| My Screenshots: Special issues on Vista page. |
| Note: Some browsers scale the images by default. Prefer to see them in their actual size. |
| Starting to customize. Expanding Control Panel, Documents and Printers is a very practical solution. Expanding Network Connections is also practical. |
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Configuring the services. Here I add the simple TCP-IP services and seriously consider to add the NFS service, for a complete cooperation with Linux NFS servers and clients. Always dig inside the system to adjust and tweak options. | |
| After
deleting
a
partition,
I
choose to extend the ntfs primary one up to the
maximum free space. This task needs administrator privileges and is
done realtime without rebooting. |
Remembering Unix habits. After
the
partition
setup
(all
without rebooting), I happily find that a
volume can be mounted as a directory instead of a drive letter only. I
mount the ntfs
partition as Home and will soon place folders and permissions. |
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| Final partition
setup. C is primary, D is secondary, a Linux partition mounted with the
IFS Drives filesystem layer and swap moved to the last partition. |
Having converted a partition from fat32 to ntfs without losing data, I decide to set up custom permissions and ownership to master folders. The defaults on a new drive are focused on usability and they might not be very strict, but they can be tweaked a lot. | ||
| In Linux Screenshots I showed ScummVM running Full Throttle. Here, ScummVM running in Vista plays Monkey Island 3. ScummVm is portable. So, having resource files in a common partition helps running the same games in different OSes. | This is a Windows 7
issue! Using mouse gestures, tiling 2 Explorers to simulate an orthodox file manager only takes 2 seconds! Orthodox file managers follow the Norton Commander two - pane style. the design is very practical for file copying - moving - decompressing actions. |
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| XPS Document viewed with
Microsoft XPS Viewer.
XML Paper Specification
is an now open standard
developed by Microsoft. The procedure for the user is like printing to
a file instead of the printer. Printing example here.
Portable
Open Source projects like Ocular (KDE project) and Evince can
view XPS Documents. |