http://www.vistaaudiochanger.com/Downloads.aspx

 

Holy Crap. Thanks Sho!

 

Well, if you're going with multiple sound devices then there's no "easy" solution, but there are solutions.

He's going to have to go with some kind of software that can manipulate sound settings. There's a freeware called Autohotkey that can do pretty much anything you can do with a mouse and keyboard and I'm sure he can create a macro for that. I actually use that myself in my Media Center setup, except I use it to change the display not the sound. Here's what such a script looks like:

So you make a script like that (very easy once you figure out basic commands), you make it open your sound control panel and you basically tell the script to navigate with the keyboard to apply your desired setting, and then you compile this script into an EXE file. After that all you need to do is run the EXE to change your sound setting, you don't even need Autohotkey installed on your system.

So your buddy could create a shortcut and click it every time he's loading the Media Center to change the sound setting. He can get as fancy as he wants and he can make the script do everything for him, like change the sound, display, resolution, etc. and launch Media Center all from one shortcut.

This is kind of what I do, except I also have an IR receiver hooked to my PC and I use Girder, which listens for IR events and translates them to key presses or launches programs.

So when I use my Logitech Harmony remote and press "watch Media Center", the remote turns on the TV, sets the input to HDMI2 (my PC), turns on the stereo, sets the sound input to coax, sends a wake signal to the PC (only matters if it's suspended), and tells Girder to launch my "start Media Center" script. My script changes the resolution to 1920x1080, changes the output from my monitor to my TV, and then launches Media Center. Then I navigate my Media Center using the remote. There's also an "off" script that does all this in reverse.

So with one button on the remote it does all this crap. It would be easy to make the script change sound settings in addition to the video settings. If your friend is serious about this stuff he should get a Harmony remote and an IR receiver, and install Girder. But if he just wants to automate the sound thing he can write a script for that.

 

^ If I had to switch sound outputs every time, I'd probably use this to make a more simple Autohotkey script, by invoking the hotkey for the desired sound device.

 

Is there a program out there that will allow me to cache some security questions and have a button on the welcome screen, in case the user forgets their password?

Here is the situation, users do not have a local login account, they must logon initially while connected to the domain. Their credentials are then cached and they can logon when not connected to the domain.

When they forget their password and they are not in the office, they call the helpdesk and get the local admin credentials and login, launch vpn, and then change their password.

I am trying to avoid giving them the local admin credentials. I've called and googled a few different softwares, but they all require domain connectivity.

If we can cache their domain credentials, why can't we cache a set of security questions? Have you guys seen any program like this or is it even possible?

 

What if you forced them to do a password hint? I know it's not the same but

 

I forgot to mention this would be on Vista machines.

AFAIK, Windows doesn't allow password hints on domain accounts.

 

Hell, I'd be ecstatic if I could just get Vista or Win 7 to go back to the XP-like three field login box: Username, Password, Log on To.

 

I just ordered the family 3 pack. one for my notebook and one for my desktop.

 

1+1=2 ... not 3

 

I will still have one more available.

It was like $119 for one version or $149 for the three pack.

 

I also got the Family pack for my dad. I thought there would be 3 keys inside, but there's just one key, I guess MS will let you use it on 3 different machines before they slap you over the head.

 

yep, same deal with office 07 student edition, allows 3 activations on 3 separate machines.

 

I just got my Fujitsu T5010 tablet with Windows 7 Pro Multi-touch enabled. So far this thing is pretty sweet!

 

Nice I was watching a review the other day before I ordered where they were showing the touch capabilities, even using software that wasn't touch enabled.

 

I installed Win7 a week or two ago and all I can say is that it is superb. Boots up in 30 seconds, compared with a 2 minute boot from Vista .

Everything runs so much smoother. Haven't had a problem so far. It's as if my computer was meant for it.

 

I am thinking about ordering a WD 1TB drive and a new processor

 

Got the HD but am gonna hold off on the processor for now to see how everything runs. I don't do much on my PC, just wanted some more storage. I will probably store all my media on the one I have now and use the new 1TB as the primary drive.

 

HP is sending W7 upgrade for the wife's touchpad.

 

what processor do you have?

 

I installed my new toy (a 256gb SSD) in my laptop and ghosted the OS over from my old 120gb 7000rpm drive.

Windows 7 went from booting in about a minute to under 15 seconds and coming back from hibernation in just about 5.

 

Sweet. What SSD did you get? I haven't been able to find one that size for much less than $700.

 

toy thread


https://acurazine.com/forums/showpos...postcount=4929

and it was $700 (but my company paid)
Kingston SSDNow V+ SNV225-S2/256GB 2.5" 256GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD)

 

Over the last couple days I've installed Server 2008 R2 in a VM on my Hyper-V 2008 R2 Server. It's running alongside Windows Home Server and Ubuntu 9.10 which are also in VMs. I'm happy that my plan has finally worked out!

 

Do you have an MSDN subscription or do you actually buy these server licenses?

 

I know a guy with MSDNAA and he hooked it up! Then hyper-v server is free and I paid for WHS a couple years ago

 

With flash 10.1 and AIR 2 they're adding multi-touch support so now you can make multi-touch programs using either MS SDK or Adobe.

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Anyone else think this guy is really cool? I want a ceramic one of these on my desk. I hope they make these to buy!

 

I'm not sure off the top of my head to tell you the truth. It's been a while since I built the desktop. I was looking at the special they had on NewEgg for $99 for the AMD quad core. On my laptop now from work so I will have to check later.

 

So PDC 2009 started today. Which is the professional developers conference and is the same place that they unveiled Windows 7 last year. The first day is all about developers and tomorrow should be more consumer based.

Today was about Windows Azure their cloud based computing thing that will be available on the 1st of next year. It seems they're taking the right approach, it's pretty much going to be windows in the cloud in that it will be the platform that you run your apps on and it doesn't really matter whether it's Java, mysql, php, eclipse,.net whatever there's quite a few 3rd party languages that run on Azure.

I know most of you don't care about this now but in a couple years this will be pretty important and I think MS is making the right move to be the place to be to have your program hosted in the cloud.

Tomorrow should be more about IE 9, Silverlight 4 (which is going mobile) and Office 2010 with hopefully the beta will be released publicly.

FYI, the Office 2010 beta is already available right now on MSDN and Technet.

 

Hmm I have MSDNAA for school but I think it's limited to a few programs.

 

Got the wife's upgrade disk today

 

I have that as my wallpaper during startup

 

Office 2010 Public Beta is available now

http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx

Make sure you download in IE it won't work in other browsers.

Speaking of browsers MS talked a little about IE9 today and some of the new things that they're focusing on. They've only been making builds for a few weeks but they've already got java performance on par with current browsers.



Also the browser will use hardware accelerated graphics and text which leads to really nice and smooth text and graphic effects. It also has full HTML 5 support. A pre-release build should hopefully available around CES time

 

Sweet.

 

Downloading from FF, right now.


It's also available on Technet....

 

IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari... yeah, whatever.

 

Perhaps they should be concentrating on other things today.



Been this way for the last hour.

 

The DirectX D2D hardware accelerated text and graphics was nice and whats great is that web developers dont have to do anything to their pages to enable it, it all handled ny the browser.

this feature will be w7/ Vista only

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...27(WS.10).aspx