Just found this great post from Steve Clayton, using Windows 7 to search the twitter stream from with the the explorer shell. Very useful. Simply download the search connector from my colleague Marc Holmes blog search connector for Windows 7 any your away.
Tag: Windows 7
Windows 7 Error Message
First error in Windows 7 Beta this morning. Shock horror, and interesting one that made me laugh. I attempted to launch explorer, to browse the file system and here you go. The point here is that we (Microsoft) need your feedback. If you get an error click the Send Feedback link please. It…
Managing Remote Hyper- Servers from Windows 7
How to access Hyper-V servers from Windows 7! So its done all PC’s and Laptops in my possession are running Windows 7. This is cool, however I was building out a demo and need to manage Hyper-v from my main laptop running Windows 7. Ahhh, not quite straight forward at this point. so I went…
Pink Samsung NC10 Netbook anyone?
Samsung has finally released the NC10 colour every man, woman and child has been waiting for: Hot Pink. OK, so it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it actually look great and works. The colour isn’t the wishy-washy pink of some other laptops, the slick top looks very expensive and the spec is identical to…
Explorer copy progress on the task bar.
An interesting observation made my a colleague of mine. Having used Windows 7 now for what seems like ages’ its the some things that you start to take for granted. So just to point out If you pin Explorer to the taskbar and start a copy, the explorer icon acts as a progress bar for…
Get ready for Windows 7 – What to know more?
Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable Windows 7: To the Beta and Beyond ADD TO CALENDAR Date: Tuesday, February 12th Time: 11:00am Pacific Time Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of subject matter experts for a live discussion of what’s in store for IT pros with Windows® 7. Learn about the evolution of features like Group Policy,…
Everything Netbook
So have posted about owning a Samsung NC10 on a couple of occasions. So what has the experience been like? Purchased the NC10 for £298.00 in addition to a 2G Dimm. On receipt, a screw driver, one screw and the Dimm installed. Windows 7 installed and not looked back. Where to do for information: http://www.sammynetbook.com/…
Installing Windows 7 on a Netbook via USB
As discussed I have been running my Netbook Samsung NC10 for the past 6 week with Windows 7. Apart from selling over 15 NC10’s during my travels to London on the train, along with of course Windows 7 demo’s. I get asked once I have obtained the public Beta how do I get Windows 7…
Windows SDK Beta for Windows 7 is posted
Here it is, the SDK you have been waiting for! Now fire up Visual Studio and lets see what you can do! The Windows SDK team is proud to announce that the Beta release of the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is now live for you to install. The…
The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets – by Tim Sneath
Again on the Windows 7 Beta march, today will see the last of my PC’s moving to Windows 7 Beta. The PC in question is my primary work Laptop. Being a Lenovo T61p with 4G or RAM, I have high expectation on performance. Currently I am running Vista x64 Ultimate, the plan is to install…