usability

in the win7 explorer, those fading black and white triangle drive me nuts. You have to hover over them to see which folder has any subfolders. Typical case of let designers do a user-interface-experts job. +/- has been used by milions of people worldwide for decaded and is the interface standard...

Circle Dock: The wheels of the Circle Dock revolution just keep turning unabated!!! Circle Dock What Circle Dock Allows You to Do: -Launch your programs from a circular dock. -Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular dock that you can re-size. -Rotate...

Has anyone any experience of using TOR, I2P or Freenet. Are they any good? which one is best? Information please

Hands-on: Plasma, KWin improve in KDE SC 4.4 beta 1 The developers behind KDE have announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.4 beta 1. We conducted hands-on testing to see what the new version brings to the desktop. KDE was created with the goal of building a desktop environment for...

Link Removed According to a well respected security firm, Microsoft’s flagship Windows 7 operating system is less secure in its default configuration that Vista. Trend Micros CEO Raimund Genes believes that Microsoft has put usability ahead of security: “I’m not saying...

Habitually, I keep six or seven folders on my desktop and, when using XP, they would always remember their individual proportions and what part of the screen they were to open up on - that way I could always have several columns of folders side-by-side, with no overlaps, always with the same...

I just attempted to install win7 x64 on one of my other systems, an AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8GHz, with 2 sata hds both at 500g and server 2003 on the primary drive working fine (so far) ... unless I use Paragon to make a partition on the main drive .. then I see performance hits in server...

I have 2 SATA drives with the OS on 1 and data on the other. I have a spare IDE drive that I use for backup. What I would like to know is. Will the IDE drive now cause Windows 7 to run slow after the log-in screen? The reason I ask is that the time from login to usability has increased since...

I love that you can pin your commonly used applications to the task bar and move them around. I was wondering if anyone has found a way to put dividers in to sepparate different kind of apps. Example: iTunes Winamp _________ Firefox Chrome IE _________ Visual Studio Sql Server...

Okay, when I decided I wanted to use Windows 7 the only thing in my way was Windows Media Player 12. I love WMP11, a lot of people hate it, but I love the way you can navigate your music in it. When I tried the beta I tried WMP12 and hated it, I was sure they would have it running nicely later...

Windows 7 does not boot faster Vista is actually quicker By Link Removed - Invalid URL Thursday, 8 October 2009, 10:41 SYSTEMS EXPERTS with stop watches have poured cold water on Microsoft's claims that its Windows 7 operating system boots up faster than Vista. The Vole has been...

The new taskbar has some great features, Aero Peek and Jump Lists are two things I really like. However, here is the big problem lets say I have a few chat windows open and they're all hidden behind another window (lets say Firefox) If someone sends me a message the chat icon flashes to...

I was wondering, since there will be a several month gap between the end date of the beta and the release of the final win/7, how does this work? forgive my ignorance, this is the first beta i've ever used. Will I be able to access the files I have saved in my folders after the end date, or will...

Hided Icon box ------------------------ in the notification area, windows shows hidden icons with the upper button.. When we click it, the hidden icons box appears.. In hidden box , we can sort the icons but i wish we were able to size it too.. in my windows , 9 icons sorted 3x3 for now, but i...

When using windows 7 my mouse is very slow to respond, and stutters across the screen, making almost uncontrollable. sometimes it moves as it should but most of the time it jerks and stutters all over the screen when im trying to move it. Also it stops responding to button presses ( ie wont...

Honestly everybody knows the taskbar is probably the most updated feature of windows 7 however i think it has a major flaw that is going to make people try to get the quick launch back... there is no simple way of adding one click access to a favorite folder or a hard drive... You cannot...

In the disk manager tool, I tried to partition (create/name) a new partition out of free, unallocated space. but the virtual disk service blows up and the partition is "created" but it gains no letter drive and is not usable. i tried rebooting and trying it again, no luck. same thing happens...

I wonder if anyone tried this with the new task of win 7 1. open 2 windows of firefox/internet explorer 2. open another 2 documents of word 3. minimize all of them now, how do we get to the first opened firefox window? or any of the word document? i have to move the cursor to the firefox icon...

I've been getting crashes with three different types of file transfers: 1. FireFTP plugin for Firefox 2. Filezilla 3. Windows Explorer accessing a shared folder on another computer. Only Windows Explorer recovered back to usability, but the transfer was left incomplete. Any ideas?

Well it's up and running though not at all complete yet. Memory was a piece cake, and I now have 3.3 gig's usable. The Vista 64 bit at least in my opinion is a lot faster than 32bit. I still can only crank up the cpu to 2.38 ghz. But, I know the reason why now. Intel puts a lock on their...