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Script: Save all Internet Explorer tabs as Favorites

January 6, 2012

We spend a lot of time in web browsers and if you’re like me, you probably have a gazillion tabs open – your work stuff, your social media sites, sites for e-learning, e-banking, e-commerce, a few blogs, publications and news sites, sites you’re trying to quote material or save useful tidbits from. Suddenly, the browser [...]

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Installing Windows from a USB Drive, recovery partitions and TRIM support

February 28, 2011

USB flash drives have been a welcome development for computer storage — they offer a great alternative to optical drives (aka CD/DVD drives). The form factor makes them easy to carry around, they’re faster than optical drives, and you can rewrite/reuse them as many times as you wish. They’re also more reliable than optical media. [...]

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Microsoft: Let the numbers do the talking

June 28, 2010

It’s been an eventful few weeks in technology. The mainstream and tech media (and fanboys’) euphoria over Apple surpassing Microsoft’s market capitalization (i.e. price per share x number of shares) hasn’t completely died yet. Meanwhile, we’ve seen Microsoft’s Project Natal technology bear fruit as Microsoft Kinect, available for pre-order now and coming soon to a [...]

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Windows 7 Crosses the 150 Million Mark

June 23, 2010

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced it sold 100 million copies of Windows 7 in 6 months (see Windows 7 reaches the 100 million mark). A few weeks later, an update from Brandon LeBlanc— Windows 7 has now sold 150 million copies! More in 150 Million Licenses of Windows 7 Sold, Windows Live Betas Announced [...]

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Microsoft Office, Welcome to the cloud

June 8, 2010

Micrsoft Office is live in the cloud! In a blog post (read Office is now live on SkyDrive on the Windows blog), Microsoft’s Jason Moore announced the launch of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive— Microsoft’s free cloud-based storage service, which provides users up to 25 Gb. of storage space to store documents, photos and videos. [...]

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Windows 7 reaches the 100 million mark

April 27, 2010

Ten days after Windows 7′s October 22 launch, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said: Certainly we’ve seen initial sales be fantastic. The first ten days were bigger than the first ten days of XP or Vista or any other Windows launch that we have done. All Things Digital’s John Paczkowski responded with Well, What Did You [...]

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Cloned machines and duplicate SIDs

December 8, 2009

It’s been over 4 years since I wrote about the duplicate SID issue in SID error on cloned Virtual Server / VPC / VMWare OSes. I recommended using the NewSID utility from Sysinternals to fix the cloned machine. Hyper-V wasn’t around back then, and looking back it seems incredible that many of us survived without [...]

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Prevx Apologizes: So-Called Windows ‘Black Screen’ not caused by Windows Update

December 2, 2009

Interestingly, after reporting last Friday ‘Black Screen woes could affect millions on Windows 7, Vista and XP’, and causing a furor amongst IT pros, users and the media, Prevx apologized for claiming a patch applied by Windows Update was the cause of the so-called ‘Black Screen of Death’. In last week’s post, Prevx stated: If [...]

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Windows Search: Rebuilding the Index on Windows 7

September 30, 2009

When you use Outlook 2007 and later in Cached Exchange Mode, the Instant Search feature uses the content indexes created by Windows Search (formerly known as Windows Desktop Search). When searching in online mode, Outlook uses the content indexes created by Exchange Search on the Exchange server (Exchange 2007 and later). If the index created [...]

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The ‘Catastrophic’ Windows 7 bug and security vulnerability that never was

August 10, 2009

Perhaps I should’ve used a different headline for this post. Something like “InfoWorld’s conspiracy to derail the Windows 7 product launch”. But that would be giving in to exactly the temptation I want to highlight— the one many bloggers, writers, and editors fall victim to, or otherwise find hard to resist in the quest for [...]

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