Windows 7

Reversing the direction of wheel scroll to match with Mac OS X Lion

I have been using MacBook Air with Lion. To match with the touch pad behavior, Apple decided to reverse the direction of mouse wheel. Now that I get used to wheel up to make the content to scroll up.

I wanted the same behavior on Windows 7. Here's how to do it.

Invalid MS-DOS Function Error while copying files from Mac to Windows

Lately I bought a Mac Mini to use as a file and internal web server. To regularly backup files on the Mac Mini, I've set up a task schedule that runs Robocopy to mirror the server folder.

It runs mostly fine, but only for a certain file (or maybe a folder), I get the following error.

Invalid MS-DOS Function

Android Development Environment on Windows 7 (64bit)

This is a note when I've built the Android development environment on Windows 7 (64 bit) Premium Home.

  • Eclipse
  • Used 32 bit version Galileo (version 3.5). This is due to that Android SDK doesn't support Helios yet.

  • JDK
  • Used 32 bit version of 1.6.0_21. The initial revision of that version doesn't work, so needed to download the latest one.

  • Android SDK

Solution to sharing Windows 7 Folder to XP

Sharing Windows 7 folder is such a pain because Microsoft has changed a lot of default setting, mainly for the security reason, I think. But that made it so difficult to share a folder on Windows 7.

Windows 7 to Windows 7

Usually, Windows 7 to Windows 7 sharing is straightforward.

Configuration

The following is the base configuration.

Batch File Task

Batch File Task

Disappointed Sony's decision

Sony has decided not to support the model of my laptop.

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/os7upgrade.pl?stage1=24&stage2=492&stag...

ReadyBoost Windows 7 vs. Vista

I use a laptop at work, and one at home (this is my own). Both have 2GB of memory, but I use many heavy applications at the same time, so I tried Windows ReadyBoost feature.

ReadyBoost on Vista

Installed Windows 7

Windows 7 seems a hot topic nowadays, so I installed its RC version. According to some articles, it is much lighter and responsive compared to Vista.

Testbed

The PC I used is Sony VGN-SZ430N, which came with pre-installed Vista Business.

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