Showing posts with label windows 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows 8. Show all posts

Friday, January 17, 2014

BACKBURNER: WINDOWS 8 / WINDOWS 7: UNC Paths

Many thanks my buddy Wynbert for suggesting to use direct UNC paths under RUN, rather than hoping for the network view to populate all machines.  It's probably just my lack of networking knowledge, but Microsoft, you've always been a pain in the ass with networking.

WINDOWS + R, then type in \\COMPUTERNAME\

BAM.  Backburner mini-farm is up and running.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

MAYA: Shrink Windows 8 Window Borders

This probably should sit under it's own "Windows 8" category, but it affects me most when working with Maya on my Windows 8 laptop.  I used the "regedit.exe" method mentioned in the article below.

http://www.howtogeek.com/130138/how-to-change-the-window-border-size-in-windows-8/