Posts Tagged With: xp
· July 18, 2008 at 6:01 am · Desktop, Personal
Tags: help, my documents, organize, personalize, Vista, Windows, xp
I’ve been out searching for a program that will allow me to quickly color code the folders on my Vista machine. The only problem is, I can find a lot of good programs that work with Windows XP but this must be a harder task to accomplish on Vista.
Here are a few of the Windows XP programs I have tried (all good solutions by the way) that just haven’t gotten the job done thus far.
So I am asking you, do you know of a good Vista folder customizer out there? I need something that would allow me to quickly change the colors to kind of help organize things a ‘bit in my PC. Better yet, how do you organize your “My Document” folders?
· May 6, 2008 at 3:38 am · Desktop, Resources
Tags: goomba, ico, icons, luma, mushroom, png, super mario, Vista, xp
Browsing around Deviant Art I found some of the best looking Super Mario icons I have seen in a long long time. With all the Super Smash Bros Brawl I’ve been playing in the past few weeks - looks like Nintendo is invading my desktop too.
Another awesome detail about these icons are they were all designed by hand by a fantastic Deviant Art artist, ph03nyX. Download them for yourself and make your own desktop look like the Mushroom Kingdom!
· November 21, 2007 at 6:35 am · Desktop, Software Help
Tags: opinions, quick, review, Vista, Windows, xp
For those of you watching my recent twittering, you probably noticed that I ordered myself a new PC. The one thing that made me really reluctant about moving from my old 3 or 4 year old previous Windows XP machine was Windows Vista. I have heard so many horror stories on the Web how could somebody not be scared?
After spending some time with it last night though I have to say it is not that bad. Sure, there is room for improvement - but think about any previous Windows version. It is never “right” when you pull it out of the box. It takes a lot of tweaking, love, tossing midgets at it and affection before you get it the way you want it to be. Read the rest of this entry »
· October 9, 2007 at 5:00 am · Software Help
Tags: Desktop, help, on top, organize, pins, Windows, xp
Working support, I have to look at a multitude of programs and windows on my desktop every single day. Now sure, I would like to pin certain things on top and let other things fall to the bottom of the window stack. The question is - is there an easy way to get that done?
The best program I have found to do just that is DeskPins. This freeware application allows you to put simple pins in the corner of your windows to keep some things on top. Here is some more information on it from the developers of the program:
DeskPins can be used to make any application topmost, that is, to keep it above all other windows. Just grab a pin from the DeskPins icon in the system notification area (a.k.a. taskbar tray) and click on any window.
This adds the “always on top” functionality to every program you use. If you have Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and you want to organize your desktop clutter this is one good way of getting it done.
· September 25, 2007 at 6:19 am · Desktop
Tags: Desktop, styles, visual-style, Windows, xp
I always love finding new Windows XP visual styles that are not only good - but great. Some of them are ugly, others are Mac-clones. Very rarely do you get one as cool as MurrinaFancyClearlooks.
Need help figuring out how to change your XP visual style? Don’t worry this past post should have you covered. Finding this one was kinda like hitting the Windows XP visual style lottery. Just look at all the pretty colors.
· August 28, 2007 at 6:03 am · Personal, Software Help
Tags: install, kubuntu, linux, review, switch, Ubuntu, Windows, wubi, xp
At least once a year I get so frustrated with Windows I look over at Linux and see what is happening on that side of the fence. Now before I might do the whole Live CD thing - my main problem with that though is that my CD drive in this PC sounds like helicopter taking off when I put any disks into it.
So what is a guy wanting to play with Linux, but doesn’t want to do the whole partition dance need to do? Go give Wubi a whirl.
From start to finish, Wubi just makes it almost dead brain simple to get Ubuntu up and running. As a matter of fact, over the past two days I’ve played with Kubuntu and Ubuntu trying to decide which one I like more. When your done with it - you can just uninstall it like you would any other application and it is gone from your system. No messy clean up and no sticky mess.
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