windows7
4870×2 overheating, BFBC2 crash, PC reboots, PC freeze
Apr 21st
I have been having a nightmare with my PC lately. This rig is 18 months old with the following spec:
Intel q9550 2.8 @ 3.4ghz
Asus Rampage Forumula x48 mobo
8 gig corsair DDR2 Ram
Power Color 4870×2
In a antec gaming 900 case with enough fans to power a hover craft.
All was well in the world of my baby for the 1st 18 months of life till I started to place Battlefield Bad Company 2. For the 1st time it crashed in a game! It has never done this before. I am running Windows 7 x 64 and this is a dream system. Even after 18 months it feels as good as the day we bought it despite 2 changes in OS and a constant stream of experimental beta apps. Windows 7 is awesome :)
And now.. it crashes!! it even turns the monitor off when it feels like it! Like many people I blamed BFBC2.. it does have a few bugs after all. However, things just got worse and even in 2d use things were starting to fall apart.
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Enable concurrent remote desktop connections in windows 7
Jan 11th
We have 1 main pc in our house which holds all the data and applications. A number of older laptops and desktops then use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to the main pc. The problem of course is that windows xp, vista and 7 have only allowed 1 user to be connected to a pc at once. This sucks and in light of Linux competition should have been fixed by now. To get this sort of functionality in windows you need to use a server edition.
However, this can be patched to allow as many people as you like to connect to different user account on the same PC at the same time… hence Concurrent RDP.
To achieve this download this file which will work with Windows 7 Professional.
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Photostory 3 and Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7
Nov 25th
If you have just discovered that these two applications are no longer working or availabe in the Windows 7 world DONT PANIC. These tools are very important in the education arena as they are great concept developers for helping people to move on to more powerful software. Photostory is an educators dream bit of software and Windows movie maker is a great intro to track based editing and can also be used for animation. The new Windows Essential Movie maker is a dumbed down bit of rubbish.
With the advent of Windows 7 the Vista download of Photostory no longer works.. the solution? Look for the XP version.
or click here
The same trick works for Movie Maker as the 2.1 version for XP is still available…
UPDATE
As you can see from the comments there appears to be some issues around this and some people are reporting problems. After some playing with different setups I think that this trick WORKS with Windows 7 x64 but does NOT WORK with x32 bit versions of Windows 7. If anyone can confirm or deny this let me know.
An alternative installation of Photostory involved the use of XP mode and again this does work but you need to at least have Windows 7 Professional or above.
UPDATE 2
It looks like the OS check has now been dropped on the latest version I down loaded.
