It's beginning to look like I was right about the climate talks in Copenhagen. They'd rather fight than eat, it seems. It won't matter a damn who is to blame if we all go down the drain from lack of action. But saying 'no' to the status quo isn't going to be easy.
I was surprised to learn that the Windows 7 Starter version is being installed on netbooks all over the world. Why am I surprised? Because, people with netbooks were installing the Ultimate version of Windows 7 Beta on them last spring, and running it OK. Microsoft themselves have said that they designed Windows 7 so that it can run well on the widest possible variety of hardware. So there's really no excuse for a stripped-down version like Starter to be installed on your average netbook with enough poop to run better stuff on it. I got onto that because a friend in the U.K. bought a netbook with that Starter version on it and found he can't change the wallpaper, and there's no Personalization, no Themes or Aero transparency, and you can't enjoy streaming audio or video in it. He's a graphics oriented kind of guy, and was very disappointed to discover how limited it was. Me too.
Here's where to find a program that can change that wallpaper on a Starter version of Windows 7, and it uses a separate process which doesn't depend on the Microsoft system for its success.
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