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Remember how Apple blew a lot of good will with their iPhone fans when Apple didn’t include copy & paste and arrogantly claimed it wasn’t needed? Other than background app support (still not available unless you jailbreak), copy/paste was the #1 complaint for the iPhone. Apple finally relented, added copy/paste and iPhone users around the [...]

A Solution to the Vista Problem Windows 7 was developed and released in just three years, and the operating system was basically done when the public beta hit almost a year before. This accelerated timetable was a response to Windows Vista, which was being lambasted by the press, by Microsoft’s competitors, and by consumers, whether [...]

Well here’s something I bet you didn’t expect, apparently if you set your Windows 7 machine to have a solid color background, it will hang for 30 seconds before it actually loads. So if your into having a bleak and barren desktop with just a dull grey background, it may feel like time takes an [...]

If you’ve configured Windows to automatically log you in rather than having to enter a password, you might find it annoying that you still need to enter a password when your PC comes out of sleep mode. Here’s the quick fix.Make Windows 7 Not Require a Password on WakeWindows 7 makes the whole thing a [...]

Microsoft’s new and free security software Microsoft Security Essentials received some raving reviews since its first release as a beta version. The final version of the antivirus software program was released alongside Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7. Microsoft Security Essentials is using Windows Update to update the virus definition files which can be problematic [...]

Windows 7 has some pretty cool new features and one of those is the energy efficiency report. What’s that you ask? It basically lets you find out what is eating up all your battery power and analyze the efficiency of your computer. So how can you run this report? Well, first you need to make [...]

The problem with Windows 7 is that, in many areas, it was rushed. Microsoft did not take a holistic approach to developing the operating system, it’s features and it’s interface. I’ve spoken before about Libraries being an excellent example of this. You can add folders to libraries, even on Homegroup connected PCs, but why can’t [...]

* Mon, 16 Nov 2009 Microsoft is to allow advertisers to reach out to Windows 7 users by utilising the Desktop of its latest operating system. Microsoft is to allow advertisers to push their products to users of Windows 7. A pilot scheme will run until 2010 and advertisers such as 20th Century Fox, Porsche [...]

If your hard disk is cluttered and you are looking for a way to clean some files that are older than any specific date, how would you do it? There are two methods, one by using the default Windows Explorer search feature and the other is using 3rd party tools called Clean Drive and File [...]