My PC environment
To give you a little idea of how I’ve got my current machine set up all super convenient, I thought I’d just let you take a look for yourself:
- My absolute favorite is having my permanent address bar at the bottom there. I am constantly online or searching for some site, etc. And this way I don’t have to always launch a new I.E. (Internet Explorer)window and then type in what I want, but instead I can type it in right there & hit Ctrl+enter (the shortcut for having it make it automatically add the http:// and the .com at the end) AND I can even use it as a search by typing in keywords and hitting enter and it’ll bring up the search results.
- Quick launch bar has pretty much all the programs I use regularly, or just want on hand for when I do want to use them.
- See “Links >>” on the bottom-right? Clicking that expands the same list that’s the Favorites > Links I have on the quicklaunch bar in I.E. My most visited sites that I want at a touch of a button. I also use the yahoo bar AND the google bar on my browser. Yahoo because I use all their services: Address book/calendar/notepad/YP/maps, etc and google for the Autofill and search box.
- I rarely use the shortcut icons on the desktop, but there are some I don’t want to stick in my quick launch bar, so they remain there… and as you can see, are sort of clumped together in categories.
- Doubling the space of the bar at the bottom not only gives more room for quick launch, but it allows more room to see what open programs/windows I have open – and I can see the full date and time in the bottom right hand corner.
As you can see, *I heart my PC!* – hence making a switch a difficult one.
Willo O'Brien published this at 4:05 pm in: Uncategorized ::
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You like that quick searh on your task bar? Check this out, it’s a quick search bar on CRACK! Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar, http://www.dqsd.net/
Oh, and it doesn’t come in mac flavor.
P.S. I got my T40 from work and it’s sweet!
One more thing on that task bar, it shows the time and date in the search bar allowing you to turn off the windows one thus freeing up more task bar real estate. Way too many functions to go over.
wow, that’s awesome!!!!
p.s. you got a T40!! LUCKY!!
As I said, I dont mean crash the whole system and stay down for a week… I mean having a program freeze and lose your changes, aka “This program has performed an illegal system error and you are officially screwed.” That never happens on your PC? It happens on my Mac in office, but never where it would matter a ton, say in Photoshop or Illustrator.
Jake
No, I don’t get the illegal screwage, thank god. I have certainly had it before – but this PC has run really beautifully for me. I never get the “blue screen of death” and it’s only every once in a very blue moon do I have to restart cuz everythings frozen up… which is suprising because I max this puppy out!!! I literally can only think of maybe 1 time in the last 2 months that I had to hit the restart button – and it was when I was burning a CD, which made sense since on top of everything else it was a lot. Burning is such a total RAM hog.
Other times I get some programs that are “Not Responding” but can easily get into the Task Manager & End their Process and keep going. I haven’t had any major loses on work in a long time… but I’m pretty good about saving often after many a time in my career of that happening and sucking! :)