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By: William Cousins

William Cousins — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:29:05 +0000

Have Inside Out XP and now Inside Out 7. Question, Robocopy and Robocopy GUI, have not been able to locate Robo GUI. Looked at Robocopy and know I will need GUI. Can it be found at “?”

By: Mahmood

Mahmood — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:20:58 +0000

I’m from Iraq, I read w7io book and found it as a fantastic book.
thanks for all the arcane secrets of w7!

By: Peter Grantham

Peter Grantham — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:13:06 +0000

Have all your books and love them.
Found a “flaw” in Windows 7 Inside Out

Have Win 7 Home premium with Windows Media Player V.12.0.7600.16667

Manually adding album art. On page 436 it says right-click the generic album album cover image on the Library tab, and click Paste Album Art.

Didn’t work for me but right-clicking the actual album entry in the Library got me a result

By: Chino

Chino — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:26:01 +0000

Answer to Apollyon’s comment:

Simplest way is to create an entry on your Favorites. However, to accomplish exactly what you want, do this:

- Go to the webpage you want to have the icon on your desktop.
- Make sure that you can see an open area of your desktop. Resize the browser window if necessary.
- Click and drag the small icon (usually the website logo) on the left of the address you typed or followed to the free area of your desktop.
- Done.

This will create a URL shortcut on your desktop for the web site you just visited.

By: Chino

Chino — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:01:35 +0000

I found a workaround for the “issue” describe on page 172 troubleshooting box. No need to mess around with access control entries. My workaround is this:

- Create the shortcut on your desktop.
- Move this newly created shortcut to %programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (copy and paste that path to your address bar in Windows explorer, drag and drop the shortcut).
- Windows will display a box telling you that you need to provide administrator permission to move the folder, click Continue.
- Done.

I found this useful on an environment where you don’t want restricted users to delete entries on the startup folder. Of course, You can always create an entry in the Run key at the registry to accomplish the same.

By: Bill Ahlstrom

Bill Ahlstrom — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:30:22 +0000

Excellent Book. I learned many useful hints and feel this is a must have to get the most out of windows 7.

One small error I would like to pass on … The following Visual Basic Script to Customize System Restore intervals on page 398 of “Windows 7 Inside Out” does not work.

Set oRP = getobject(“winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore”)
newRestore = oRP.createrestorepoint (“Created by my scheduled task”, 0, 100)

I found script that will work at this link:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/494-system-restore-point-shortcut.html

The script I used follows:

If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
Set objShell = CreateObject(“Shell.Application”)
objShell.ShellExecute “wscript.exe”, Chr(34) & WScript.ScriptFullName & Chr(34) & ” Run”, , “runas”, 1
Else
GetObject(“winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore”).CreateRestorePoint “Instant Restore Point”, 0, 100
End If

Hope this will help someone else.

By: w7io-admin

w7io-admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:52:18 +0000

In Control Panel, click Appearance and Personalization, then, under Folder Options, click “Specify single- or double-click to open.”

By: Bob Beck

Bob Beck — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:15:40 +0000

Where in Windows 7 can I change the number of clicks on my mouse to open a program? In XP I could go to Folder Options and change from 2 clicks to 1 click. Has that been eliminated in W7?

By: Brian Barwick

Brian Barwick — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:15:35 +0000

…. What an excellent book! I have bought other so called reference books on eairler versions of Windows, they were OK, but, covered extremely basic ground, in my opinion, wasting a lot of valuable space!

With ‘Windows 7 inside out’ it assumes basic knowledge, so, gets straight to the point(s) although, a lot of the workj will have already been discovered through trial and error, it still has a mountain of extremely useful information.

Whilst pretty expensive (£22 in UK) it was well worth it, there are much cheaper books available, but, I’m pretty certain, they will not as comprehensive as this one.

The deciding factor for me in particular was, that it was written by 3 experts, and published by Microsoft, that’s alost amounts to a quality guarantee!

Thank you for an excellent book, I’m absorbing it in tiny chunks, thatwas I remember, rather than reading several chapters, then forgetting important data!

Keep up the good work ………………..

By: Marrea

Marrea — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:06:39 +0000

Great book. But I would love to know how to dual-boot Windows 7 (installed on first hard drive) and Ubuntu 10.04 Linux (installed on second hard drive via BCD. Is it in fact possible for BCD to handle dual drive/dual booting of Windows and Linux?

I have got round the situation by simply using my BIOS’s startup “choice of which drive you want to boot” feature and selecting the second hard drive from that, but I can’t believe it is not possible for BCD to carry out this task. There needs to be far, far more documentation about this new Windows bootloader. I’m not criticising your book specifically – I mean generally.