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Handle Solid State Drive The Right Way
Solid-state drive is becoming the favorite of geeks. In few years from now, mechanical-magnetic hard drives will be replaced by SSD. Although solid-state drives are presented to the users in the say as the traditional magnetic hard drives, but they work quite differently. For any...
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No Service Pack 2 For Windows 7
Perhaps serving as further proof that Microsoft is supremely confident in Windows 8 and expects nothing less than success, it’s being reported that Windows 7 will not see a second Service Pack. It’s still unusual for Microsoft to stop after Service Pack 1 but over...
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Installing XP drivers on Vista or 7
1. Downloading latest drivers (v14.19.50) for XP from the manufactures site and extracting them to a separate folder 2. Booting Windows 7 or Vista in the safe mode 4. Then navigate to Device Manager -> Video Adapter (VGA compatible) -> Properties 5. Click Driver -> Update driver -> Browse -> Let me pick -> Display adapters -> Have disk -> give path to the folder...
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Reinstall Windows Update Service
There is a few ways this can be done on Windows 7 and Vista using this great tool Windows 7 & Windows Vista I found this great tool works great http://www.thewindowsclub.com/downloads/Fix%20WU.zip In windows xp I found the Microsoft way worked the best of reinstalling the...
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Implementing and Administering the ActiveX Installer Service
You can use this document to learn how to implement and administer the ActiveX® Installer Service in Windows Vista®. Why the ActiveX Installer Service? Many organizations must install ActiveX controls on their desktops in order to ensure that a variety of programs that they must use on...
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