The Register on MSN

Developer puts Windows 7 on a crash diet, drops it to down to 69 MB

Trim down for obsolete operating system leaves it booting, but not much else Stripping Windows to the bare essentials is a ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Windows insider creates Windows 7 install measuring just 69MB — system boots, but has been pruned so severely ‘virtually nothing can run’ for now

A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. However, it isn't a very ...
Ars Technica

Any way to prevent Windows dialog from popping up when it wants to kill some app?

I'm not a Windows expert, but I'm helping to research this issue for our overworked IT staff. Here's our setup (it is what it is): We have several software developers that do their development on an ...
Ars Technica

Excel 2000 and the Common Dialog Control

This seems to be a fairly "common" topic, but other than vague reference to directly accessing the API, I haven't found a way to do this. <BR><BR>I want to create a "browse" button in Excel 2000 that ...
CNET

Four hard-to-find fixes for common Windows annoyances

Switch active windows by hovering your mouse, change the duration of notification pop-ups, disable unnecessary animations, and underline menu keyboard shortcuts. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...
The Verge

Microsoft forgot to update this Windows feature for 30 years

There’s lots of old UI in Windows, but some of it was only supposed to be temporary. There’s lots of old UI in Windows, but some of it was only supposed to be temporary. is a senior editor and author ...