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Windows 7 (and Vista) have changed the way that the old command line window works.  You no longer have ultimate unlimited power when you click the command line prompt in the start menu.

Try something fancy and you will get the dreaded “The requested operation requires elevation.”  Elevation?  Wait a second, we are in Colorado, is that not elevated enough?  Apparently not.

Now it gets fun.  You can either 1) right click command prompt and choose “run as administrator” or 2) you can use a keyboard shortcut.

Right click method:

Keyboard Shortcut method:

Type cmd.exe into the search/run box in your windows menu and then press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER.  Wow, that’s easy to remember, right?

I use Wordpress 2.7.1 for this blog.  Earlier today I ran into an issue where the image would upload to the Wordpress Media Library, but the link that Wordpress created to the image would not work in the post.

Several other posts I found on the internet mentioned editing some settings in the miscellaneous screen under the site administration settings.  Miscellaneous?  What miscellaneous?

Where is my missing miscellaneous?

I went into the wp-admin directory on my wordpress server and found that I did indeed have an options-misc.php page.  I typed that into my browser’s address bar and hoped for the best.  Sure enough it pulled up the settings page for configuring the image URL location on my Wordpress installation.

I noticed that the setting for “Full URL path to files” was incorrect. I tried blanking the entry (the recommended setting), but that did not work.  I then noticed that my Wordpress installation had added the full URL of my website into the directory structure for the wp-update directory.  I added that extra bit to the end of the image path…

Wordpress miscellaneous settings with corrected full URL path.

and presto, I had images.

If anyone has a suggestion for getting the miscellaneous option to appear in my admin menu, please let me know.

I have an HP Pavilion tx2000 laptop/tablet running the x64 bit version of Windows 7 RC, Build 7100.  The TrueSuite.FPR application would crash every time I tried to register a finger using the Control Panel fingerprint application.

I did a bit of research and found this solution on the Microsoft Technet forums:

     “Try to run “regsvr32.exe “C:Program FilesWIN7TSWBFLibrary.dll”‘ from elevated command prompt.

     It seems that COM-object from this library is not registered in installation process.”

The author (thank you imLex) was absolutely correct and the fix worked perfectly.  It didn’t even require a reboot.

I have downloaded and installed Windows 7 on one of our laptops. So far I am impressed as to how much better it is then Vista. However, I’m still not convinced that it stands up to good old Windows XP. I will post more findings soon.