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You usually don't notice them until you go looking for them, but Windows 7 comes with a number of support tools. This excerpt from William R. Stanek's Windows 7 Administrator's Pocket Consultant wil...
In this excerpt from David A. Karp's Windows 7 Annoyances, the author reviews shortcuts and visual tools for window management.
One of the perks you get with Windows 7 is a whole bunch of window
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Is your new Windows 7 system acting flakey? It could be bad memory. This excerpt from David A Karp's Windows 7 Annoynaces will help you test for bad memory (RAM).
Bad memory can manifest itself i...
Windows Preinstallation Environment completely replaces MS-DOS as a means of installing Windows® operating systems. The following excerpt from William R. Stanek's Windows® 7 Administrator's Po...
Looking for an easy-to-use, light-weight alternative to the User State Migration Tool in Windows 7? This excerpt from Windows® 7 Resource Kit runs through the basic use of the Windows Easy Trans...
Answered by blackbear : Oct 06 2009 06:17 AM
I just did such an upgrade. Be aware that there is really no "upgrade" path from XP to Windows 7, you need to do a full install. If you used NTFS under XP, the install can run without a re... full answer >
If you plan to multiboot several different Linux distributions, you'll want to prepare your system. You want a standalone /boot partition and shared /home and /swap partitions.
Most Linux distrib...
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