Tag: "Vista"

The Best Free Apps Worthy of Downloading
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The Best Free Apps Worthy of Downloading

Knowing our 30 Recommended Software Downloads for Free article was now a year old, we decided to give it an upgrade. After we got started I didn’t fully realize just how many applications we had tested throughout the year, and how many had made the cut until I started putting this list together.
When we finished [...]

Get Windows 7 Themes into your Vista or XP
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Get Windows 7 Themes into your Vista or XP

Lots of hard work went into the creation of Windows 7 themes, Microsoft put forth more effort into Windows 7 than any of the previous versions. Naturally this also created a ton of buzz, and Microsoft’s largest pre-order sales ever. Aesthetically, Windows 7  looks way better than any of it predecessors, the transparent start menu [...]

Create a Bootable Vista or Windows 7 USB Flash Drive
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Create a Bootable Vista or Windows 7 USB Flash Drive

This is a simple guide to creating a bootable USB flash drive for a Vista or Windows 7 installation, you may know of a USB flash drive to be called a pen drive, thumb drive, USB drive or a memory stick. Hopefully that brief explaination has clear the air as to what we are taking [...]

Video: Fences just left beta and rolled out its 1.0 release
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Video: Fences just left beta and rolled out its 1.0 release

The much anticipation version 1.0 of the popular desktop organization application Fences, has been released today, and it continues to keep your cluttered desktop icons in attractive, minimal, organized groups.

Belkin Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 7 is your data saver
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Belkin Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 7 is your data saver

If your going to install Windows 7 then your going to ask yourself: How do I get all my crap like photos, tax returns, and all your MP3s onto my new computer? The answer is buy a $40 cable and forget about it.
Belkin will release the Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 7 on October 23rd, [...]

Understanding Windows 7 upgrade paths and Chart
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Understanding Windows 7 upgrade paths and Chart

Windows 7 has earned itself a great deal of respect and it hasn’t even been released to the stores yet. Lots of Vista users are waiting for the release of Microsoft’s next operating system upgrade, not to mention the die hard Window XP fans who refused to upgrade to Vista.
The Redmond Software Giant will be [...]

Make a bootable USB installer for Windows with WinToFlash
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Make a bootable USB installer for Windows with WinToFlash

Last week I had to install Windows on a few machines around here, one for my daughter and one for my son. Seems my daughter wanted to go back to XP and my son wanted a new install of Vista. So I decided to make a bootable USB flash drive in order to make this [...]

Exciting downgrade options from Microsoft leaked
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Exciting downgrade options from Microsoft leaked

We have known for some time now that Microsoft was offering some cool options for downgrading your laptop in case you get a computer that has an O.S you do not need.
According to Tech ARP Microsoft will be allowing users to downgrade from Windows 7 Prefessional or Ultimate to such options as XP Professional, XP [...]

Window's Vista SP2 goes live
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Window’s Vista SP2 goes live

Its finally here, not that any of you should be terribly excited about it because Vista has been working fine for ya? What’s that we hear, its freakin’ slow? Well in that case you might want to check out Microsoft because they have released the SP2 for Vista today and you can download it.
They are [...]

Google Chrome Browser Review
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Google Chrome Browser Review

I have never actually gotten the whole idea of the browser wars. While I do think some browsers perform better than others I have always said t depends on the user and the hardware specs. So you can imagine that I was a little apprehensive when I heard that Google was entering the browser domain [...]

Microsofts Windows 7 Features and Performance
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Microsofts Windows 7 Features and Performance

When Vista entered the market last year,  customers found it ran slow and often crashed. Even worse there were many programs that wouldn’t work, including some created by Microsoft. Not only were users dissatisfied, developers moved slowly to design computers and software for the new operating system.