Office 2007 Search Commands

Having rebuilt my laptop last night with Win 7 RC and my main day to day software, today I am finding all the little extras that are just indispensible.  One of these is the add-in from Microsoft Office labs that provides an extra Tab in the ribbon (across all tabbed Office products) that gives you …

Windows 7 RC here we go…

OK so I’m a Geek, fan boy, enthusiast, idiot, lunatic, moron (*delete as you wish!!), but I have been on Win7 since Jan including interim builds and I like it.  It has taken some effort over the past few days to resist getting the RC from the various torrent sources and wait for the official …

Windows 7 generic RNDIS with Win Mobile HTC – Solution

I recently posted the problem at the bottom of this blog, while trying to get my HTC TYTN to work with Windows 7 either via USB or bluetooth.  Well good news I found a solution. From WinMob menu select Settings, then click the connections tab Now click USB to PC Make sure the “Enable advanced …

Windows 7 – 12 days in, experiences so far

Basically its been a pleasant experience so far. I haven’t experienced any of the “installer bug” problems reported on M-J F’s site and anything that has occurred has been pretty minor (touch wood, make required sacrifices to the beta gods, fingers crossed etc.)  And so with things going so well my feedback is limited, but …

And that way Beta Madness Lays……

Since installing Win7 Beta on the test machine at home on the 7th I have been impressed.  So far the only real issues have been associated with IE8 “stability and compatibility”, which was quickly addressed by downloading Firefox.  In fact it has been such a “safe” experience that I am considering installing Win7 beta on …

Problem getting Win 7 product key from MSDN

As outlined in previous post on experiences installing Win 7 earlier today I had a problem getting a product key from MSDN – kept getting error message. My plan was to wait until it was fixed, but by accident/cock up I hit the enter key and the install continued. Well pretty pleased I didn’t wait …

Win7 – initial experiences

Patience is a virtue they say and in my own way I have been patient.  I’ve seen the bittorrent leaks and resisted, I’ve had a machine that has needed a rebuild for months but resisted.  But today I woke up to the official beta download and patience went out the window.  So along with many, …