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  • Paragon Go Virtual: Clone your Windows into a Virtual Enviroment [Freeware]

      Windows Guides’ Rating User Rating Compatible with System 5 out of 5 Many of you out there, reading this, use virtualization software (VM-Ware, Virtual PC, Virtual-Box etc.) now and then or on a regular basis (Proof Here). Most users emulate...
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  • Ultramon.. Dual Screen Functionality..

    Some you lose.. One of the most annoying events in a computer users life is losing features when upgrading to the latest and greatest OS. When I moved up to Vista from XP, my Canon scanner still retained full support because Canon were good enough to provide a Vista compatible toolbox. My HP printer...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sun, Oct 26 2008
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  • Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows?

    Yet another feeble attempt to mess up my computer. In this e-mail, the creator/sender has not even tried to make it look like an official Microsoft message. These boys are getting lazy.. :-) The reference in the e-mail text below is to this helpful update: virus Win32/Spy.Goldun.NDO trojan I am sure...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sun, Oct 12 2008
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  • If You Are Into Cleaning..

    .. go do dishes or take the vacuum cleaner out for a jaunt around your abode, but please please quit using registry cleaners. The Windows NT operating system family (NT, Win2K, XP, Vista) is not phased by orphaned registry entries. They are ignored. There is no need to clean them out. The Windows NT...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Oct 1 2008
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  • Add Bloat To Taste

    Actually, I hate the word 'bloat', but I use it now because it is bandied around quite a lot. According to sources, the next version of Windows will no longer include an e-mail client, picture viewer, and MovieMaker. It is said that this will benefit the user in as much as the latest versions...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Sep 24 2008
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  • Ultimate Defrag.. Ultimate fun..

    What can be more fun than watching a 'Roomba' in action, windshield wipers clearing rain, clothes swishing around in a front loading wash machine or dryer. Ask your pet dog or cat. As members of the genus 'Homo Sapiens', we are above this kind of behaviour, yes? Nooooooooooooooo, we are...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Thu, Sep 11 2008
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  • Back To Past XPerience..

    According to a report in 'The Register', a third of all Vista machines have been put back to XP. Read more here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/windows_xp_vista_7/ Personally, I think that home users are wrong in doing this unless, like commerce, they have mission critical procedures...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Aug 20 2008
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  • Windows Update - Code 57A

    If you have attempted to install the latest round of Office updates via Windows Update, there is a very good chance of seeing this error code. There is a fix, but it is quite severe and may leave you with the task of creating new user accounts if your computer is set up for multiple users. It requires...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Thu, May 15 2008
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  • Setting Up An e-mail Account..

    .. with your Internet Service Provider is easy. All you have to do is call ISP support, and a 'technician' will walk you through the process. Whether you are using Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, Entourage or whatever, calling your Internet Service Provider is the best and...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sun, May 11 2008
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  • Et Tu, AVG?

    Version 8.0 Is NOT compatible with SpywareBlaster or Spybot 'immunize' features. The AVG people are well aware of this and sent this e-mail to a user in response to problems encountered, suggesting the following actions.. Dear Sir/Madam, According to your e-mail, we would like to inform you with...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, May 9 2008
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  • AVG releases Version 8

    Grisoft have released a new version of their Anti-Virus product. It has a new look icon and new look interface. Download the new version from.. http://free.grisoft.com/ Uninstall version 7.5 or whatever anti-virus solution you are presently using, and then install the new one. As usual, you can get it...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Apr 26 2008
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  • Low Virtual Memory Warnings..

    .. happen because you thought that.. 1. your friend was right about having everything run in RAM, so you deleted the page file.. 2. you thought that you could recoup some badly needed and, in your opinion, wasted hard drive space, so you deleted it or made it smaller.. 3. you filled up your hard drive...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Tue, Mar 11 2008
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  • Need for Speed - Vista vs XP

    I now have conclusive proof that Vista is 'apparently' every bit as fast as XP.. For all of these tests, I followed exactly the same procedures each time. The installations are on individual drives in the same machine, not set up as dual boot. The applications installed are the same types, as...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Mar 3 2008
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  • Vista Capable?

    A judge has ok'ed the class action lawsuit against Microsoft regarding the 'marketing' stickers applied to the front of XP machines in the months leading up to the release of Vista. We hear that some 'big noises' within the Microsoft empire had misgivings about rather vague 'meaning'...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sun, Feb 24 2008
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  • Defragmenting without the tears..

    For those of you who are suffering withdrawal since the Vista backroom boys took away the visual part of defragmentation, you can come out now. The nice people at Diskeeper Corporation have just what you need, and prices start from only $29.95 for the Home version. http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Thu, Feb 7 2008
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  • MSCONFIG is not an on/off switch..

    You don't believe me? So go take a look for yourself.. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310560 It is a DIAGNOSTIC tool. It has never been officially designated an on/off switch, but it became common among Windows 9x users to use it as one. The problem stemmed from a small and finite block of resources...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Jan 23 2008
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  • Low Disk Space Warning After Backing Up..

    Preface The general idea behind backups is to create usable retrievable copies of data onto media that is then kept isolated from the computer system until such time as there is a necessity to retrieve any of them. The term 'backup' is also synonymous with 'compression' which leads to...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Jan 19 2008
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  • Clean and learn..

    Remember 'First Aid', 'RegClean', or 'CleanSweep', 'Norton System Doctor', or 'Nuts n Bolts'? If you were a Windows 9x tinkerer, you might. The idea behind them was to aid the computer user in case of problems, and boy did some people have problems!! First Aid...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Dec 26 2007
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  • Page File Placement..

    Page files do not exist purely to use up valuable hard drive real estate. Windows is not the only OS to use a page file. The page file is not part of some underhand Microsoft scheme to force you to go out and buy a larger hard drive. The page file exists to help you, to extend your system beyond the...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Tue, Dec 11 2007
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  • EMERGENCY, EMERGENCY.. MACHINE DOWN!!!.. BREAK OUT THE BACKUPS..

    Prologue Wait up. I hear voices in the wind. ".... I didn't know how to work the program... nobody told me I had to do it... I didn't have any blank CD/DVDs... my friend who is a computer expert told me that it was unnecessary.. I never read all of that crap which pops up when the computer...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Nov 24 2007
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