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How to schedule Windows 7 to shutdown

By on Monday, December 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Many people ask me how they can get their computer to shutdown at night automatically. With windows XP I used a nice little freeware program that would sit in the tray, but with Windows 7 it is much easier. There is a task scheduler built in that you can take advantage of. Click on Start>Control [...]

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How to install memory MSI U135 DX

By on Saturday, May 21st, 2011 | 8 Comments

The U135 DX Netbook is a Atom based Netbook that is not too bad for a portable PC but in my opinion 1Gig RAM is not enough for a machine running a Windows 7 (albeit starter edition) operating system. So, what options do I have to throw more memory in? Not too many. It comes [...]

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Outlook 2007 email to Windows Live Mail easy guide

By on Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | 33 Comments

Here’s a pretty easy guide to move your Outlook 2003/2007 email to Windows live mail (found in windows 7). As a background, I found plenty of guides for Outlook Express (which is actually easier) but very little for Outlook. Why did I want to do this? A friend bought a new laptop which had a [...]

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Custom Login Wallpaper Windows 7

By on Monday, May 24th, 2010 | 3 Comments

The wallpaper presented to you at the logon screen in Windows 7 gets pretty boring quickly. Easy to change? Relatively. You can find some third party tools, or have a go yourself with the instructions below: 1. Press win+r key and Type Regedit at run prompt 2. Locate following registry key HK Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background 3. [...]

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Windows 7 trial

By on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

The has been a lot of hype about Windows 7 over the last few months, and with the availability of the RC release (that expires next year), more people have had the chance to trial the latest OS from Microsoft. And might I say justified hype. I personally have found it a good step up [...]

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