out of the mouse is a slight twitch before it freezes. Once I am back onto...

Hi there, I have Win 7 Home Edition and on my former OS (Win XP Prof.) I had several shortcuts linking to some batch files. So after new installation of Win 7 it copied the shortcuts back on the desktop of Win 7. These shortcuts are working fine so far .... BUT .... now here it comes: I am also...

Here's a cool application made for Windows 7 that changes the way the taskbar works in two ways. The first is that, by default, if there are multiple instances of one application open, a single left click on the app's icon displays the thumbnail previews of all the windows in that application...

http://www.windows7.cc/windows7-news/windows-7-will-have-touch-feature/ Sounds good to me, another reason to dump my 3 year old 17" lcd and get a touch screen :P (j/k).