I’ve spent the past 3 days trying to install Adobe CS4 Web Premium on my home Windows XP computer (as the second install of my license at work). I kept getting an error before anything would install telling me something like “the following programs failed to install” (I forget the exact wording). Upon checking the… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Windows
Access frequently used stuff without minimizing
Ever grow tired of minimizing whatever you are working on in order to get to a frequently used directory or file? I recently submitted this screencast as a contest entry on lifehacker as a way to solve this annoyance. Which, by the way, won me a signed copy of Lifehacker the book.
Simple Windows Reminder
I’ve always wanted to set up a little reminder to tell me to go home at the end of the day. Today I finally built one for myself using a pretty simple technique and without installing any additional software. Although, it does require turning on the Windows Messenger service, so if you aren’t behind a… Read more »
USB Autorun
This solution doesn’t create an actuall Autorun, but it does allow you to specify an app you want to run when double clicked from My Computer using the AUTORUN.INF First I turned off all XP Autorun for my USB drive by right clicking the drive in My Computer folder, selecting the Autorun tab, then selecting… Read more »