DISCLAIMER: What I’m about to describe is tortuous and potentially useless but I use it and I even give an easier alternative so there 
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Google tend to get most of the buzz (no pun intended) around the “Cloud” and Microsoft tend to be seen as a company who are being dragged kicking and screaming in that direction. As a Gmail user I am as guilty as anyone of this, indeed I even commit the ultimate indignity to Microsoft by POPing my Hotmail into Gmail.
However I have had Hotmail for much longer than Gmail and have seen it go through many changes in terms of positioning. What I hadn’t until recently realised is that behind the revamping to MSN and then to Live, Microsoft have actually added something pretty good. I’m talking about 25Gb of free storage in SkyDrive. I will assume from this point onward that you already have a Windows Live ID via Hotmail, MSN or Live and therefore access to SkyDrive! Continue reading Map A SkyDrive Folder In Windows via Office 2010
I’m a big fan of Windows 7, it has finally moved me from XP on my work machines. However I still haven’t quite got the locations for the settings stuck in the old memory and find myself hunting for them every now and then. I was going to blog about a piece of software called Windows [...]
I’ve recently acquired a Netbook (Asus EeePC 1005HA to be precise) and in common with many such devices it came preloaded with XP. Now up until 6 months ago I’d probably have left it at that but having used Windows 7 for those last months I really didn’t want to go back. So I decided to look at installing Windows 7. Now as many people have pointed out, there is no direct upgrade from XP to 7 so the install has to be a “clean” one. The issue with the Netbook of course being that there is no optical drive to install from.
The way around this is to boot from USB and take it from there. Now at this stage I will issue YMMV in extra tall letters because my experience of trying to get USB thumb drives booting is a little random to say the least. There are a whole range of techniques out there and some will work with one brand of USB and not another. The information below I know works with several brands and capacities as I’ve used it to create bootable USBs for a number of projects but if it doesn’t work, try a different USB drive. I’ve found Kingston DataTravelers pretty good, 1Gb for bootable CD type apps and 4Gb for DVD which is what I used for this. Continue reading Installing Windows 7 on a Netbook Using USB
