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I find Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager v6.1 that ships with Windows 7 extremely difficult to use. It’s good looking, but the usability is terrible. I can never find what I’m looking for. I installed DotNetNuke this morning and wanted to play around. For the life of me I could not find where to change the application’s App Pool. This is very straightforward in previous versions, but this seems very hidden to me in v6.1. The only way I found to do it is to click on the “Basic Settings” in the Actions panel on the far right: ...
I’ve been maintaining the list of software on my Windows 7 Paving – New Base Image Software List from some time ago. The original intent of that post was to itemize all of the applications that worked w/ the beta of Windows 7. I was using that post heavily for building out new machines. Windows 7 is now in the wild now and there are very few applications left that aren’t compatible. I’m going create a new post that simply itemizes the software I run and why. I’ll keep this current are my world changes ...
Ever hear the saying “death by a thousand tiny cuts”? The inverse might be “Love by a thousand tiny kisses”…. and that’s the best way I can describe Windows 7. There isn’t one thing that’s absolutely remarkable (except maybe the hibernate reliability), but there’s so many little things that make you smile a couple of times a day. It all adds up to a wonderful user experience. One of my favorites is the new taskbar. This thing is amazing… so easy to use. It’s simple enough for my mom to use without fear, but it’s sophisticated enough to meet...