A year ago I wrote a post called Windows 7 Search Sucks! and it has without question, been the most popular post I have ever written. The reason for this should be obvious to anyone that has tried to use this feature of Windows 7.  I had hoped that the problems with it were due [...] Read more »

My previous post was about un-installing Internet Explorer 8 and after a little more digging it looks like IE is no the only application getting the un-install option.  The Windows Engineering blog today has posted additional details about what other applications can be removed in the upcoming Windows 7 Release Candidate: Windows Media Player Windows [...] Read more »

Windows 7 has a cool new search feature called Connectr’s which allows you to essentially search Internet based locations from your file browser.  I originally wrote about it after Long Zheng made a connectr for Flickr and posted it on his site. Today there is a new Connectr available for Twitter made by Chakkaradeep at [...] Read more »

Windows Defender is one of those components people expect to be in the background working and protecting their Vista/Windows 7 machine. But does protecting the system mean it should be excluded from the Start menu? Read more »

In a recent post I ranted a little bit about how much I hate the new Search function in Windows 7. Tonight however over at Download Squad they have a post about a new feature of the search function called “Connectr”. Basically after you download a Connectr and install it then you can search the [...] Read more »