Yet another thing that I’ve been suffering with and finally decided to tackle and straighten out! On my monster laptop, which is running Windows 7 64bit and does almost everything faster than believable, Windows Explorer has been driving me batty. It was slow to display the contents of folders and when I tried to go to…
This one is from way off in left field, but it explains many oddities that I’ve seen over the last 6 or more months, I think. Stick with me as I explain it. There are some goodies along the way, as well as the solution to this problem. At the very least, I get to…
This is a total "Why the heck didn’t I know this???" thing. Since I upgraded to Windows 7, I’ve been manually minimizing all my windows to get to the desktop and each time cursing those Windows devils for removing the Show Desktop icon from the Windows Quick Launch. The one that I’ve been used to…
I’ve seen several people over the last few weeks tweet about getting the wrong version of Windows 7 on a new laptop. They then say that they will be formatting and reinstalling Windows. Don’t do it! With Anytime Upgrade, you can just enter the appropriate key for the version you have licensed and you’ll be…
In a previous post, TiVo Desktop 2.7 with Windows 7, I thought I’d hit on a fix for getting the TiVo Desktop software running right with Windows 7. Alas, my joy was premature. I kept getting errors both in trying to transfer shows from my TiVo to my PC as well as when I tried…
Here’s an off-topic post for you. I can’t live without my TiVo, but it’s been quite a long while since I’ve used TiVo Desktop to transfer shows to my PC. Somewhere along the way I uninstalled TiVo Desktop, certainly before I upgraded to Windows 7. The new TV season and some of the great shows…