Archive for March 7th, 2011

Infographic: Facebook on the way to world domination

Social networks have become a mainstream activity for Internet users across the globe Check out this Infographic on The World Map of Social Networks. Facebook dominates North America, Western Europe,..

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Performance: Windows 7 works with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0

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2nd generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors work with Windows 7 to constantly monitor software load and temperature/electrical limits. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 delivers extra processor speed when you need it.

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Mystery Microsoft Announcement Coming March 15th

Microsoft is not typically like Apple Inc. in that they do not create these mysterious announcements and unveils at a whim. Microsoft tends to make product announcements at trade shows and major tech events like MIX and CES

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Create a XP style desktop toolbar in Windows 7 with Coolbarz

In Windows XP, one could create a toolbar and dock it to the top of the screen and move all one’s desktop icons to it, so that your desktop remained clean and yet you had easy access to all.

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How to Create a Windows 7 x86/x64 Install DVD

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The other day I wrote about a useful tool that can modify your Windows 7 installation DVD ISO file so that you can install any edition of Windows from it.  This method, while simple and easy, still meant that you had to have seperate 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) installation DVDs though.  Is it even possible to have the x86 and x64 editions of Windows 7 on the same disc?  The great news here is yes it is and I’d like to thank fellow MVP Alexis Zhang for providing the instructions on how to do it.

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Windows 7 – Making UAC more secure

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Read: In this tutorial, I show you how to beef up the UAC security by making it ask for a password instead of just ‘yes/no’.

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Can you share 32-bit and 64-bit Roaming User Profiles in Windows 7?

Roaming user profiles in Windows operating systems allow a user with a computer joined to a Windows Server domain to log on to any computer on the same network and access their documents. The idea is..

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