This isn’t officially verified but it appears that Microsoft has fixed a glitch that has persisted for quite a while in Windows Media Center.
UPDATE: This glitch hasn’t been fixed at all. My system glitching made it seem as if it was fixed. However, pressing the Windows key yields the desired result of being able to use your mouse cursor on another screen until you click on the Media Center again, at which point the cursor becomes trapped on that screen again. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I wish someone would get Microsoft to fix this annoyance.
I say not verified because for all I know my system is glitching which is temporarily fixing the glitch. But back to the topic. For a while now if you used Windows Media Center with a multiple monitor setup, if you maximized the application on one monitor, your cursor was stuck to that screen unless you Alt+Tab to an app on another monitor, or use the Windows key. This is basically an annoyance, though a workaround was to resize the window to almost 100% of the screen.
In the past, if you had a problem with Windows that prevented Windows from booting, you were limited to either downloading a third party system recovery disk like the “
This problem is an annoyance that may randomly affect you if you’re using the beta or RC of Windows 7, and it’s a doozy. Some random permissions problem occurs and none of your Programs show in the All Programs menu on your start menu. This means you can’t start any program that isn’t pinned to the task bar without digging through explorer to find the start menu items. I thought I’d write about this because apparently, not many people have written about it, so it’s best to get the fix onto search engines so the next person has an easier time fixing this problem.
Linux as a Desktop has been a work in progress for years now. After being flamed for complaining about it’s weaknesses, I decided to give it another chance to be fair. Most of my complaints have been about not being able to work with multimedia well so I decided to try out the newly released Linux Mint 7. That distribution is based on Ubuntu and comes with the more questionable media codecs and libraries pre installed. I have always preferered Fedora because it is more cutting edge, but it requires research an trial and error just to get it to play a DVD. Once Mint was installed, I popped in a DVD just to test it out and it started right up. I wasn’t able to play around with any mp3s as I was unable to network with my Windows machine, but I’ll get back to that later.