Good Reads
Paul Thurrott – Putting the Win in Windows 9
Ars Technica System Guide: August 2014 (Re: Budget Box, Friends don’t let friends buy AMD CPU’s.) 😉
Pressy Review: I Had No Clue Something Could Suck This Badly – “I’m going to keep this short and sweet: Pressy is the worst product I’ve ever reviewed. I generally find some redeeming quality about even the worst products, but Pressy doesn’t have one. It is, without question, complete garbage and a waste of money.”
:rotfl:
CCleaner Updated
Download it here. Release notes here.
***Pay attention during install. May attempt to install unwanted programs.
Google Chrome
Chrome has been updated to version 37.0.2062.94 for Windows, Linux, and those poor souls using Macs.
Download or update within the program.
Optionally you can install the now stable 64-bit version of Chrome. Just look for “Windows 64-bit” under the download button at the link above.
Read about it here: Chromium Blog: 64 bits of awesome: 64-bit Windows Support, now in Stable!
Site Stuff
I forgot to mention there was a fantastic contribution by an expert about the useplatformclock tweak.
The links for my music collection in the article Cataloging Your Music Collection have been updated:
Vinyl
Discogs page: http://www.discogs.com/collection?user=TweakHound
HTML page: https://www.tweakhound.com/music/CATraxx_HTML/vinyl/index.html
CD’s
https://www.tweakhound.com/music/CATraxx_HTML/index.html
MP3’s
Starts here: https://www.tweakhound.com/music/mp3/beach/index.html
Reader Email
Q – When I have two folders open next to each other in 8.1 and I select a bunch of files from the left folder and I drag / drop them to the right folder, it copies the files. Is there any way that you know of to set the default Windows action to CUT these files? I never copy. According to two forum posts I made, the answer is no, but I don’t buy it.
A –
See:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/moving-and-copying-files-by-using-the-drag-and-drop-method
And:
To use move instead of copy, press and hold SHIFT key > click, hold, and drag files.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/moving-and-copying-files-by-using-the-drag-and-drop-method
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/copy-move-files
App to change default behavior:
http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.69