After installing and see the new features of Windows 7 it is time to customise your computer. Watch the video and see how to get the best out of your new Windows 7 installation

Windows 7 Explained! Chapter 3: Personalise Windows 7

Now Windows 7 will be the widely addopted version of Windows I found a great serie of video's that will help you to perform several tasks.

Windows 7 explained Chapter 1 Installation

This movie shows you how to Install Windows 7.

Sigh... After a long week (and a half) of bug tracking I'm getting closer to see three serious [for my customer at least, which is all that matters] problems fixed (and released).

Hence the sigh of relief at the beginning.

Working on bug fixes with development is always very interesting and quite demanding. First it requires some commitment (I received and tested 6 versions of a dll, dissected and documented the test results and log files at a rate of one a day ~ sending feedback in the evening or at night to ensure I would receive a new dll with changes implemented the very next day). Then it requires patience, and sometimes a good dose on strong will (call me stubborn if you may ;). Patience because some issues are really good at hiding themselves, and you need to give them a real go to nail them down. Stubbornness because there's no let-go. The bug is there, and must be rooted out.

So we solved a thread synchronization problem on the Task Synch...

 For the last many months, we've been looking into reports of Dell Optiplex 755 computers spontaneously rebooting. The reboots are random, and we've never found a way to force the behavior on demand. In parallel we've had another issue of the 755s hanging on login with a specific image. The image is hardware independent, and only hangs (although not reproducibly) on the 755s.

Because of the reproducibility issue, its been a long road to troubleshoot. We have a test network, and the problems have not manifested there. What we've found is,

• For the computer hangs on login we've discovered the problem vanishes if the Intel disk controller is configured from AHCI to 'Legacy IDE'
• If we disconnect the DVD drive with the controller in AHCI mode the issue vanishes

So, degrading the controller to 'Legacy IDE' seemed to be good resolution/workaround at least for the hanging issue, so we were going to proceed by...