Warning: this post contains some profanity (sorry Mum). I’ll admit it, I initially thought Windows 7 was OK. In fact, fairly decent. However, the m0re I’ve used it, the more it has disappointed me. Windows it seems, regardless of the version number, will always be Windows… At first it was all zippy menus and I [...]

If you can’t hear any sound using Windows 7, the chances are, if everything driver wise is installed correctly, your audio playback device is configured to ‘headphones’ instead of ‘speakers’. You can check this by right-clicking the sound icon (bottom right of the Taskbar) and choosing ‘Open Volume Mixer’. Now play some audio (just click [...]