If security isn’t a concern for you, you may decide to set your Windows 7 system to log into your account automatically each time you boot. In previous versions of Windows you had to start tweaking the registry or use a program such as TweakUI to do this for you. In Windows 7, a GUI [...]
For file sharing purposes I have always had at least one hidden account on my computer. Currently I have one that I use to connect my Linux box to my Windows 7 box, and a second for allowing friends to copy MP3s and Movies off my drive when I go to lan parties. Unfortunately, when [...]
One of the things I found annoying with Gnome is that any time I access one of my Fat32/NTFS partitions it ends up placing an icon on the desktop until I reboot. Since I do most of my programming in a transparent shell I like to keep my desktop clean. After doing a bit of [...]
