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View Comments April 12, 2011
What is Windows 8 “Genuine Center”?
Images have surfaced on winfuture.de of a new Genuine Center in early builds of Windows 8. This appears, for the moment, to simply be a single place accessible from the Action Center where a user can check if their copy of Windows is genuine, enter or change their product key and activate it.
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View Comments April 11, 2011
Top Menu Launchers to Look At
Sometimes the Windows 7 Start menu does not do the kinds of things that you want it to do. So here are some programs that will help you modify your tray menu system, and make it do more of what you want. SE-TrayMenu Use SE-TrayMenu to gain quick access to most frequently used applications.
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View Comments April 11, 2011
Will this Microsoft Windows MVP Jump Ship from Windows 7?
You find me at a crossroads because interesting times are upon us, as I find myself seriously considering, for the very first time, jumping ship from Windows. Nope, you don’t have to check the calendar, it’s not April 1st again and I’ve not been on the strong sauce. I genuinely mean it! What’s more I’m.
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View Comments April 11, 2011
Possible Windows 8 App Store Screenshots leaked
We’ve heard rumors that Microsoft is working on an App Store model codenamed “Jupiter” for their upcoming release of Windows 8. Very little is known about the app store, but small bits have started to leak about Microsoft’s plan for the new app model. This morning, Cnbeta.com posted some screenshots of the purported Windows App.

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View Comments April 10, 2011
New Office Service Packs Coming
Microsoft is busy. It’s Office Suite software is up for some updates and it plans to deliver the first service packs for Office 2010 and for SharePoint 2010 sometime this summer. Moreover, they also plan to deliver service pack 1 for the Mac version of Office 2011 the week of April 11. Date Updates The service pack delivery dates.

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View Comments April 10, 2011
Commodore 64 Makes A Return Running Windows 7
The Commodore 64 was widely regarded as one of the first actual personal computers that people could buy and use. Primarily it was known as the first gaming pc with titles such as “California Games” getting it a massive base of users. The Commodore 64 roamed this earth long before I did, but I’m sure.

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View Comments April 9, 2011
Windows 7 Overtakes Windows XP in USA
We’ve been wondering when this day will finally come for a while. It didn’t take Windows 7 too long to overtake Windows Vista in terms of market share, but we all agreed that the biggest test for Windows 7 would be to see if it could take down the mighty Windows XP.

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View Comments April 9, 2011
I’m TK421 and the Death Star was my Idea
Some great videos have been put online parodying Microsoft’s “Windows 7 was my idea” adverts from last year. The videos feature a Stormtrooper, Darth Vader and Chewbacca. The videos are very professionally made with excellent costumes and a very effective green-screen process. When Microsoft launched Windows 7 they wanted to make it known.

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View Comments April 8, 2011
Top Graphics Editors
With all of the Photos and Themes that you can have on a PC today, there are some tools that can help you manage and manipulate those photos. Here are some Graphics Editors for you to look at. PhotoBatch You can use PhotoBatch for batch image processing, or file format conversion and renaming of image

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View Comments April 7, 2011
Some Top Desktop Managers to Look At
Managing your desktop can be an adventure that you may prefer to avoid in part because no matter what you do, your desktop will go back to the same condition that it was in…messy. But some of the Desktop Managers here can help you avoid that problem. SideSlide SideSlide is an advanced, portable, and unobtrusive,

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View Comments April 7, 2011
NetGear NeoTV 550 HD Set-Top Box Review
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or through other social networks may know that for the last month I’ve been testing NetGear’s new, top of the range NeoTV550 HD Media Player. This box is a small, and I really do mean small, do it all box for the connected home. It will sit

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View Comments April 6, 2011
What’s Pinned to Your Taskbar?
I’d like to get a feel for how different Windows 7 users are organizing their taskbar and whether Internet Explorer 9′s pinning feature is as useful to others as it is to me.

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View Comments April 6, 2011
A Quick Look at Top Registry Cleaners
One of the most important and least understood program database on a Windows computer is the registry. It stores information about all programs, users, files, folders, passwords, and anything else on the computer on a cryptic and hard to read database. When you add a program to the computer, the registry is modified.

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View Comments April 6, 2011
How Many Lawsuits Will Windows 8 Provoke?
In the last week we’ve had a few juicy leaks about forthcoming Windows 8 features such as the inclusion of the Ribbon interface into Explorer. We’ve seen new screenshots that offer tantalising views of new features, and we now could also see a fair few lawsuits being prepared by third-party companies. Why do I say this?

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View Comments April 5, 2011
Top Defraggers to Look At
The API is part of the operating system and can safely move almost any file on the disk, without risk and while the computer is in full use.


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