On Thursday, I launched a competition, which would last 77 hours. The prize is Windows 7 Ultimate and the 77 hours have elapsed.
A collection of desktop wallpapers, chosen by Stu, for Windows, OS X, and Linux. If you have wallpapers you’ve made yourself or if you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments or contact me.
The default backgrounds in Windows 7 are very pleasing to look at. However, many of you like to change the login screen. There are plenty of programs out there that do the job well. This one is in a league of it’s own. Logon Screen Rotator (2.1.0.2) is a tiny freeware program that can not only change your login screen, it can use multliple images or folders of images to do it and rotate them. An innovative touch to this program is it’s ability to change at a user specified time.
No installation is required for this to work. Just extract the application and run it.
Windows Guides Reader, Keith Johnson, recently downloaded IOBIT Security 360 after I reviewed it earlier this month. Keith liked it so much, he wrote the following review:
Recently, Rich Robinson, MVP and Webmaster of Minty White Dot Com, sent out a most useful piece of information in his website RSS feed. Specifically, Rich informed readers like myself of a utility program called IObit Security 360. Now, I have seen quite a few computer care programs out there, but this program is really cool. What I like most about it is the extremely simple and intuitive user interface. Once you download and install the program and get it running, you will notice four basic buttons on the left pane of the utility: Overview, Scan, Protection and Tools.
The TaskSwitch Powertoy replaces the standard Alt-tab view in Windows XP. See below for screenshots.
Alt-tab in XP Before
Alt-tab in XP After
Download TaskSwitch Powertoy
The Windows Basics section is now available. This section is designed to help beginners grasp the fundamentals of Windows. As part of this section, I’ve started to build a glossary; I am looking for volunteers (email link) to help me populate this glossary to help new users.
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Windows Talk is giving away two copies of Vipre Antivirus.
Winners will be chosen on Wednesday September 23rd at approximately 8:00 PM Atlantic Standard Time (GMT –3).
Find out more here: Vipre Antivirus Giveaway.
10. Speed Up Media Browser Using USB Flash Drive
I have quite a large movie collection, and find that MB can take a while to load all of the DVD covers & backdrops for the entire library.
Using a USB Flash Drive should eliminate this problem as they’re generally a lot quicker than your hard drive, anything that’s good enough for ‘ReadyBoost’ should suffice for this. You should see a big improvement immediately.
Update: The winner is posted here.
Side note: The winner will receive a boxed version of Windows 7, ordered from Amazon and not just a license key.
Last week, I attempted to give away Windows 7 Home Premium, but the winner has not come forward to claim their prize. I’ve tried, multiple times, to contact them and I’ve not heard back.
The good news is I still want to give Windows 7 away to a reader; this is what I’ve decided to do:
- I could have randomly chosen another winner; however, I didn’t expect an unclaimed prize and adding a new rule to the old competition seemed wrong.
- I’ve decided to bump the prize up to Windows 7 Ultimate!
- The competition will run for 77 hours and end on Sunday, September 20, 2009 @ 5 P.M. EST.
What Do I Win?
Windows 7 Ultimate (Retail: $319.99)
If you are making a PowerPoint presentation, poster, graphic, or anything that requires typography, you may find some of these fonts useful. There many free fonts out there but it is often hard to find good ones as there is so much choice and so many fonts are not very high quality. In these collections, I attempt to find the best free fonts out there and provide direct download links to them so you can start using them straight away. If you are unsure of how to install a font, learn here.
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