Free PDF guide to Windows 7 Search
Posted by Mike Halsey in guides and how to's, windows 7 on 24. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Yesterday I published the article Why Windows 7 search is the way it is, and what lies ahead, in which Dan Plastina, the group manager for the Find and Organise features within the Windows 7 beta explained why the search, organisation and library features in Microsoft’s latest operating system turned out the way they did.
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Why Windows 7 search is the way it is
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows 7 on 23. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
A year ago I published an article entitled “Windows 7 and the Death of Search” in which I criticised the new search facility in the then forthcoming Windows 7. There are a great many reasons why this new way of searching came about, and why Microsoft changed it from the multi-level drop-down search of Windows [...]
Upgrade XP to Windows 7, the magic bullet?
Posted by Mike Halsey in software picks, windows 7 on 11. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
One of the biggest problems with Windows 7 is that the architecture is so radically different to XP as to make upgrading impossible. You can only do a clean install if you want to move from one OS to the newer one. The reason for this is that if Microsoft allowed you to upgrade “in-place”, [...]
Windows 7 in a box
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows 7 on 30. Dec, 2009 | 1 Comment
Windows 7 is unusual as a Windows version as, out of the box, it needs less tweaking than any previous version. However there’s still an awful lot you can tweak and finding the right place to do it can be annoying because the settings panels for the OS are scattered all over the place.
Enter Windows [...]
7 Presents for Windows 7 owners
Posted by Mike Halsey in windows 7 on 03. Dec, 2009 | 0 Comments
It’s Christmas time again and all those people who already have Windows 7 on their PCs, or who will be getting a new Windows 7 PC for Christmas will be looking forward to seeing if they get any Windows 7 goodies in their stockings. Here I thought I’d run through some gifts you can share.
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