We’ve been running and testing Windows 7 on my wife’s Toshiba laptop for a few days now. She’s very happy with the install and the experience and hasn’t had any problems whatsoever.

She said there was just a little bit of adjustment for some of the user-interface changes,  but there was nothing real major for her that she used on a regular basis.
I still haven’t played around with it too much, but what I have I’ve liked. Things seem to be organized more intuitively over all. It’s still a slight adjustment after running with Windows XP for so many years. I …read more

I came across a feature of Windows XP file explorer that I hadn’t seen before today. Normally when I want to sent files to someone I don’t browse to the file and use the "Send To Mail Recipient" option. I’m not following my own advice still of reversing my email composition.

Today I was doing some work and my brother wanted me to email him the social media icon graphics I’d created for a website client. Since I was sending a large group of files I just opened the folder and clicked on all of the files he requested.
I then selected …read more

I’ve been dealing with an ongoing issue lately where my computer is locking up and freezing for some reason. It always happens whenever I’m in a folder either trying to view, copy or move files around on my system.

What will happen is that I’ll click on a file or collection of files and normally try to send them to another folder location or copy them to move them somewhere else.
Normally, as soon as I right-click on the files to access the right-click menu, the system stops responding. I’ve determined lately that if I immediately go to Task Manager and …read more

I’m normally not one to like storing items on my computer desktop. Perhaps what’s weird is that I also prefer that all the files I download from the Internet are saved to my Desktop instead of the normal downloads folder.

What I’ve done is customize the “Send To” menu that’s available from the right-click context menu. My customizations allow me to right-click on any file and quickly send the file to another destination folder for saving, storage or organization.
Customizing the menu is fairly easy, you can just follow the instructions below:

Create a shortcut on your desktop to the location/folder where you …read more

Reading a PC Magazine article discussing Windows 7 Libraries has caused me to think again about previous thoughts on file management issues in Windows operating systems. A library functions along the lines of logically grouping similar file types together.
This isn’t a massively different way of thinking thatn what we’ve seen before in both Windows XP and Windows Vista with the My Music and My Pictures folders. The different way of looking at this file relationship though is that when you would open your My Music and My Pictures folders you were opening a single folder and looking at a group …read more

I came across a great post over at Vitalsecurity.org the other day (part of the awesome Security Bloggers Network) about when security goes too far. RapidShare is a great solution for sharing large amounts of data. It’s ad and premium-user supported and allows for an unlimited amount of bandwidth (free users have 100MB file limit while paid users get 2GB file limit).
There are a few limitations or annoyances if you’re not a paid user. You need to wait a certain amount of time before downloading (usually less than 2 minutes), you can’t download more than one file …read more