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Posts Tagged system

Windows and OS X: Not As Differen’t As You’d Think

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In 2006, Microsoft released Windows Vista. It was supposed to be great but it was delivered years late, and when it finally released it was a slow, buggy mess that no one wanted to use. It wanted all of your memory, and it wouldn’t run well on the computer you already had without significant upgrades. People went out of their way to use its predecessor, since it was consistently faster and more compatible with their applications.

Let me type that paragraph again, with a few subtle changes: In 2001, Apple released Mac OS X 10.0. It was supposed to be great but it was delivered years late, and when it finally released it was a slow, buggy mess that no one wanted to use. It wanted all of your memory, and it wouldn’t run well on the computer you already had without significant upgrades. People went out of their way to use its predecessor, since it was consistently faster and more compatible with their applications.

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Window 7 Maintenance Tools Part 1

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Introducing Windows 7  Maintenance tools

This is part of a series of articles about maintaining your computer using Windows 7 Maintenance Tools. Just as you have to maintain your car on a regular basis, it also important to perform regular maintenance checks on your computer. Windows 7 provides several tools to help you do this. Three are located in the System Tools sub-folder in the Accessories menu. The other is found in the Control Panel.

The Old System Tools

In the previous versions of Windows, namely Windows XP and Windows Vista, four basic maintenance tools were available. They were Disk Cleanup, Disk Restore, and Disk Defragmenter. Another essential tool was the Add and Remove Programs. This feature is found within the Control Panel.

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New nVidia drivers released, showcase another strength of Windows 7

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nvidiaGood news for people with nVidia graphics cards – today, the manufacturer released its 191.07 graphics drivers for all desktop graphics cards. As with the last few releases, these drivers fully support both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7.

These drivers support the usual goodies for users of cards in the GeForce 8 series or above – namely, PhysX, CUDA, WDDM 1.1, and DirectCompute, a series of technologies geared toward making your graphics card do more than play the latest games.

So what? It’s just another driver release, right? Well, that in itself is remarkable, and it shows just how far ahead Windows 7 is of Windows Vista.

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How To Configure a Virtual Machine in Windows 7

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In a previous How To, we discussed how to set up the Virtual PC console in order to use a Virtual Machine. Virtual Machines allow businesses to set up test environments, a sandbox, in which an application or even a network will not interfere with the production environment. Indeed the virtual machine can be used along side a production environment and real live applications will not be affected.

For this How To, we will add a Sql Server 2005 virtual machine that was downloaded from Microsoft.

Location of Virtual Machine Hard Disk Drives

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If you don’t know what you are doing, stop selling businesses VoIP!!

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angry-on-the-phoneI have seen it time and time again.  A small business with multiple phone lines, wants to save money by switching over to VoIP.

The business owner, usually not knowing anything about the technology other than it can save them money on phone bills, typically hires an outside consultant to come in and revamp their inner office workings.

Equipment is ordered the system is built and installed, and everything seems like it is working.

Then the problems creep up…  Call quality issues, from echo, to voice stutter, to the complete inability to make a call to specific phone numbers or making calls at all, render the newly installed system virtually unusable in a functioning day to day business.

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