Dual-Booting Windows 7 Beta may loose current OS boot option
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to Windows Reference RSS feed Thanks for visiting! When trying to Dual-Boot your Windows 7 beta with Windows Vista or Windows XP and installed Windows 7 in a seperate hard disk then you would have lost the option to Dual-Boot from your previous OS (say Windows [...]
Windows Vista fails to obtain IP Address from DHCP Server/Router
Sometimes your Windows Vista will fail to obtain an IP Address from a DHCP server like your Broadband or Wireless router. This is due to a design change in Windows Vista. Unlike in Windows XP (and in the later Windows 7 Beta), Windows Vista DHCP Discovery packets have Broadcast flag enabed by default. This means [...]
Watch Lyrics while playing songs in Windows Media Player
Forget about googling around the internet to find the lyrics of your favorite music album. Lyrics plugin for Windows Media Player does the job for you. Lyrics is a free Windows Media Player plugin that displays the lyrics of your favroite music songs as it plays making it that little more pleasant to enjoy the [...]
Reliability Monitor missing in Windows 7 beta???
Are you wondering if Microsoft has taken off the Relaibility Monitor from Windows 7 then hold on. Its the same old story, Microsoft loves to give you a bit of a run around by changing names or make it available elsewhere. Yes, it is available under Action Center as “View System history”.
Disable IPv6 Random identifier in Windows 7, Server 2008 & Vista
Starting Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, to prevent address scans of IPv6 addresses based on the known company IDs of network adapter manufacturers, Windows by default generate random interface IDs for non-temporary autoconfigured IPv6 addresses, including public and link-local addresses. A public IPv6 address is a global address that is registered in [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to Windows Reference RSS feed Thanks for visiting! When trying to Dual-Boot your Windows 7 beta with Windows Vista or Windows XP and installed Windows 7 in a seperate hard disk then you would have lost the option to Dual-Boot from your previous OS (say Windows [...]
Sometimes your Windows Vista will fail to obtain an IP Address from a DHCP server like your Broadband or Wireless router. This is due to a design change in Windows Vista. Unlike in Windows XP (and in the later Windows 7 Beta), Windows Vista DHCP Discovery packets have Broadcast flag enabed by default. This means [...]
Watch Lyrics while playing songs in Windows Media Player
Forget about googling around the internet to find the lyrics of your favorite music album. Lyrics plugin for Windows Media Player does the job for you. Lyrics is a free Windows Media Player plugin that displays the lyrics of your favroite music songs as it plays making it that little more pleasant to enjoy the [...]
Reliability Monitor missing in Windows 7 beta???
Are you wondering if Microsoft has taken off the Relaibility Monitor from Windows 7 then hold on. Its the same old story, Microsoft loves to give you a bit of a run around by changing names or make it available elsewhere. Yes, it is available under Action Center as “View System history”.
Disable IPv6 Random identifier in Windows 7, Server 2008 & Vista
Starting Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, to prevent address scans of IPv6 addresses based on the known company IDs of network adapter manufacturers, Windows by default generate random interface IDs for non-temporary autoconfigured IPv6 addresses, including public and link-local addresses. A public IPv6 address is a global address that is registered in [...]
Forget about googling around the internet to find the lyrics of your favorite music album. Lyrics plugin for Windows Media Player does the job for you. Lyrics is a free Windows Media Player plugin that displays the lyrics of your favroite music songs as it plays making it that little more pleasant to enjoy the [...]
Are you wondering if Microsoft has taken off the Relaibility Monitor from Windows 7 then hold on. Its the same old story, Microsoft loves to give you a bit of a run around by changing names or make it available elsewhere. Yes, it is available under Action Center as “View System history”.
Disable IPv6 Random identifier in Windows 7, Server 2008 & Vista
Starting Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, to prevent address scans of IPv6 addresses based on the known company IDs of network adapter manufacturers, Windows by default generate random interface IDs for non-temporary autoconfigured IPv6 addresses, including public and link-local addresses. A public IPv6 address is a global address that is registered in [...]
Starting Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, to prevent address scans of IPv6 addresses based on the known company IDs of network adapter manufacturers, Windows by default generate random interface IDs for non-temporary autoconfigured IPv6 addresses, including public and link-local addresses. A public IPv6 address is a global address that is registered in [...]
