More discoveries in Windows 7....

For those of us who had a desktop icon for "Task Manager" on our former desktop (mine has an icon made from a photo of Dana Delany in her dominatrix role from 'Exit To Eden'), and maybe you miss that, Windows 7 has an alternative called Resource Monitor. This, as they say, is a sort of "super task manager" and you can see that it comes with its own custom icon, if you make a shortcut to it.

You can make that shortcut very easily. Just right-click a blank area on the desktop, and then choose "New" and "Shortcut", and in the blank title box, type RESMON.exe and then click OK. The new shortcut appears on your desktop, as in the above screen shot, (upper left). Clicking on that will help a lot in your recovery from missing Task Manager.

And please do check out these tips and tweaks for Windows 7. You'll be glad you did....

There aren't a lot of security programs yet available for use with Windows 7, but there are some, including Avast, and also check this one out if you'd like one that works along with others to grab the bad guys by their behavior instead of waiting for database listings of them like most do. This sounds like a winner... try it.

And under "Back To The Future", in the little Search box above the Start button, if you type in CMD and hit Enter, it brings up the Command Prompt window.... and then if you type into that at the flashing cursor, "sfc /scannow" (without quotes of course) you get what is now called the Resource Checker, and it scans all your System files to (a) verify integrity, or (b) fix the problems it found. It's a sort of evolved version of Windows Millennium's "System File Checker" with improvements. Not a bad thing, actually.... Especially if, like me, you like to tinker around with stuff that may require a few changes to system files from time to time.
I just checked my system, and so far, it's in mint condition.