Tonight I’m working on installing Windows 7 on my wife’s laptop. I’d originally thought that I’d have to do a completely clean install. Although I was willing to do that, I didn’t want to take the time to find all of her files and settings and back those up on an external drive so they wouldn’t be lost.
First I downloaded the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor just so I’d be aware of anything that might be important before I started. No real major issues to report. A warning about RAM size. RAM available was listed at just under 2GB, Microsoft recommends 1GB as a minimum, but more if available. The laptop is holding as much as it can.
I’m proceeding with the install and am told I’ve got to uninstall Windows Live OneCare. It’s interesting that nothing was reported about that having issues with the upgrade advisor scan. Now I’ve restarted and I’m trying again.
I’m really afraid that I’m going to absolutely love Windows 7 on my wife’s computer and then want to install it on my own business laptop. That will prove to be too much of a risk in case of unknown issues. I’d be open to looking at dual-booting to give it a try, but the stupid hard drive on my laptop is excruciatingly tiny.
I’ll follow-up with a post tomorrow on my experience with the rest of the upgrade process and what I think about Windows 7. Here’s crossing your fingers.
Image: Windows 7 Installation Screen
Wrapping up the last of the series of posts where I’ve been sharing all of the toolbars from the Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon toolbars. This last post is from probably one of the least used applications by the mainstream user community for Office products.
The Access 2007 application has the least amount of toolbars and functions than any of the other products, even though the application is perhaps the most powerful of the entire Office suite for customization and development power.
Access 2007 can work with and integrate with the other Office applications like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Outlook. Yet with all that integration and possibility, the least amount of toolbars.
Sometimes it’s still hard to find what you’re looking for in Access though, just like the other applications. Click on the image below to see all of the Access toolbars in full-size, all together in one place.
After doing these different posts, I’m starting to feel like I should be quizzing myself on what I’m seeing and see if I can remember them all later.
Not too long ago everyone on twitter was showing their support for Iran by changing their location. There were a variety of reasons I heard of for changing your location to Tehran, but I never did. I think accurately representing your location in your twitter profile is more important than people think.
As you can see from my graphic above, people set their locations to a variety of different uses. Some people are very specific and providing city, state and zip for their location. Others just provide a city. Some people put the name of a business in their location. In many cases if you use twitter from your iPhone it will grab your GPS coordinates and use that to specify your location.
Regardless of what you set your location to, realize there’s a very valid use for being accurate with that location. I will frequently look for people to follow based on their location. I want to hear from people that live in the same city as I do. It’s a way to keep tabs on what’s going on around me.
The other use is that sometimes people could be looking for knowledgeable users in specific industries or a variety of skill sets. You could be losing business opportunities by not being identified as located in the city people may be searching for some help.
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