In a previous post, I had complained about the fact that my year-old Windows system took enormously long to get up and running, and I received a few comments on that. The past few days, triggered by a hardware issue with my old “main” hd, I took the time to reinstall the system completely. I have just finished doing that, at least to the point where I have all the must-have software up and running again, and I have had success in one area at least: the complete system boot process, including lo …
It’s free and it contains six add-ons to your Tablet PC. From the web page:
Ink Desktop
Take notes directly on your desktop for quick and easy access later. Jot down a phone number, directions, or top priorities for the day.
Snipping Tool
Use your tablet pen to select a portion of a website, document, or other content on your screen. You can add handwritten comments and then paste it into an e-mail message or other program.
Ink Art
Paint with your tablet pen using Ink Art, whi …
A OneNote notebook is comprised of separate files, which may be stored in different locations. Sure, if you first create a new “Section” in OneNote itself, the application will create the new file in the default path (which can be customised via Tools/Options/Open and Save). But you can easily move that file elsewhere once it’s been created. Just create a normal Windows link to the file in your notebook folder and OneNote will show the tab with a small symbol on it, so you know that file is not …
Today I saw on the web the homepage of Jeff Relf. Of course that’s just my personal opinion, but that guy has a really weird visual setup in his Windows! The first thing I saw was this shot of a Visual Studio window:
(I downloaded this image to my server to avoid creating too much traffic for Jeff. The original source is here.)
If you like what you see, on the web page you can find a user stylesheet for Firefox that’ll make web pages look just the same! …
I just read a very interesting article in Chris Pratley’s OneNote blog, titled OneNote Shared Sessions. Although I’ve been using OneNote for a long time (and lately even more on my Motion Computing M1400 Tablet PC), I had never had a close look at that feature. Now I tried it, I find it fantastic! Not only does it simply work very well, it’s really easy to use (there’s a nice introduction at OneNoteAnswers) and it tries to be easily compatible with your network setup by using only one UDP port …
If you believe Microsoft’s description for the DNS Client service, it’s needed to resolve and cache DNS names. They emphasize that if the service is stopped, the computer will not be able to resolve DNS names and locate Active Directory domain controllers. Well, I can’t say anything about the Active Directory domain controllers, but as far as the DNS resolutions go, this descriptions appears to be plain wrong.
I first found out about this a while after installing a Windows XP machine, with SP1 …