Vista

Windows Vista Start Menu updates not shown

What appears to be going on?
I have noticed recently that anything that I install is just not showing up on the start menu, even though the installation options are set to creating a link on the start menu, same goes for the quicklaunch for that matter.

What O/S’s appear to be affeced?
From what I can tell, it appears to be Vista only, and it is not as though I am only checking i with cheap applications or applications created by a small firm or someting as I have attempted with recently released games such as Brothers in Arms.

Is there any fix for this?
I have not currently found a fix but I am currently looking for one, I will be sure to post a blog entry about it and explaining how to do the fix for it, once I know. If you do know of a way to resolve this issue then please let me know via coment or email!

Jibber Jabber for life!
- Mark

My Thoughts On FireFox3

Yes, that’s right - I am actually going to be writing a post about my thoughts on FireFox 3!

My first thoughts were the fact that the installation was rather… old looking - and I thought that it was going to be a lot more intuitive than previous installation versions. But it did install without any issues (even on VISTA!).

My next thought was that it loaded up a hell of a lot faster than previous versions of FireFox - which I thought was pretty awesome.

After loading it up - I thought wow, it looks really nice & clean. With previous versions of FireFox I thought it looked rather cluttered and bulky. I also fell in love with the “bookmark this page” even though I prefer to use my own custom PHP generated homepage, I still liked this feature.

For me the loading time of pages is extensively faster than Internet Explorer - although they still have that nasty “render while loading” effect - where you seen like it put the page together. I hate that, I would much prefer it to just….. wait for it all to download and then show me the page. But, at the speed that FireFox 3 actually loads the page, what have I got to complain about?

Switching between tabs seems a lot speedier than with previous versions of FireFox and also with Internet Explorer - but maybe that is just my imagination - who knows!

Anyway, I hear that Tribe over at SlashSwirl.info is going to be making a blog post about his thoughts on FireFox 3 and is also going to be posting a top 5 list of Addons for FireFox in the near future - be sure to check that out!

- M, Jibber Jabber for life!