I'm reminded of these because my Toshiba M4 died last week so I have to put up with an M200 while the M4 is waiting on parts (bad time of year for a computer failure).
Anyway, I imaged the M200 with Vista + everything possible from an ADS server (BDD is awesome if you have not seen it before) so I was back to a default configuration without my usual customizations.
The first thing I normally do is disable tabs in IE to avoid what just happened to me:
- Some web sites crash IE7 – this means I lose all the pages I have open for reference on what I'm currently working on and worse, lose any downloads in progress.
- The other thing I hate is that when I Alt-Tab, I only see the current tab content in each IE instance. I can hear someone say "but you only need one instance", two words – Trusted Sites. These open a new instance.
I just can't get into the habit of Ctrl-Tab when I'm in IE and Alt-Tab for everything else. The MDI interface was dropped by Word years ago and the rollup of multiple application instances on the Start Bar is fine by me.
Well, that was my first and hopefully last gripe for 2007. Actually, I have one more gripe so I may as well get it out now.
It is meant to be summer, but it has been the coldest December on record.
On the plus side, my entire immediate family were together today...
That’s me on the right, oldest son Josh in front of me, wife Cathy in the white top and Dan the man with the black cap.