Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
By now you are probably aware of UAC (User Account Control) that came along when Vista was released. And you probably know that to do anything like copy files to Windows\System32 or Program Files or do other administrative stuff you need to be running as Admin, or you’ll get the UAC prompt come up asking […]
I’ve just downloaded Windows version usage data from StatCounter and charted it in Excel, adding polynomial trend lines. Here are the results: If this is right Windows 7 usage will eclipse that of XP by the end of this year. But I’m no statistician so don’t hold me to that. Either way, I understand that […]
So, unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock you’ll probably be aware that today is the day that Windows Vista gets it’s official upgrade in the form of Windows 7. We got our hands on a beta copy as soon as it became available to MSDN subscribers and back in January I was able to […]
Back in January we were able to download the Windows 7 beta and I reported that Macro Scheduler 11 is fully compatible with Windows 7. Yesterday the final RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version was made available to MSDN subscribers and so today I upgraded my Vista desktop to Windows 7. I am pleased to report […]
I’m no fish expert, so it meant nothing to me when I saw the pretty looking fish on the Windows 7 beta wallpaper. Then I saw this CNET report. Turns out it’s a Siamese fighting fish also known as a Betta fish, pronounced “beta”. Presumably, therefore, it won’t be the default wallpaper in the final release? […]
Tim Sneath has a handy post entitled “The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets“. If you’re testing out Windows 7 you should find it useful.
Whenever Microsoft release a new operating system I’m always a little anxious to make sure we test Macro Scheduler on it as soon as possible and find out what, if anything, needs to be changed. I’ve been following news about Windows 7 for a while now and, reading that it was built on the same […]