Category: Windows 7

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Error 8007051a on Windows update

    I recently tried to download and install a few Windows 7 updates, but the auto-updater kept aborting the process with the error number “8007051a”. There was no particularly descriptive error message. At first I thought that it was just some server that could not be reached. But when it still didn’t work after days, I began…

  • “Atlantis: The Lost Tales” on Windows 7

    We’re writing the year 1997. Small Ginchen is about fifteen years old, when “Cryo Interactive” release the first game of the “Atlantis” series. We had a PlayStation 1, and someone gave us a few games for it – including “Atlantis”. It wasn’t particularly comfortable to play an adventure game with the control pad, but I…