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Aftermath of a Windows 7 install

March 1, 2010

Well I’ve done it again. My desktop was run­ning Win­dows 7 Release Can­did­ate (7100) and on March 1st, was set to turn into an uber-annoyance machine unless I installed a full retail ver­sion of Win7. So I took the plunge… …more

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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 […]

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Did the Monkey steal the crown?

February 9, 2010

Last year I del­cared Song­bird, the multi-platform media player and organ­izer the Best Music Player Ever. Now, there’s a chal­lenger for the title, at least in the Win­dows / PC arena; Media­Mon­key. …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

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3 windows applications improve your desktop’s appearance

December 4, 2009

Lately I’ve been try­ing to keep my win­dows desktop icon and clut­ter free. In my case, this has meant that I’ve been sav­ing less to my desktop (my default save-to loc­a­tion) and more to work­ing dir­ect­or­ies. And, since a cluttered desktop reflects a cluttered mind, I like to think of this as a bit of […]

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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.
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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

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