A Win 7 option that has seen very little chatter is starting to make the rounds. God Mode is Control Panel on Steroids. Every setting, every option, is in one sheet. It has been reported that this will work in Vista 32bit as well, but will crash the 64bit. To achieve God status in the [...]

Windows 7 was supposed to have a feature built into it that allowed a user to take one WiFi network and share it much like a wireless router. The feature was killed before the release of Windows 7 (legal issues?) but  a company called Nomadio has pulled that feature back from the grave with an [...]

If you’ve tried to run Win 7 with all the bells and whistles in an OSX environment, you’ve undoubtedly come up against a few problems. Have no fear VMware is here. Fusion 3 has some fantastic updates that will allow you to run Win 7 64 bit with Areo and Flip 3-D. Fusion 3 has [...]

A fairly complete list of hot keys for Win 7: Basic Shortcuts F1 Display Help Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+Insert) Copy the selected item Ctrl+X Cut the selected item Ctrl+V (or Shift+Insert) Paste the selected item Ctrl+Z Undo an action Ctrl+Y Redo an action Delete (or Ctrl+D) Delete the selected item and move it to the Recycle [...]

Today is Patch Tuesday. This is the day when Microsoft updates and patches all the errors and vulnerabilities that have been found in the recent past. This week the geeks at Microsoft address 34 security problems within 13 updates. Eight of these will be labeled critical. Of those, two very serious issues are being addressed.  [...]

Microsoft is reporting that a Zero-Day Flaw does affect Vista but does not affect Windows 7. The Zero-Day Flaw in this case is a vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) implementation. Researcher Laurent Gaffie stated that the flaw lies in the SMB2 driver in which the “SRV2.SYS fails to handle malformed SMB headers for [...]

As most of you know, Windows 7 is due to be released this October. This OS is being touted as Microsoft’s crowing achievement, their penance for the fiasco that was Vista. Many have opted to stay all these years with XP and I don’t really blame them. These XP fans are understandably hesitant to make [...]

Netbooks are one of the biggest things on the market today. Most of these do not include optical drives. CNET got the low down from a source within Microsoft stating that there is the possibility that Windows 7 may be released on a USB flash drive. Though Microsoft has at this time no official stance, [...]

Canonical’s Scott James Remnant relayed in an email how the team wishes to get a 10 sec boot time out for the ever popular linux distibution. The hope to have the whole up and running with disk and chipset at a ready state in 10 seconds. The team has pulled off miracles before (making Linux [...]