Posts Tagged ‘windows’

Old dog, new tricks: Windows XP task bar

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Did you know you can have a two row task bar in XP? Yeah, so did I. But did you know that you can arrange the icons like this?

My XP taskbar

My XP taskbar

And iTunes supplies a pretty nifty little toolbar app too. Pity it doesn’t do mouse-over track info though….

Must be time to clean out the registry….

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

The LinuxHater has very good points, a lot of the the time, and about a lot of things. I was actually starting to get used to the idea of not running a Linux desktop.
After the big computer rebuild, the machine was running better, but still had some slow areas.
I realised it had accumulated a lot of cruft! Lots of badly un-installed software that you thought you had uninstalled, there were a tonne of services starting up that just no longer required at all!
Well, that’s no real difference to something LinuxHater accused Linux of having to do: namely, get stuck in and maintain your distribution.

I actuality, I wonder if the LinuxHater really runs windows at all, something I’ve always assumed, and I bet I wasn’t alone in doing so.

Update: Turns out he does, a Ubuntu desktop

Because honestly, sometime I really hate computers. You know? Why can't they Just Work. This is usually when people tell me to try a Mac. I've thought about it so much, but I never quite get to the point of actually doing anything about it.