Here’s a quick FYI, if Inkscape crashes in Windows 7 (and it’s doing a lot of that, too), it saves a backup (it has every time for me, but some people say it only occasionally creates emergency backups) in this location: C:\Users\YourUserName\ . That directory, with no extension. If you haven’t saved it yet, it’ll save as “New Document.“. If you have saved it already, the file will bear the saved file’s name, then the date and time.

It was just harder than it should have been to find this information in a Google Search, figured I’d add another info source to the pool.

Lark

Anyone regularly reading my posts on twitter (still not comfortable with ‘tweets’ instead of ‘posts’ for some reason) might have noticed two odd ones back to back:

I take back every nice thing I said about Windows 7. My ATI drivers won’t install, so I can’t play Fallout 3. Dealbreaker, back to XP.

And later:

I take back everything bad I said about Windows 7. Got Fallout 3 working after all, a driver issue, which I suspected, VERY hard to fix.

This might be the first thing you want to do. Windows 7 automatically grants itself the option to restart itself without your confirmation after installing updates. It puts a little notification up over the status icons, but if you’re like me you’ll think it’s asking to restart. I closed it, figuring I didn’t tell it to restart, so it wouldn’t. Nope, it was just telling me it would restart in 10 minutes, and since I didn’t pay enough attention and choose to delay that, I lost a lot of changes I was making to an image for work. (Re: the link–I used the option to edit group policy from that page)

I don’t know anything about the website I linked to, I’m not endorsing it at all, it’s just the first result in Google and it had the fix I was looking for.

Lark