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Memorial Day

May 27th, 2010 · Comments Off

May this Memorial Day not be about burgers, hotdogs, skiing and picnics, may we instead stop, remember, cry, share, resolve, help, share and regain strength through sadness, courage through heartbreak and resolve through patriotism. III

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Customizing Windows 7 System Restore

May 6th, 2010 · Comments Off

This artilcle was taken from Lockergnome. I felt it covered and important topic and wanted to pass it along. Here is the link to the origional article. http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2010/04/14/customize-system-restore-in-windows-7/
 
Many of us have, at one point or another, installed a program or made some change that was harmful to our computers. For such times, you can use [...]

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Wireless N Standard

March 30th, 2010 · Comments Off

Over the last month I have been working on an article about Wireless N. My last article on this subject was in October 2007.
My problem is that I start getting too geeky, even for me so I stop and come back to it later only to trash it and start over and then get too [...]

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Preventing Windows Update from Rebooting your computer Part 1

February 9th, 2010 · Comments Off

In my previous post about 64 bit computers I mentioned a time when Microsoft Automatic Updates ran and rebooted a computer of mine while compiling a video. Since then another person I know told me of the same issue and I have received many calls over the last year about “lost” data that occurred when [...]

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