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It really sucked to realize that the latest Windows Live Messenger 2009 did not have Sharing Folders. Microsoft offers SkyDrive, however this, as far as I know, does not sync files between contacts. It does not have Drag & Drop either.

Okay, so far you’ve studied the corresponding commands in Excel 2007 for the File menu , Edit menu and View menu . And you think … hmm … I get this new user interface. After all, most of the commands in each menu were ported into one area. For example the commands in the File menu are found mostly in the Office button. Likewise with the Edit menu. Most of the commands are in the Home tab. And ditto with the View menu commands. You therefore expect to find most of the Insert menu commands in the Insert tab. Well … yes and no. Of the 24 commands in the Insert menu, 4 are now found in the Home tab, 10 in the Insert tab, 6 in the Formula tab, 2 in the Review tab, one in the Page Layout tab and 1 didn’t make it. What is clear is that users who are already familiar with the menu and toolbars will have to relearn the user interface.   Excel 2003 Commands Equivalent Excel 2007 Commands Cells Home tab > Cells group > Insert button > Insert Cells Rows Home tab > Cells group...

After almost 9 months , I thought of giving another shot at MediaMonkey. This time I made sure not to enable auto organization of music files until I was very sure it would auto organize identical to iTunes. For this to happen I had to edit the ini file. I started a new thread in MediaMonkey forums to get file naming happening similar to iTunes. http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34788 I came out with bad news. I wasn't able to retrieve the DiscCount of a track so I wouldn't be able to set auto organize rules identical to iTunes. It is bad because this means I have to completely give up on one player. If I choose MediaMonkey then I have to uninstall iTunes because it wouldn't find the tracks that MediaMonkey renamed. If I choose iTunes, then I have to disable the auto organize function in MediaMonkey. What good is it just to have a player? I can do better with foobar2000. There were performance issues as well.   I did the following tweaks to get i...

The Windows 7 build 7000 setup has been a real bastard. It is not assigning a drive letter to BACKUP HDD for some odd reason. It detects it but it doesn’t assign a drive letter. This makes DOCS HDD to take up the drive letter F: which renders the Autounattend.xml useless. I have no idea why it does that. I am running Windows 7 setup on top of Windows XP now. That way I have heard the drive letters stay intact.

Under Windows 7 or Windows Vista: S: SERVER M: MUSIC B: BACKUP C: WINDOWS G: DOCS T: DUMP Under Windows XP: S: SERVER M: MUSIC C: BACKUP D: WINDOWS G: DOCS T: DUMP

I removed Windows 7 from the Laptop for trying Windows Vista x64 so I didn’t have Windows 7 installed anywhere. I am going to install Windows 7 build 6801 on the Desktop while waiting for the public beta. Reordered the HDD boot sequence again. ST3500 - WINDOWS/DOCS WD7500JB - BACKUP ST5750 - SERVER WD3000JB – MUSIC The only difference from last time is that I swapped BACKUP and WINDOWS/DOCS. I probably shouldn’t have done that because I realized it doesn’t make any difference to how Windows 7 setup lists the HDDs. It does PATA0 = SERVER PATA1 = MUSIC SATA0 = BACKUP SATA1 = WINDOWS/DOCS no matter what your HDD boot order is. So I have Windows XP SP3 installed in BACKUP. You have to understand the drive letter mess-up Windows Vista or 7 does when you install Windows, especially when you are using Autounattend.xml to relocate your Users folder. Because Windows 7 setup follows the PATA and SATA sequence I listed above, the setup would initially show you that it is going to ...

I removed Windows 7 from the Laptop for trying Windows Vista x64 so I didn’t have Windows 7 installed anywhere. I am going to install Windows 7 build 6801 on the Desktop while waiting for the public beta.   Reordered the HDD boot sequence again. ST3500 - WINDOWS/DOCS WD7500JB - BACKUP ST5750 - SERVER WD3000JB – MUSIC   The only difference from last time is that I swapped BACKUP and WINDOWS/DOCS. I probably shouldn’t have done that because I realized it doesn’t make any difference to how Windows 7 setup lists the HDDs. It does PATA0 = SERVER PATA1 = MUSIC SATA0 = BACKUP SATA1 = WINDOWS/DOCS no matter what your HDD boot order is.   So I have Windows XP SP3 installed in BACKUP.   You have to understand the drive letter mess-up Windows Vista or 7 does when you install Windows, especially when you are using Autounattend.xml to relocate your Users folder.   Because Windows 7 setup follows the PATA and SATA s...

After almost 9 months , I thought of giving another shot at MediaMonkey. This time I made sure not to enable auto organization of music files until I was very sure it would auto organize identical to iTunes. For this to happen I had to edit the ini file. I started a new thread in MediaMonkey forums to get file naming happening similar to iTunes. http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34788 I came out with bad news. I wasn't able to retrieve the DiscCount of a track so I wouldn't be able to set auto organize rules identical to iTunes. It is bad because this means I have to completely give up on one player. If I choose MediaMonkey then I have to uninstall iTunes because it wouldn't find the tracks that MediaMonkey renamed. If I choose iTunes, then I have to disable the auto organize function in MediaMonkey. What good is it just to have a player? I can do better with foobar2000. There were performance issues as well.   I did the following tweaks ...