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: Apr 28th, 2001 |
| Category |
: Operating System |
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: Microsoft |
| Author |
: Peter Novotny |
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This was rather interesting, when I choose optimize, it gave me a choice whether I wanted to have a 640x480 or 800x600 or 1280x768 picture.
A very interesting new feature built into every Windows XP (home or professional), it is supposed to like Terminal Services for Windows NT. It will allow support personnel to remotely connect to your machine and make changes/fix stuff. I will have to investigate this further, and will report on this later. |
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Microsoft claims "out of the box compatibility for all your applications". Looks like this will be achieved by letting your application be run in "Compatibility Mode". This dialog box show up after right clicking on a shortcut and choosing properties. Another one of those things that I will have to look into and report on later.
Very interesting, Windows supports 7.1 channel speaker system - NICE! |
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Oh, look at those nice two color volume sliders!
I noticed a new tab when looking at the Date and Time properties - the Internet Time - very cool, Windows lets you synch your clock with one of the time servers! |
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There a couple of other interesting things that I have come across while using Whistler. First, when customizing Task Bar, I have come across an option which allows to choose which icons are hidden from the tray. Another is the Desktop Cleanup Wizard. After leaving my computer on overnight, I had this dialog box opened on the desktop "Welcome to the Desktop Cleanup wizard", turns out that this will move all of your unused icons on the desktop to a Unused Desktop Icons folder. This could be useful for people who have tons of icons of the desktop and do not know how to get rid of them or are
afraid to.
One big problem was copying files across the network. It would almost halt the whole machine. The OS became very unresponsive, I had to wait until the network transfer was finished.
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