Down the mountain with my new Nokia Lumia 800 (Stabilized)

How to turn a shaky movie made with a Nokia Lumia 800 into a much better (stabilized) experience.

The video has been modified with the YouTube standard image stabilization because it's a very shaky film
You can also watch the original to compare the result.
Search for "nokia lumia 800 stabilizer" on youtube if the link does not work.

P.S. The film is not mine, I just place a link to it from my blog. All rights belong to the person who originally uploaded the movie on youtube.

Windows 7 startup slowly at home

Windows 7 takes a long time to start at home

Problem

When I am not connected to the LAN at work, windows 7 takes a long time to startup while displaying "Waiting for the User Profile Service"

Solution

Thanks to Chris Buchanan, I have found the solution at http://www.chrisbuchanan.ca/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=17

What you need to do is to change the Local Group Policy setting the max. wait time for the network ... to 0

Procedure:

1. Start  > gpedit.msc
2. Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > User Profiles
3. Edit the policy "Set maximum wait time for the network if a user has a roaming user profile or remote home directory" to "Enabled" and set the value Wait for network for maximum (seconds) to 0.
4. OK
5. Close policy editor
6. Then force an update of the group policy (gpupdate /force) (this worked only when I was connected to the LAN at work)

Since I did this, the startup time decreased from more than 1 minute to 20 sec. on my Dell XPS 15z (Core i7) laptop.

More details can be found  at http://www.chrisbuchanan.ca/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=17