January 2009

By aaron.axvig, Tue, 01/13/2009 - 03:00

I have been annoyed by needing to setup my taskbar pinned items every time I set up a new Windows 7 install, so really wanted to find out where they are stored.  They are buried pretty deep: C:\Users\**Username**\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

So now I will be able to keep a copy of a bunch of shortcuts handy and just copy them in there.  I'm thinking cmd, Notepad, Calculator, several Office apps, Irfanview, and Paint will be priorities for now.

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By aaron.axvig, Mon, 01/12/2009 - 03:00

Windows 7 is shaping up to be a pretty perfomant operating system.  I've been ripping CDs in the background, which easily maxes out the processor on my 1.83GHz Pentium M.  All the while I've been playing songs and browsing websites with no performance problems.  Only just now when I added installing Acrobat Reader on to the top of all that did I notice some slow-downs (slight glitches in music playback).

Now you might say that this is no big deal, an OS should be able to do all of those things.  But this is with 512MB of RAM, the afore-mentioned processor, and a crappy laptop HDD.  So far I would say the performance is way closer to XP than Vista was on this machine.  But the features are way better than XP.  I'll try not to get too optimistic, but from what I've seen in the last few hours Windows 7 is going to be a hot item.

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By aaron.axvig, Tue, 01/06/2009 - 03:00

Sun's VirtualBox really irked me off, so here I am whining.

  • Unable to change mounted CD-ROM while the machine is running.
  • Huge delete button.  How often do you delete a virtual machine?
  • Crappy virtual disk manager.  Why do I want to manage my ISOs, I already have them in folders just let me mount one.
  • Unable to hard power-off a virtual machine.
  • Unable to send shut down signal to virtual machine.
  • Unable to send reset signal to virtual machine.
  • Unable to do any sort of power-off input.
  • I find it hard to believe that these features aren't there at all, but they shouldn't be hidden so well if they are there.  I should be able to right-click on the machine in the manager and knock it dead.

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