Doug's Blog » Windows http://blog.dougco.com Handily dispensing information to .00000001% of the world's population Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:20:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Human Target Likes Windows 7 http://blog.dougco.com/windows/human-target-likes-windows-7/ http://blog.dougco.com/windows/human-target-likes-windows-7/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:11:22 +0000 doug http://blog.dougco.com/windows/human-target-likes-windows-7/

I was watching an episode of “Human Target” — not a bad show by the way — and I got a kick out of a scene where a guy is moving some windows around using Windows 7, and he used the “shakey” trick to hide the other windows and make the current one go big.

Usually when shows have computer stuff going on, they show a bunch of fake stuff that you can’t do on a computer, so it’s rare when you see something real, let alone a little known Windows 7 trick!

Kudos to Human Target!

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But I just upgraded to Windows 7, and now my WMP is working fine!

So now I have Microsoft’s new tagline for their advertisements they are plastering all over hell and back: “Windows 7: You can play music now!”

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