Windows 7: 77 Windows 7 Tips – My (Bob) boss sent me this link today from Microsoft’s TechNet. It has some nice Windows 7 tips. There were one or two that were new to me.
How to Clean Install Windows Vista with Upgrade Media – You might be wondering why I (Bob) picked this article when everyone is talking about and, possibly, moving to Windows 7.
It’s simply because Windows 7 expects you to have your previous operating system on your computer if you’re using an upgrade version. Since I had removed Vista awhile ago and didn’t want to put Windows 7 on top of XP, it looked like I was stuck. However, this article told me how to do it. As an aside, I didn’t like the fact that the Windows 7 installation program only told me my product key was invalid. It never said I had to install an operating system first.
TweakNow PowerPack 2009 – This is the first “tweak” product I’ve seen that supports Windows 7. It allows you to do dangerous stuff like cleaning your registry. You’ll definitely want to do a backup before trying that. However, it also has the standard access to your startup items which can be hard to find depending on how the developer decided to make the program run on startup.
