Windows 7

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• Article | 11/05/2011 Windows 7 Home Premium vs. Windows 7 Professional

  People often ask us which version of Windows they should purchase for their new PC build. Generally speaking Windows 7 Home Premium Edition has everyt...
• Article | 5/02/2011 Prepare your PC for future data disasters

  Reformatting and restoring a PC is not fun--in the way spending 2 hours in the dentist's chair is not fun. You have to back up all your data (and pray...
• Article | 27/01/2011 Switching to desktop Linux? 6 ways to ease the migration

  With all the many compelling reasons for a company to switch to Linux on the desktop, it's no wonder that businesses large and small are increasingly ...
• Article | 21/09/2010 Windows 7: 10 Cool Keyboard Shortcuts

  Keyboard shortcuts are wonderful time-savers but many of us are either too accustomed to the mouse or too lazy to get beyond Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.
• Article | 3/08/2010 Safely dual-boot Windows 7 and XP

  QUESTION My PC dual-boots Windows XP 32bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Every time I work in XP I lose all my restore points in Windows 7.
• Article | 13/08/2010 How to get more from a quad-core PC

  QUESTION: My Windows 7 Home Premium computer has a quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM. I've not found any advantage to using four cores. How can I use...
• Article | 21/04/2010 The ultimate guide to Windows 7 security

  Windows 7 has been warmly received and swiftly adopted by businesses, with the result that many IT admins are now struggling with the platform's new s...
• Article | 15/03/2010 How to: Make Windows 7 look like a Commodore 64

  Way back in the Mesozoic era of computing (also known as the early 1980s), we didn't have slick little netbooks or big, powerful desktops.
• Article | 8/03/2010 Update your video drivers after installing Windows 7

  I just installed Windows 7 on a Compaq laptop that was previously running Vista. It was a clean install, meaning I wiped the hard drive rather than si...
• Article | 24/02/2010 Streamline the move to Windows 7 with Easy Transfer

  Upgrading users to a new operating system always seems to have its pitfalls, and Windows 7 is no exception. If you're migrating multiple users, you'll...
• Article | 5/02/2010 Turn off Windows 7 'compatibility mode' for iTunes

  Back in December I told you about Windows 7's little-known application-compatibility troubleshooter, which I'd used to try to resolve a problem with i...
• Article | 24/01/2010 How to: Save and retrieve Attachments

  Today, let's look at a very common source of confusion for novice users: saving and retrieving file attachments.
• Article | 22/01/2010 Windows IQ: learn your laptop's power settings

  My aunt recently told me about a problem with her new laptop: Whenever she'd step away from it for more than a few minutes, she'd close the lid. Upon ...
• Article | 7/01/2010 How (and why) to partition your hard drive

  Disk partitioning--separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes--can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and than...
• Article | 9/01/2010 Add network folders to Windows 7 libraries

  I'm a big fan of Windows 7's Libraries feature, which makes it easy to find the documents, music, pictures, and videos scattered across various locati...