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Upgrading from Windows 7 RC to Retail — easily!

February 28, 2010
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Well, being the cut­ting edge kinda guy that I am, I had the Win­dows 7 release can­did­ate (RC) on my sys­tem from the first day it was released. Of course, that means that I was enjoy­ing all the Win­dows 7 good­ness on my sys­tem, with the know­ledge that I’d even­tu­ally have to upgrade to the […]

Tagged as: 7100, Microsoft, RC, Retial, Upgrading, Win7, Windows, Windows 7

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How to add a network activity monitor to Windows 7

November 25, 2009
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I like Win­dows 7. But there’s one thing that I noticed miss­ing right off the top, a net­work activ­ity mon­itor in the Taskbar.
Sure, you could ad a gadget/widget thingie to the desktop, but when you’re work­ing on some­thing, odds are you’re at full-screen resoulu­tion and the mon­itor is behind whatever y ou’re work­ing on.
Well, thanks to […]

Tagged as: animation, blinking, Microsoft, monitor, network, network monitor, taskbar, Upgrade, utility, Windows, Windows 7

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7 nifty things about windows 7

November 17, 2009

Win­dow 7 has been avail­able at retail for a couple of weeks now, so I thought I’d use this post to explore some of the cooler fea­tures and func­tions, cooler to me, at least And, of course, when you select fea­tures to pro­file, a nice round num­ber is always a bonus… …more

This […]

Tagged as: Microsoft, Operating System, Reviews, Windows, Windows 7

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Going back in time with Windows 7

November 17, 2009

Ever wish you could undo a par­tic­u­lar driver or applic­a­tion install­a­tion? I have, recently in fact when I installed Adobe CS3 on my wife’s Win­dows 7 /XP dual-boot com­puter. Some­thing happened in that install that pooched the Flash plu­gin for Inter­net Explorer. It could have been a bad scene, except for a cool little feature […]

Tagged as: Microsoft, Operating System, Reviews, Windows, Windows 7

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How to easily install essential applications on a new Windows 7 computer

November 9, 2009
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It doesn’t mat­ter if you’ve upgraded from Vista or XP, or if you’ve bought a new Win­dows 7 based com­puter, you’re going to need to install some basic and essen­tial applic­a­tions on your new baby.
And this awe­some web­site makes it so, SO easy. 4 easy steps:

Visit the site
Select which applic­a­tions you want
Press the but­ton to start a down­load
Run the […]

Tagged as: application, download, free, hard drive, Install, maintenance, online, software, system, update, Upgrade, utility, Windows 7

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Essential things to do before upgrading to Windows 7

October 19, 2009
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Win­dows 7 is on its way so I thought I’d doc­u­ment some steps to take to pre­pare for a Win­dows 7 upgrade.
Depend­ing on the state of your cur­rent com­puter and the ver­sion of Win­dows you’re cur­rently run­ning, your Win­dows 7 upgrade could consist of:

in-place upgrade over top of your exist­ing OS (Only sup­por­ted for Vista, but […]

Tagged as: Backup, hard drive, Install, maintenance, Microsoft, system, update, Upgrade, Windows 7

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