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Took the plunge, Installed Vista Service Pack 1

I did it, I finally took the plunge and installed Windows Vista SP 1. I had been hesitating because there were a few driver incompatibilities listed on the windows website that I knew I had. I tried to find updates for them but one in particular, my audio drivers, were not released yet for my [...]

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We all probably could do a little better at backing up important files

Do you perform regular backups of your files?
Let me tell you a little story. Last week a friend called me and was asking quetions about his PC. One day he got the dreaded messages saying that his drive was corrupt. The files were unreadable, and it doesnt  boot to anything. Says the drive is bad [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo? Heres 4 other tech companies I would like to see merge

Everyone is talking about the Microsoft Yahoo potential merger lately. I think there are some obvious good reasons for them to merger, and of coarse when dealing with Microsoft, there are always bad reasons. Put that merger aside for a minute. Think about all of the other companies out there, all of the other sections [...]

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Popular RSS software is now FREE!!!

Do you use Google reader to keep up with your RSS feeds? Ever wanted to try a RSS aggregator that that resides on your PC instead of being PC based? Well one of the best PC based RSS aggregator programsjust made a big change in its pricing structure. FeedDemon is now free!!!

I use to use [...]

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Cant delete that file in Vista? Bypass all that permission mumbo jumbo by logging into the hidden admin account.

The other day, a friend of mine installed some software on his Vista notebook. The software was incompatible with Vista so he went to uninstall it so that he can install the newer version that is compatible. The incompatible software somehow got corrupted so it wouldn’t uninstall using your regular automated uninstall method. After trying [...]

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Get Paint.net, a free alternative to Photoshop

There is one necessary evil that comes with every windows install, or in my case Vista re-install. Thats getting all of the drivers and software that you had installed before back onto your PC just like you like it. So after my last re-install, I started putting Office back on, Win RAR, Firefox etc. I [...]

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