IT'S OCTOBER, AND HALLOWEEN WILL SOON BE HERE!

So, while I'm laid up on one side after a back procedure I thought I'd get in my first "Trick-O-Treat" Blog Post, which I hope to have at least once a week. Be prepared, and also remember October is National Squirrel Awareness Month.



First, while not necessarily a Halloween Film, it has sure scared many of us throughout the last year. It was a film about a team of Astronauts who landed on what appeared to be a foreign planet! The last remaining Astronaut is put on trial...

He stands as his own defense for keeping Windows 7, but the judge's clearly do not want to listen to logic!

He, and Windows 7 are sentenced to death, as you might have suspected, while the judge's, called the "Eight's" quickly remove the Windows 7 boxes (keeping one box for each judge). Our hero is put back in jail until the day finally comes where his sentence is to be carried out -

 

Clearly, even while facing death, he remains steadfast in his loyalty for Windows 7 over Windows 8, when suddenly he escapes with the help of some sympathetic clandestine Windows 7 users, and they head for the coast, where they show him their scientific digs.

And it is there that he shows them artifacts of other failed software, each one buried deeper than the other indicating that each decade seems to get a series of flubs. Brushing the layers of dirt and clay from two of these, he shows them Windows ME, and Windows Vista boxes - they are amazed. Humbly, they let him and his female companion go, "Follow the coastline, they tell them".

The lone remainder of his group who has fought tooth and nail to gain his freedom and his companion follow the coast only to discover what lies beyond the great barrier. After a day of traveling he stumbles off his horse and stares at the horror of it all...

Yes, as he bows and curses to the past "Darn you. Darn you to heck!!". The loan survivor finds himself stranded on "The Planet of the Eight's", [spoiler], only in the sequel to find himself locked up underground in "The Planet of the 8.1's"....

TREAT!!

For Windows 7 users: How often have you opened up Windows Explorer and wished you could add a folder to the list on the left under favorites?

It turns out that it's pretty easy to do. While in Windows Explorer, go to the folder or sub-folder you often go to. For instance on one PC I use a folder under "My Pictures" that is several layers deep and have often wished it would show up under Explorer. But for this example I went into the folder Olympus Pictures.

So now I'm in Olympus pictures and then I go to the left column and right-click on FAVORITES and at the bottom you'll see "Add current location to Favorites", and as you can see below it is now listed under Favorites in Windows Explorer.

Hopefully you'd enjoyed my first "TRICK OR...TREAT" Blog post. I'll try to do another two or three before Halloween arrives -

Regards,
Brian