Bnpositive Communication » Computers & Technology http://www.bnpositive.com Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:15:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Elephant Forgot! – Cleared the Windows 7 Start Menu http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/the-elephant-forgot-cleared-the-windows-7-start-menu/ http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/the-elephant-forgot-cleared-the-windows-7-start-menu/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:49:00 +0000 bnpositive http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/the-elephant-forgot-cleared-the-windows-7-start-menu/ As a follow-up to my previous post, Elephant Like Memory of Windows 7 Start Menu, about trying to get my computer to forget everything that was pinned to my Start Menu and let me start over; I’ve got an update. I was just messing around with my Start Menu again and accidentally opened the location of where all the shortcuts were stored for the Start Menu.

The shortcut are located in this directory path:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu

I’m not sure why I couldn’t find that before but I was able to find it this time and deleted all the shortcuts. In addition, I wanted to try and follow-up with some of the other websites I’d found earlier when troubleshooting my problem. I couldn’t find the exact ones I’d used previously, but these two websites provided the similar information I’d read earlier when trying to troubleshoot the issue.

Hopefully this information will help someone else out in the future. Don’t let this little issue sour your opinion of Windows 7. There is a fix and the rest of my experience has been pretty much outstanding.

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]]> http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/the-elephant-forgot-cleared-the-windows-7-start-menu/feed/ 0 Elephant Like Memory of Windows 7 Start Menu http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/elephant-like-memory-of-windows-7-start-menu/ http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/elephant-like-memory-of-windows-7-start-menu/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:49:05 +0000 bnpositive http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/elephant-like-memory-of-windows-7-start-menu/ I’m absolutely loving my experience since installing Windows 7 Ultimate on the new laptop I just migrated over to from my 4-yr old laptop. I really should work on a series of posts that talk about my favorite features, but first I really want to figure out the answer to one little snag I’ve run into.

windows-7-pin-to-start-menu As you can see from the Snagit of my current Start Menu in Windows 7 Ultimate, I have a little issue with what appears to be multiple copies of the same shortcut in my list.

Somehow during the transition and migration of all of my files into my new system, Windows 7 Ultimate has remembered a previous setting of my Start Menu and WILL NOT forget it no matter how hard I try and what steps I take to try and refresh/remove the items.

I’ve edited the Windows 7 Ultimate registry multiple times using the regedit functions that store these values and nothing seems to work. My Start Menu can be completely empty, but as soon as I right-click on a shortcut and select “Pin to Start Menu” the shortcut name gets populated and written with the numeric identifier for there being multiple shortcuts to the same program that already exist.

If anyone can provide me some instructions that will completely wipe this memory and listing clean so that I can start again, that would be wonderful.

Until then, I’ll try and figure out another way to make this wonderful new elephant forget something and start fresh.

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]]> http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/elephant-like-memory-of-windows-7-start-menu/feed/ 1 Have You Seen the New $100 Bill http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/have-you-seen-the-new-100-bill/ http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/have-you-seen-the-new-100-bill/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:06:33 +0000 bnpositive http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/have-you-seen-the-new-100-bill/ With the current economy, I’m not sure how many of us will get to see one of these in real-life when it’s released by the US Treasury in 2011. There’s a new C-note coming out of the presses and it’s got a load of new security features. Here’s a video preview of what you can expect.

Some people love it and some people hate it. I think it’s cool, just wonder how much it costs to produce bills with this kind of technology. Is it really worth the investment?

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]]> http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/have-you-seen-the-new-100-bill/feed/ 0 Fred Pryor Seminars Please Let Me Unsubscribe http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/fred-pryor-seminars-please-let-me-unsubscribe/ http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/fred-pryor-seminars-please-let-me-unsubscribe/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:19:39 +0000 bnpositive http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/fred-pryor-seminars-please-let-me-unsubscribe/ I’ve been working lately on trying to clean-up my Inbox and get rid of stuff I receive via email that I never really end up reading or paying attention to on a regular basis. The latest target for removal have been the emails I receive from Fred Pryor Seminars.

I go to the bottom of the email and click on the automated unsubscribe link that’s provided. When you click on the link you see the following webpage.

fred-pryor-unsubscribe 

You enter your email address and click on the button that’s clearly labeled "Yes, remove me!" They even put an exclamation point in there to make sure you get the message right? Not so much.

Here’s the next screen you see.

fred-pryor-not-removed

Yep, you read that right. Now I have NOT been removed from their email list. I did notice that the link for removal was to a http://busenetwork.net address, perhaps they left an "a" off that first part of the URL. It should have been http://abusenetwork.net

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]]> http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/fred-pryor-seminars-please-let-me-unsubscribe/feed/ 3 Make a Slideshow Movie with Picasa 3 http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/make-a-slideshow-movie-with-picasa-3/ http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/make-a-slideshow-movie-with-picasa-3/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:45:28 +0000 bnpositive http://www.bnpositive.com/blog/make-a-slideshow-movie-with-picasa-3/ Earlier this week I went to a grand opening reception for The Marriott Place hotel complex in downtown Indianapolis. As part of the blog posts I wrote about the event (for I Choose Indy and Positively Indy), there were photos I wanted to share that really showcased the new and contemporary design of the various guest rooms at the properties.

I’ve been using Picasa 3 for awhile now, but took the time to play around with the movie creation feature available in the software product now. The movie feature allows you to create a slideshow of a collection of images with audio track, caption display and transitions as needed.

Encoding and uploading the video to YouTube is as simple as entering your login information, editing the details about the video and sending it to their servers right from within Picasa.

Below is the video I created in just a couple of minutes.

A couple of things to keep in my that I learned from this quick project:

  • Provide more time between each transition for the photo to be seen
  • The compression of the video to size really pixilated the images during transitions, perhaps use another transition besides dissolve

For the post I wrote on my Positively Indy site, I ended up using Picasa Web Albums to share the photos, which also provides an embeddable slideshow feature.

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