Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Features of the new Windows 8

Windows 8 will be the latest Windows OS (operating system) when it is released, probably in September or October. For now we have the Consumer Preview to play with. The Windows 8 Consumer Preview seem like a release candidate to me. It is very polished, very fast and not buggy at all. Windows 8 is [...]

Microsoft has released a new tool to help with their never-ending battle to defeat mal-ware on Windows PCs. Called Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper or MSSS it is a bootable live CD that is just a basic Windows environment with MS Security Essentials on it.

Microsoft’s very good security suite “Security Essentials” will now be offered in Windows Updates. This is a great step forward in making this very good and free antivirus available to everyone not just to the geeks how know where to find it.

Windows Live Sync is a part of the Windows Live Essentials Beta. The old Live Sync would not sync to Skydrive, the new version will. There is one little problem. With a Skydrive account you get 25 GB of storage yet you can only sync 2GB. This seems silly to me. Is Microsoft afraid Skydrive [...]

I really like Skydrive Explorer. It creates a virtual folder so you can drag files into it but if you wished to use Skydrive to backup data automatically you are out of luck.

Windows Maintenance Tips

Posted: April 21, 2010 in Tips
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There is a lot of talk about Windows maintenance. What services should turn off? Which utilities should I use? To sleep or hibernate? Here’s a article from Lifehacker. It is the best article I have seen on the subject.

Microsoft Technet

Posted: April 11, 2010 in Tips
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Download all an use all of Microsoft’s software and use it forever without time limits or feature limits. You can download anything Windows Server, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Windows 7 and everything else.

Essentials

Posted: March 23, 2010 in Software
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Windows 7 is a great OS but a lot of essential software was left out on purpose to keep the basic install streamline. There is no email program like “Outlook Express”. No “Windows Movie Maker”. Frankly, I don’t use either of these but if you needed them you can get these and a whole lot [...]

New Windows Tip

Posted: March 13, 2010 in Tips
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This is a tip from Paul Thurrott‘s Supersite for Windows. You may know the keyboard shortcut for Internet Explorer start fullscreen mode is F11. What you don’t know is the same shortcut works in for Windows Explorer and other applications.  Many other shortcuts work as well. I’ll let Paul tell you more about it.