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Microsoft To Kill Windows XP SP2 Support

December 8, 2009
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Microsoft is reminding customers that the end date for support for Windows XP Service Pack 2, as well as some other versions of the Windows operating system, is already on the horizon.
“The company will officially end support Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Client on July 13, 2010, [...]

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Network Lights lets you monitor network activity from your keyboard

December 7, 2009
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Network Lights is a Windows program, which blinks keyboard LEDs Light Emitting Diode indicating outgoing and incoming network packets on network interface. Network Lights lets you monitor network activity upload/download from your keyboard ScrollLock and NumLock indicators. Each LED will flicker when network traffic is detected.
“I’d recommend against running Network Lights on a laptop which [...]

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Even Microsoft says IE6 must Die!

December 1, 2009
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Stephen Shankland over at CNET informs us that Microsoft is actively urging IE 6 users to upgrade. (If they allowed Windows 2000 users to upgrade to IE7 they wouldn’t be in this mess. They created their own monster in my opinion.)
Microsoft has begun a campaign to actively urge users [...]

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Device Doctor – Free Driver Update Software for Windows

November 28, 2009
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Device Doctor is a freeware/donationware Windows application that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for your devices. It also locates drivers for “unidentified devices” in the Windows Device Manager. Device Doctor queries their own manufacturer driver database and immediately fetches the correct driver files for your [...]

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Buffalo announces world’s first USB 3.0 12x Blu-ray burner

November 28, 2009
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Japanese computer hardware company Buffalo has announced the world’s first 12x Blu-ray burner, which supports USB 3.0 on top of that. The BR-X1216U3 is backward compatible with USB 2.0 but will burn your Blu-rays with “just” 7x speed in that case.
You can only use it with a Windows machine XP/Vista/7. But actually there are no [...]

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Stick with XP? Windows 7 Battery Life Worse on Netbooks

November 13, 2009
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K. T. Bradford over at Laptop Mag reports :
Back in August when we started testing the final version of Windows 7, we noticed that several netbooks didn’t last as long on a charge with the new OS installed as with Windows XP. Microsoft claimed that Win 7 notebooks would see longer battery life than Vista, [...]

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Turn Windows 7 Into a WiFi Router In 5 Minutes for, get this: Free

November 11, 2009
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Jolie O’Dell over at ReadWriteWeb posted a great article about Connectify.me
They’ve sussed out how to make any Windows 7 computer into a WiFi hotspot. Since we just installed Windows 7 on a spare laptop, we figured it was about time to make Windows do something cool, so we installed the app.
We were quite literally up [...]

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Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash

November 7, 2009
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Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad tells us that making a bootable USB flash drive for Windows Vista and Windows 7 isn’t all that tricky, but it’s always nice to find an app that simplifies things. Not only does WinToFlash make the process about as easy as it can get, but it can also create Windows [...]

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It’s Gettin’ Hot in Hur! Monitor Your CPU with Core Temp

November 3, 2009
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Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature and is now Windows Vista and Windows 7 ready! (x86 and x64)
The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature [...]

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