Episode #137
I installed some software that was only XP compatible on my Vista machine using the compatability setting (i.e. I modified the executable properties). Now when I look at my documents folders I have the original documents plus a new version called my Documents. They are identical and point to the same files because if I delete a file from one it also goes from the other. Do you know what is happening here and why and can I undo this? Is it in anyway harmful? Thanks….Love the show. Jim
Jim, Toronto, ON
Vista created the My Documents alias to make the XP program happy - it’s nothing to worry about.
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Air Date: January 22, 2008
TranscriptCaller Questions
- Mack, Timmins, ON
- Richard,
- Jim, Toronto, ON
Yewell's Jewels
- ZoomItwindows
ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations.
Sean's Shinies
- Drivemocion Driving LED Emoticon
$30
If you’ve ever been driving down the street and wanted to send a message to the driver behind you — whether good or bad — you’ve had to rely on a convoluted series of hand gestures and yelling out the window…not necessarily the safest thing to do while driving. The Drivemocion is designed to send an emoticon to the driver behind you using infrared: you hang a big circular device with LEDs in the back window, and put a controller up front…simply press the happy face, the sad face, the angry face, etc. You can’t program your own, unfortunately…but that would probably cost you more than $30.
Shiny
- choose from five emoticons
- suction cups to your windows
- inexpensive
Dull
- needs line of site to work
- controller module mount not so sturdy
- no programmabilityDrivemocion
Thinkgeek.com
Kate’s Tips
- Chain of Thoughts
Chain of Thoughts, as the name says, allows you to do research on wikipedia following a chain of thoughts. All you need to do is type in a word/subject that you wish to research, and it generates a list of terms. You can either click on any of the generated terms to read it up on wikipedia or a list of related keywords and topics is generated at the same time.
Basically, it is trying to help you dig deeper into the subject domain by suggesting related terms.