Posts Tagged ‘Windows’

Windows Media player streaming problem

In: Software|Tube|Windows

28 Nov 2009

Since some days the ORF (the Austrian national public service broadcaster) started his video on demand site http://tvthek.orf.at/. I found it quite nice but to make use of it I had to install the Windows Media Player Firefox plugin otherwise it did only work in the Internet Explorer. Another problem my grandma had with it [...]

Installing BlackBerry Desktop Manager under Windows 7

In: Blackberry|Downloads|Software|Windows

11 Nov 2009

Yesterday a friend of mine told me that he received an error message while trying to install the BlackBerry Desktop Manager 5.0.1 under Windows 7 64 Bit. I told him that the Desktop Manager installed and runs correctly on my system (which is the same) so we tried to find out what caused his problem. [...]

Windows 7 Ultimate backup failed

In: Software|Tools|Windows

27 Oct 2009

I was happy the first time I used the built in backup feature of Windows 7 RC1. It was a very easy tool that allowed me to backup my whole system (or just selected partitions) to another external disk or a network share. Today I tried to backup my current Windows 7 installation before updating [...]

iTunes 9.0.1 and Windows 7

In: Uncategorized

29 Sep 2009

Today I noticed that the new iTunes version 9.0.1.8 shows three small media control buttons in the preview window of the Windows 7 task bar. That is a nice feature because I to not have to aim at the small icon in the notification area for pause/play/forward/previous:

BitDefender failed me (again)

In: Security|Software|Windows

16 Sep 2009

Today I had problems running my newly installed cygwin 1.7 beta and minTTY after updating BitDefender. It only took me some minutes to find out that BitDefender was the cause of the problem (much faster than the last time). After fidling around with some settings and trying some workarounds from various web resources I decided [...]

Improving cygwin console

In: Software|Tools|Windows

9 Sep 2009

I am using cygwin for a long time now. It is one of the first tools I install on the Windows systems I am working on. The bad thing about cygwin is that it uses the Windows Command/Console to run the bash. Selecting text, copy and paste are really hard to do inside the Windows [...]

git under Windows 7

In: Software|Windows

24 Aug 2009

There are already some posts out there discussing this issue which git in cygwin has under Windows Vista. It will be no surprise if I tell you that the same problem still exists under Windows 7. Microsofts UAC looks for executables with “install”, “update” or “setup” in their name and requires user account elevation to [...]

Skype I/O Error

In: Software|Windows

21 Apr 2009

Since I installed the Skype 4 Beta last year I occasionally got the an I/O Error when starting Skype. Sometimes rebooting helped but within the last weeks the error occurred more frequently and I wanted to find out what causes the problem. I found out that there is even a FAQ entry for that problem [...]

Again: I love Launchy

In: Software|Tools|Windows

8 Feb 2008

Nearly a year ago I stumbled upon a post on lifehacker about Launchy. I downloaded, installed and used the tool – and I had to blog about it. Now for everybody who does not know it until know: I love Launchy! It is THE tool that improved my whole using-a-PC-experience to most in the last [...]


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