Category: Windows

  • Install Canon camera software without CD (Windows)

    Install Canon camera software without CD (Windows)

    Whenever I’m traveling with my old Canon 350D and my likewise old Windows XP laptop, I face the same problem: I don’t have the Canon software installed on my laptop, and of course I don’t have the CD with me either. Who carries such things around with them all the time? “Well, that shouldn’t be a…

  • Sound stops in Flash videos (e.g. YouTube)

    Lately I couldn’t watch any flash videos, for example on YouTube, neither on my Windows 7 computer nor on my old Windows XP laptop. Well, I could watch them – but every few seconds the sound would stop playing. I found out that several other people had this problem, too, and apparently it was caused…

  • Windows Aero: remove glass effect (diagonal lines)

    Usually I always post my tricky little discoveries right away – not least to be able to look them up here again at any time, in case I forget them. But as for this subject, I thought some time ago that I could remember it anyway and that nobody else would be interested in it…

  • Firefox & Windows Media Player: plugin not working

    It has long bothered me that I couldn’t watch any embedded Windows Media streams in Firefox. Instead of a video I always just saw a gray box and the message: “Additional plugins are required (…)” There is a plugin alright, and I’ve installed it, too. But even after installation Firefox is still complaining that the…

  • Windows 7: Video library takes ages to load?

    Libraries are one of the many (and rather superfluous) new features in Windows 7. Are there really people who spread their image, music, and video files in various locations all over the hard drive? I am personally very orderly and always keep my files centrally stored in the designated folders “My Pictures”, “My Music”, and “My…

  • OmmWriter alternatives for Windows

    OmmWriter alternatives for Windows

    It’s been almost exactly one year since I first read about OmmWriter, a so-called “distraction-free writing environment”. The point of such a program is to cover the entire screen, so you will no longer be seduced by flashing icons, pop-up messages or other enticements in your task bar, but instead devote your undivided attention to…