Category Archives: Windows

Thunderbird 2 Released

By Bish | Published: 20/04/2007 – 12:38 | Posted in Apple, News, Quick, Software, Technology, Windows | Comments (0)

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 has come out of testing and been released to the public. With an increased feature set, it will be interesting to see whether quality app has kept pace with Outlook 2007 which has had some good press recently.

How to: Get VLC Running in Vista

By Bish | Published: 18/02/2007 – 15:40 | Posted in How To, Microsoft, Quick, Software, Windows | Comments (21)

I am not sure whether there is an issue affecting all users of (the excellent) VideoLAN on Vista but it has definitely caused me problems. After installing VLC 0.8.6a on Vista the sound appeared to be fine but no picture was displayed. It seems that this is an issue with the output module in VLC but can be easily fixed by editing the settings or preferences.

  1. Go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Preferences’
  2. Expand the ‘Video’ option and click on ‘Output Modules’
  3. Change the ‘Video Output Module’ from the drop down list to ‘DirectX Video Output’
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Hell On Earth – But Well Worth Doing

By Bish | Published: 18/12/2006 – 00:50 | Posted in Opinion, Personal, Quick, Technology, Windows | Comments (0)

Its akin to pulling out your finger nails with pliers but finally I have done it. When your computer takes 5 mins from boot to get to a point where you can use it and you have to click ok three times through errors you know its time to reformat your hard disk.

USB2 had turned back into USB1, I was getting read / write errors all the time and little messages about software I had never heard of. Sick to the back teeth of searching for adware or virus scanning I had to give in. Trouble is I had about 20 DVD’s of backups (general non vital stuff) to do first, but with a Saturday and Sunday spare I wrote off my weekend!!

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Firefox 2 and IE7 – Not Quite a Browser War

By Bish | Published: 31/10/2006 – 20:47 | Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, Personal, Software, Web, Web Design, Windows | Comments (1)

It looks as though it really is the season to be releasing a browser with the recent official release of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and the third release candidate of Firefox 2. I can’t help feeling that the much of the coverage surrounding the releases really boils down to hype with the media and blogsphere trying to build this into another browser war.A ‘war’, ‘battle’, ‘face off’ or whatever you want to label it, regardless of who is contesting , requires two fundamental factors; 2 willing contenders.

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How To: Add Folders to the Start Menu

By Bish | Published: 02/06/2006 – 17:19 | Posted in How To, Microsoft, Quick, Windows | Comments (2)

There’s a folder in my documents that I regularly access that I wanted listed on my Start Menu. There are other ways of quickly accessing folders or documents such as having quick links on the taskbar or shortcuts on the desktop but the real advantage of this is the keyboard shortcut with the Windows key, the first letter of the folder and the return key.

  1. Open up regedit from using the run menu.
  2. Locate ‘HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ Folder\ shellex\ ContextMenuHandlers‘
  3. Add the following as a subkey: ‘{a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}’ (without the quotes!)
  4. Exit regedit…… (Continued)………
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