Windows 7 – First Impressions

So a few days ago the Windows 7 beta went public. If you haven’t gone and dowloaded your copy I suggest you do it now even I’d you are not planning to install it right away. From what I hear there may be a limit to the number of keys microsoft is planning to give out.

I’ve installed it on both my laptop as a fresh install and on my media center of as an upgrade to vista ultimate. And at first glance it looks like miceosoft could box and ship it how it is, and they probably could. I am sure that a lot if the code is taken from vista and simply refined.

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Remove a stuck print job in Windows

I have often recived a call, or gone out to a site where there is a print job stuck in the print que on the server that is holing up everything. You can try to cancel the job at the printer, or at the server. You’ve tried to restart the server and restart the printer but the print job just sits there staring at you the whole time. While not quite as bad as upsetting as the famed “PC LOAD LETTER” error it can still make you want to chuck your printer and/or computer off the roof.

So how do you purge the vexing print que? Its actually easier than you might think. It only takes three lines typed in to your command prompt (you can do it through the Windows GUI too, but its easier this way).

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Take 10

I always find it amazing how relaxing and exciting a good thunderstorm can be. My day up until I got home was hell. But once I got home, took a shower and took 10 min to enjoy the weather I feel like the rest of the day has just been washed away.

If you have no idea of the feeling I’m talking about, I am truly sorry, because it is what makes the world go ’round at times for me.

So I’m going to sit here and enjoy some soft music with the windows open listening more to the rain than the music. With my cup of cappuccino and a desert baking in the oven.

Moments like these are too short.