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  • Easy Windows 8.1 is Ready for You!

    My latest book, Easy Windows 8.1, is now available in print and various e-book versions. It offers full-color visual step-by-step instructions for Windows 8.1’s new and improved features (travel, search, digital photo shooting and editing, and more) along with instructions designed for both touchscreen and mouse/keyboard users. Grab a free sample chapter at the Que Publishing…

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  • Windows 7 Feature Focus: XP Mode

    “XP Mode (also known as Virtual Windows XP) enables some editions of Windows 7 to run Windows XP in a virtualized window, and to run individual Windows XP-compatible apps in a virtualized environment directly from the Windows 7 Start menu.”

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  • Lighten Up Vista with vLite – Now on Newsstands

    My “how-to” article on how to use the cool new vLite utility to create a lean, mean, customized, full-auto-install Vista SP1 installation can be found in the May 2008 issue of Maximum PC, now on newsstands. Enjoy! Get a taste of what vLite can do from my original blog posting, which inspired the article.

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  • Question: What do Mach 10, Booster and Bob Have in Common?

    Answer: they’re three of the most obscure products developed by a certain West Coast technology company: Mach 10 was a processor board upgrade for the IBM PC Booster was a mouse, clock, and memory upgrade for the IBM PCjr Bob was a short-lived friendly front-end for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 And that company was Microsoft…

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