You can hit F11, and browse in full-screen mode, which will eliminate some of the cruft.
You can also try the Chrome browser, which has less cruft to begin with.
Plus bonus points for use of the word 'mosey'.
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Tom Scola - Oct 24, 2009 2:52:38 am PDT #11451 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sue - Oct 24, 2009 5:44:46 am PDT #11452 of 25501
hip deep in pie
If you use full screen mode (F11), then the tabs and the address ba appear when you mouse to the top of the screen.
erin_obscure - Oct 24, 2009 8:47:46 am PDT #11453 of 25501
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
uh, i have no idea if there is an os installed on the external hd. how would i have done that?
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2009 8:58:24 am PDT #11454 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you don't know, then it is unlikely to be. That's why you can't boot--you have no operating system. You'd have to install one on the external drive, assuming the PC can recognise it as a boot device.
erin_obscure - Oct 24, 2009 9:08:39 am PDT #11455 of 25501
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
aaaaah... hrm, how would i do that? hook up the hd to someone else's computer with a disc drive and then try to copy it over?
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2009 9:16:51 am PDT #11456 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No-you'd need Windows installation media and to boot off that and see if it recognises the external disk as a target.
NoiseDesign - Oct 25, 2009 2:20:47 pm PDT #11457 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Just thought the Mac people might be interested to know that the new Magic Mouse is actually really nice. The multitouch interface on it works like a charm.
Gris - Oct 25, 2009 4:16:45 pm PDT #11458 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I would like to try the Magic Mouse. My fiancé is convinced she will be getting a Mac desktop as her next computer, and I'm planning on pushing for the 27" iMac when the time comes.
I just bought the new Macbook. I love it. Especially since I had all my stuff backed up via Time Machine, so getting it set up the way I like was a matter of "We've noticed you have a Time Machine backup on t drive . Would you like to restore your User Documents, Applications, and Settings from it?" *click* *wait 2 hours* *new computer the way I like it, including all apps*
The only things that didn't make the transition were a couple of serial numbers (Chronosync made me re-register for some reason), the Parallels XP install (which I deliberately excluded from Time Machine for performance reasons and had no problem setting up again), and, for some reason, my MacTex installation. But all things considered, it was a truly beautiful upgrade/replacement experience.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2009 4:51:53 pm PDT #11459 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My HP install of Vista came with an evaluation copy of Office 2007. Which I hated, and I have Office XP anyway. However, when I try and uninstall it, it says "This product installation has been corrupted. Run setup again from the CD, DVD, or other original installation source."
Which I don't have, natch, because it came on the box. But I want the disc space back, and badly. Any recommendations for getting out of this gracefully?
Gudanov - Oct 25, 2009 4:56:25 pm PDT #11460 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I finished revamping my computer. I installed my upgrade to Windows 7. The actual installing Windows 7 stuff is simple, start it up, step away from the computer for 15 minutes, and it's done. The only thing that needed a driver was my laser printer and Windows opened up the page with the driver links in my web browser. I did update the Nvidia drivers myself, though if I didn't care about 3D performance I could have skipped that.
The pain is the anti-piracy for the upgrade. Since I didn't have XP on my machine (I switched to Windows 7 RC). I had to reinstall XP in order to upgrade to Win 7. Fortunately, XP turned out to be easy to install since the only driver I needed was the NIC driver. Even if I had XP installed, I'd have to reinstall it to my new drive since I wanted to put Windows 7 on the new drive. A PITA for someone like me with both a purchased copy of XP and a purchased upgrade of Windows 7. No snags in the process, just a pain as a legit customer to go through hoops, especially since the actual OS install was so smooth.
Having the system drive be an SSD is awesome. MS Word, Firefox, Excel, all open in about a second. I haven't timed the boot up time, but it is very fast. When the desktop appears, it's usable right away.