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Windows Vista Home Edition Password Problem

June 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Chances are that nearly everyone who wants to convert from Windows XP to Vista on their home computers has already done so. If that is your case, the rest of this article won’t be news. But if you are thinking of upgrading or have done so recently, you may run into the same problem I [...]

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Outlook 2000 to Windows Mail

November 6th, 2007 · Comments Off

In last month’s story about my new computer, the task of switching to Windows Mail on Vista from Outlook 2000 on XP remained on my To Do list. It was accomplished in about two hours after taking the suggestion of my friend Terry. As mentioned earlier, there is no one step path between these two. [...]

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The Joy and Pain of a New Computer

October 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

A few months ago Patty’s computer, a seven year old Dell 4100, crashed with the dreaded BSOD. When it came back up, there was an ominous warning in the Windows System Event log with this Description: “The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and [...]

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