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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:45 AM

Installing latest Windows 7 updates could cause unbootable system

Be careful when installing the latest updates that just came out from Microsoft yesterday. I have only tried them on one machine but after installing the latest updates from Windows Update, my machine rebooted and Windows 7 will no longer start. I have...
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Friday, January 16, 2009 4:11 PM

Activating Windows 7 on different hardware

With Vista, if you replaced hardware on your machine or put your hard drive in a new computer, Windows would prompt you to activate online.  You were typically given 5 or so activations before your key would no longer work. With Windows 7, if you...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:41 AM

How to get your Quick Launch Toolbar back in Windows 7

Right click on taskbar and select Toolbars > New Toolbar Browse to:  C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch Hit: Select Folder -or-   you can just download and install a much better version of Quick Launch...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:33 AM

How to find missing drivers for Windows 7

I installed Windows 7 on machine that was a couple of years old.  When it booted up, the max display resolution was 640x480 because of the old vga video driver that shipped with Windows 7.  I tried to find an updated driver from several places...
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