Christian’s Blog

No exaggeration … this thing is a dream. I am running with 8GB of RAM and that may have something to do with it, but I am really happy to be running RC 1 on this machine. I don’t have any new or enlightening screens, just this non-stop praise to Microsoft for this OS.

I have found a couple new features I like:
1) Uninstall Windows Media Player/Media Center. First, I like Media Center and will keep that for watching TV. I abhor Windows Media Player. Its an ugly beast. As you can tell I am a Zune user and prefer that for media. It is MUCH cleaner and light weight. It should be the default OS media player. As a stand alone media player it really whips the llama’s ass.

On the Dell Mini 9 I will uninstall both components to save disk space.

To uninstall, go to add/remove windows components, scroll down, check the box and okay. easy peasy

2) alt-prntscrn now open the Snipping Tool by default. So if you want a screen shot you can use the native MS screen shot tool (which is very effective – I use it at work daily). In the days of yore, alt-prntscrn would only caputre the desktop to the clipboard, then you would have to paste.

I’ll get some screens up here soon showing both features.