Use the "snipping" tool which was also included in Vista. In the start menu search box, typing "snipping". You can easily take screen captures of selected windows.
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Use the "snipping" tool which was also included in Vista. In the start menu search box, typing "snipping". You can easily take screen captures of selected windows.
It found the graphics card just fine. Apple uses the desktop 8800GS branding on the mobile 8800M GTS. Its nothing new.
PC Keyboards have a "print screen" button. Since mac keyboard dont have this you have to use the snipping tool and grab the whole screen. F13 might work though if you have that on your kb. Its hard to remember what mac keyboards have what keys.
I know what PC keyboards have
F13 wouldn't work because there is no F13 on my MacBook.
All mac keyboards have a different key array so idk what you were working with
Snipping tool it is then, eh?
Also @ MKnight:
I love that Windows shows your MBP as (random black spot)-PC. A Mac is a pc. Steve likes to make people think that macs are made of magic and unicorn droppings when in fact they are nothing more than a pc with apple's tpm taped on. At least MS isnat arrogant enough to make a beachball icon for macs
Snipping tool it is then, eh?
Also @ MKnight:
I love that Windows shows your MBP as (random black spot)-PC. A Mac is a pc. Steve likes to make people think that macs are made of magic and unicorn droppings when in fact they are nothing more than a pc with apple's tpm taped on. At least MS isnat arrogant enough to make a beachball icon for macs
Tell me... Was quicker to find, download, install, open, and download it with, Flashget!!
I just wish there were better touchpad drivers for the Air. Apple's boot camp ones are undeniably dire.
Without a PC keyboard, it could be tough, but Windows 7 also has a lasso tool, where you can grab an image from some section of the screen.
Control maps to control, option maps to ALT, and command maps to the windows key. There shouldn't be any loss in function except for the menu key.
I can't recal having seen a 'Print Screen' button on an Apple keyboard in a very long time...
There was a update to Parallels that has some support for Windows 7 in it. I have it installed and I'm having a problem with the taskbar...there is none. When ever I start up it shows the taskbar but 2 seconds later it's gone. It's not hidden it's like it doesn't exist. Any ideas?
It is currently only available to registered testers via Connect. It should be available to developers this week, but I don't know when a public release is planned (other than that it'll be after the dev release).
I've got it installed on my desktop PC on a brand new WD 640GB drive. I've only explored it for a few hours, but so far it seems very nice. A great feature for widescreen owners is that you can now drag a windows to the left or right edge of the screen and Windows will enlarge it to cover exactly that half of the screen. And you can just drag the window to the top of the screen to maximize it. Works very well.
I'll try to get back with more thoughts and a few benchmarks tomorrow.
I'll try to get back with more thoughts and a few benchmarks tomorrow.
Agreed...
One thing I hope Apple improves is the performance of CoverFlow. It doesn't seem to cache previews at all and is always slow.
Having used Office '03 and '07 on reasonably quick PC's, I can say that it's not a bloated piece of doggie droppings like the mac version is. I just opened it up now, the splash screen showed for a second and then it was up. No complaints with it.
I can't wait for my MBP to come back from Apple repair land, even unrepaired, I'm installing Win 7 on it ASAP, and it'll probably stay like that until MS releases "7" in the summer (next winter?)
With vista, MS finally got the memory management right so it didn't feel bloated, IF you have some insane amounts of RAM installed. From what I've heard, "7" is the same, but without the insane RAM requirement, making me one very happy camper indeed!
go to the start menu and go to "RUN"
click that and type in: explorer.exe
should work
It will likely RTM around October/November. It might go public around that time (Vista RTMed I think in October IIRC, but wasn't released until January 30th to the public IIRC).
Windows 7 will still need to hit Release Candidate stage and Pre-RTM stage.
For anyone who's wondering, RTM= Release to Manufacturing. I think Apple refers to it as going Gold or something like that.
What start menu? There's no taskbar to click on.
Possible fix: Use Ctrl-Alt-Del or equivalent on your Mac keyboard. Then open the task manager. In one of the tabs or menus is an option to add a process. Add "explorer.exe" as stated above.
From what I have heard so far the expected retail release of 7 is due Q3 2009.
And I don't see why it should take any longer than that. 7 is very mature at this point, it has been in development for nearly 5 years now, we have already seen several very stable and mature internal betas with only a few UI tweaks really needed, public beta is expected later this month, the release canidate should be about 2 months behind that, and RTM about a month after that.
After all the Vista delays Microsoft is really under a lot of pressure to release 7 on time, and everyone at MS including the big man Bill himself has promised a 2009 release.