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Windows 7 on my Sony Viao

Tonight I installed Windows 7 in my Sony Viao laptop.  I had XP on the laptop so I was not able to do an upgrade. As a result I had to do a complete reinstall. The reinstall took 30 minutes. The install was basically painless. I had to manually download the Vista Drivers(Windows 7 uses them) ...

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Virtual Machine Comparisons

Currently at home I am running the Windows 7 Beta as my operating system. I wanted to run Windows XP Pro in order to run some legacy stuff I have. I decided to setup a Virtual Machine. Virtual Machine software is special software which Lets you run an operating system within an operating system. I looked ...

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Windows 7 Issues Cleanup

I have figured out one of my Windows 7 issues and put a work around in for 2. They are as follows: 1. Brother Multifunction printer - I reinstalled the software and drivers and this resolved the problem. 2. Netgear SC 101 Nas Box - I am accessing it on my Windows 7 pc via an XP virtual ...

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Windows 7 Public Beta Issues

I have been running the Windows Public Beta for a week and have run into 3 issues which I believe are all driver related: 1. Having issues with Active Sync syncing my Samsung Jack Mobile phone to my pc. 2. I can not see my Netgear SC-101 NAS drive. 3. I can not use the network scanner on ...

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Windows 7 Public Beta Install

Well I installed the Windows 7 Public Beta today. It went like a charm with one exception which I will talk about later. The Beta is a free download from the Microsoft Web Site and is only available for a couple of more weeks. In order to download the Beta you must have a Windows live account ...

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Windows 7

Well Microsoft has kept no secret that Windows 7 is almost ready. The launch is headed before the school buying season is 2009. This just about kills Vista which I really like as an operating system. A couple of reasons for this: 1. Microsoft is losing share to Apple due to Anit Vista marketing campaigns. 2. Vista's hardware ...

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