Tag Archives: Windows 7
Disable automatic restart after Windows 7+ update
Microsoft is funny. They have all these sensible settings that they never bother to turn on and then they switch on the most annoying things. One of the things that pisses me off most is how they handle updates. Besides deciding to lock my PC down during shutdown and restart to install updates (because hey, when i shut down my … Continue reading
Running Starcraft + Brood War on Windows 7
A simple say to get the original Starcraft and it’s BroodWar expansion pack running on Windows 7 (tested on 64bit). Should work with any of the original battlecraft games (Warcraft 1,2 etc….) Continue reading
How to run Still Life under Windows 7/Vista Ultimate
Still Life is a pretty decent, if not a slightly dark, adventure game from 2005. As all games it runs fine on XP and like most games it fails to run on Vista (but…who cares?) and Windows 7. NOTE: I’m running Win7 64bit. With any luck this will not matter for 32bit users (apparently it does not). Googling around will … Continue reading
Disable Avira splash screen and Nag on Windows 7 64bit
On Windows 7 64bit disabling the splash is same as for vista, but the location of avgnt in the registry has changed to: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Continue reading