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Windows XP Still The Most Widespread Windows OS
After the reasonable success of Windows 7 and long after the train wreck that was Windows Vista, PC users are keeping it old school, sticking with Windows XP as their operating system of choice. Microsoft’s most recent operating system, Windows 7, came out of the gate flying and by late June of this year, the OS laid claim to over 150 million licenses being sold. However, even with such strong...
Warning! Vulnerability in Windows 7 (64-bit) Opens Door to Security Bug
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users could be exposed to malware attacks, Microsoft has warned users on May 18, 2010. The announcement, made on Microsoft’s Security Response Center blog, involves the Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) and affects Windows 7 x64, Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium operating systems.
This is not the first time Windows 7 was found...
HP ‘iPad Killer’ Slate Details Leaked: $549 Keyboard-less Netbook
At height of the tablet revolution, once again the mysterious HP Slate appears, this time bringing some leaked info to the blogosphere. An apparent leaked internal document from HP show us what this “iPad Killer” is up against. Just a few hours after HP unveiled its latest video telling us almost nothing about the company’s upcoming slate PC, the folks at Engadget got their hands...
How to Enable the God Mode in Win 7 and Why it is Overrated
A rather goofy “trick” has been making the rounds over the last couple days, which was described by Ina Fried on CNET as follows:
“By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard drive partition.”
Apparently people decided...
How to Speed up Your Win 7 Computer
With the enhancement in technology, there is no time to wait. As long as the speed of the Computer (Desktop PC or laptop) is concerned, it can be boosted up by performing some small tweaks. In this post I’m going to explain the tweaks to be done in Windows based computers (Win 7 particularly) for enhancing the speed of operation.
It’s time to get rid of the unused data – The Disk Clean Up...
It’s almost Official now! Windows 8 to Launch In 2012
Windows 7 isn’t out the door yet, but Microsoft seem to be making good progress with Windows 8. It is interesting to note that Windows 7 has only been on general release for a month and yet many people are already eyeing up future iterations of the Windows operating system, including Microsoft itself. As it appears Mayan calamities aside, the next Windows should be here in just about three years!
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Windows 7 vulnerable to 80% viruses
If you are one of the users like us who just recently upgraded to Win 7 then here is a disturbing news. Windows 7 is still virus vulnerable, warns a security specialist. SophosLabs reported in its security blog that a test Windows 7 system on a clean PC was affected by 80 per cent of viruses. This is despite Microsoft’s claim about Windows 7 being more secure. With User Account Control (UAC) turned...
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Microsoft Releases Biggest Patch, Fixes Windows 7
Microsoft Corp issued its biggest software patch on record on Tuesday to fix a range of security issues in its programs, including the yet to be released Windows 7 operating system.
In a monthly update sent to users of its software, Microsoft released 13 security bulletins, or patches, to address 34 vulnerabilities it identified across its Windows, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, Office and other products.
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