Good - it wasn't meant for a mouse - that functionality is MS's new legacy.

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No rush, this is just a preview. The real deal won't be around for a year or so and by that time everyone will be looking for something new.

Yeah you're right what I had in mind was - this ain't your main os so go ahead and poke around, change things, you aren't going to break anything. And experimenting, and troubleshooting etc. is what I do for a living, then I have to write a manual on what to do to replicate the behavior!

Press the control key and use the mouse wheel. The touch gestures equivalents are basically what have been the standard ones in the various browsers which use them, a combination of dragging the mouse with shift or control pressed. Experiment, and that's what the danged thing is there for.

Your screen name looks like it's your password.

Windows won't allow you to do that and won't even detect when you insert or remove your headphones. What you can do however is get a USB to Audio adaptor from Radio Shack or a set of USB headphones. You can control the communications stream (which uses the USB) separately from the audio (which uses the speakers). You…

This msdn page will show you how.

How are you finding California after what... 6 months?

That's too bad - XP allowed autorun.inf files on the USB stick to run a batch file on insertion. This was taken away in W7 and (I think) Vista for security reasons.

Hey, never mind giving howtogeek all the credit, one of your own readers tipped you this on Saturday.

How professional does that look? Is your name teffubnerraw?

I wouldn't consider someone who gave me her email as jabarismith.bsc@gmail.com as flaunting their qualification - it's in no way any different to drjimmypage@gmail.com. You're not going to get any further even with an added initial however for the financially stable you can always email the person who holds the object…

I once tried emailing billgates@gmail.com to see what happened. If you're curious the email bounced.

Try putting your occupation in there along with gmail's dot thing - whitsongordon.journalist@gmail.com

Are you running XP?

You can do something very similar already. register your USB as a device then go to Control Panel/Autoplay and find your device in the list. Choose the default action. If you don't have a suitable default action (I don't know if you want to backup everything or just images or music) then install Microsoft SyncToy and…

I don't, but it doesn't make for a smooth read.

That's actually true if you make it - "If your funny on the internet, you don't have to be intelligent or accurate" - kind of like rule #1 of the internet.

All this OS trolling is hiding the fact that this article has at least one typo in nearly every paragraph. Whatever happened to writing standards?