Copy and Paste Won’t Work with Text Highlighted

OK, some of the other tips on Geeky Drunk have actual answers, but we’re stuck on this one. It happens on our Vista desktop and Vista laptop / tablet pc. When I copy some text, I first highlight it and then right click and select “copy.” Then I go to the other program I want [...]

Change Vista Default Folder View / Make Folders Same

I finally tried to get organized one night and figure out how to make all my folders have a default “list view.” If I have a lot of files in one directory, I usually prefer the list view versus icons, details or tile views. This was easy to do in Windows XP, but with the [...]

Bill Gates CES 2008 Keynote Address

If you haven’t seen it yet, the “Bill Gates Last Day of Work” video is pretty funny. Quite a number of cameos by celebrities, Bill rocking out on Guitar Hero, and Slash comes out at the end and wails on his guitar. Kind of strange, but in the same way, fitting for the Big G’s last [...]

Windows Vista Celebrates Birthday by Saying “Buy Me!”

This Geeky Drunk received an email from good ole’ Microsoft celebrating the one-year birthday of little Vista, and thanking me for participating in testing of Windows Vista Beta or Release Candidates. To show their supposed appreciation, Microsoft has several special offers available exclusively to me! That’s right, just to me . . . I must [...]