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Protect your privacy with these five applications

April 25, 2013 10:55am PDT

There are a number of different utilities that you can use to mitigate risk and help protect your privacy.

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Quick Tip: Invoke god mode to take control of settings in Windows 8

March 26, 2013 1:48pm PDT

Control panel settings and configurations are typically scattered all over in Windows 8, unless you know about god mode.

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How do I share folders in Windows 7 with the Shared Folder Wizard?

October 6, 2010 12:21pm PDT

Jack Wallen shows you how to use the Microsoft Windows Shared Folder Wizard to create folders that can be shared with colleagues across the network.

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Quick Tip: Add an Applications folder to the Windows 8 Desktop

April 19, 2013 12:08pm PDT

With the help of a special code, add an applications folder to the Windows 8 Desktop that grants easy access to all programs.

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How do I copy shortcuts to the All Users folders in Vista or Windows 7?

December 2, 2009 11:23am PST

Alan Norton shows you how to copy shortcuts to the All Users folders in Windows 7 - it is not the same procedure as in Windows XP.

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A newbie's guide to Android development

May 11, 2012 8:41pm PDT

William J. Francis covers Android development basics, such as the necessary tools to get started and a typical project hierarchy.

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How to share a folder in Windows Server 2012

October 11, 2012 9:00am PDT

Scott Lowe reports that there are some slight changes with the file-sharing in Windows Server 2012. Here are the steps for sharing a file in the new version.

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Connect Android to Windows and Samba shared directories

April 30, 2012 6:05am PDT

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of connecting your Android tablet to your Windows and Samba shared folders with the help of ES File Explorer.

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10 timesaving tricks for working with Outlook message templates

July 22, 2011 1:05pm PDT

You can save a lot of time and effort if you use templates in Outlook -- and you can save even more time and effort if you put these template techniques to work.

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Reduce the size of the WinSxS folder with vsp1cln.exe and compcln.exe

October 2, 2009 9:14am PDT

Deleting files from the Windows Side-by-side (WinSxS) folder is a bad idea. But, you can shrink the WinSxS folder with vsp1cln.exe and compcln.exe.

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Fine tune the Windows 7 Search Index for better performance

March 31, 2011 10:50am PDT

In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to delve in and begin tuning the Windows 7 Search Index.

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Mac sharing Part 3: Windows in the mix

May 1, 2013 11:27am PDT

This part of the series on Mac sharing shows you how to connect and share files between Macs and Windows machines on your network.

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How do I make Windows 7 HomeGroup content accessible to Vista and XP?

December 21, 2009 10:24am PST

Greg Shultz shows you how to grant Windows XP and Windows Vista systems access to the folder and printers shared in a Windows 7 HomeGroup.

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Quick Tip: Add Google Portable Chrome to your toolkit and make your life easier

May 2, 2013 8:55am PDT

Google Portable Chrome lets you access your bookmarks, extensions and open tabs from any Windows computer. Find out how to make the most of it.

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10 things you should do before, during, and after reinstalling Windows

October 15, 2008 11:19am PDT

There are some very good reasons why you might want to reinstall Microsoft Windows. Alan Norton documents the steps needed to properly reinstall Windows.

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Use Robocopy's multi-threaded feature to quickly back up your data in Windows 7

October 26, 2010 10:58am PDT

Greg Shultz shows you how to take advantage of Robocopy's multi-threaded copy feature to create an exact mirrored duplicate of your user profile folder.

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Eight steps to restore an individual Exchange 2010 mailbox with System Center Data Protection Manager

January 30, 2012 6:00am PST

Exchange admins often have to restore an individual mailbox rather than an entire database. John Joyner shows you eight steps to do this using PowerShell commands and Microsoft System Center DPM.

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Enable Windows 8 File History to protect your data (revisited)

January 25, 2013 12:11pm PST

Greg Shultz shows you how enable File History in Windows 8 and why it is important that you do.

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Two plus ways to transfer files via FTP in Windows

April 28, 2010 8:43am PDT

Alan Norton explains two-plus methods for transferring files via FTP using tools already provided by Microsoft Windows 7 that you may not know about.

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Change Mac permissions via the command line to save time

July 21, 2010 12:31pm PDT

Erik Eckel explains the basics of the ls command, which displays file and folder information on the command line and allows you to edit permissions settings much quicker than using Mac's Finder.