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25+ Articles Found in the Win Users Topic  (or one of the sub-topics in bold above)

		KB Article	KB Topic
74 Hits	KB Post	Mike Prestwood 1. 10 Second Review: Adblock Plus Don't use it until they fix major problems with false positives and until they stop pubicly displaying your email address! 7/10/2010	Online Security
85 Hits	Tip	lowster11 2. Command Prompt From Any Folder Hold down the Shift key and right click on any folder in Windows 7 and select Open command window here. A command prompt will open with the current directory set automatically. 7/2/2010	Windows 7
79 Hits	Article	lowster11 3. Backup Windows XP Windows XP includes its own backup program, although you may need to do some digging to find it.... 6/30/2010	Windows XP
546 Hits	Blog	Wes Peterson 4. Windows 7 Trials and Triumphs This begins the saga of my personal experiences with Windows 7. Although Prestwood IT Sol... 1/19/2010	Windows 7
627 Hits	KB Post	Mike Prestwood 5. Windows 7 Pricing Announced The Windows 7 Home, Professional, and Ultimate editions will retail at a lower price than Vista.... 10/1/2009	Windows 7
545 Hits	KB Post	Mike Prestwood 6. Protect Your Windows Computer Using FREE Tools Protect your computer before it slows down, you lose data, or someone steals information. The bas... 8/18/2009, Updated: 9/1/2009	Win Users
695 Hits	KB Post	Mike Prestwood 7. Speed Up Your Windows Computer for FREE If your computer was fast but is now slow, you can use techniques such as adware removers, defrag... 8/18/2009, Updated: 9/1/2009	Win Users
583 Hits	Tip	Mike Prestwood 8. Show Not Present Hidden Drivers in Device Manager Right click on My Computer and select the Properties menu optio... 7/22/2009	Win Users
582 Hits	Tip	Mike Prestwood 9. Uninstall in Safe Mode By default, you cannot uninstall programs in Safe Mode. Whatever issue you are handling, your fir... 7/21/2009	Windows XP
594 Hits	Tip	Mike Prestwood 10. Find Driver Tip If you know the correct driver is installed on your computer some place but don't remember where... 6/5/2009	Win Users
961 Hits	Link	Wes Peterson 11. Ultimate List of Free Windows XP Software from Microsoft http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1231.entry?wa=wsignin1.0 2/24/2009	Windows XP
919 Hits	Link	Wes Peterson 12. Ultimate List of Free Windows Vista Software from Microsoft http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1844.entry 2/24/2009	Windows Vista
831 Hits	KB Post	Wes Peterson 13. FileZilla: A Great FTP Program File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has many uses, and there are a host of good FTP programs, both commerci... 12/12/2008	Cool Windows Tools
1382 Hits	FAQ	Mike Prestwood 14. Installing Software in Safe Mode Can I install software in Windows safe mode? 6/27/2008	Win Users
1323 Hits	KB Post	Mike Prestwood 15. How to setup a shortcut in Vista To create a shortcut, right click on the deskop and select New | Shortcut. The old ways of altering the properties or even copying existing shortcuts is now very limited. 6/10/2008, Updated: 6/1/2009	Windows Vista
1201 Hits	FAQ	Mike Prestwood 16. Windows Update vs Microsoft Update What is the difference between Windows Update and Microsoft Update? 6/5/2008	Win Users
1105 Hits	KB Post	Mike Prestwood 17. Download Windows Help for Vista and Server 2008 Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) does not ship with Microsft Vista nore with Windows Server 2008 but is available for download. 5/29/2008	Windows Vista
1551 Hits	News	Mike Prestwood 18. Microsoft Gives Windows XP A Limited Reprieve Trying to avoid an exodus to Linux on ultra low-cost PCs, Microsoft will allow discount computer makers to sell XP for an extended time. 4/3/2008	Windows XP
2382 Hits	Error	Mike Prestwood 19. Vista SP1 Rollback Error Service Pack did not install. Reverting changes. 4/2/2008	Windows Vista
8812 Hits	Error	Mike Prestwood 20. Vista SP1 Missing ACPI.SYS file w/ error code of 0xc0000098 Missing critical file ACPI.SYS (error code 0xc0000098). (7 Comments , last by mail ) 3/31/2008, Updated: 1/11/2009	Windows Vista
1955 Hits	News	Mike Prestwood 21. Vista SP1 Is Here, Finally! Of course SP1 fixes some bugs, but more interesting are it's new features! (5 Comments , last by mprestwood ) 3/31/2008, Updated: 6/24/2008	Windows Vista
2013 Hits	KB Post	Wes Peterson 22. Free Vector Drawing: Creative Docs.Net and Inkscape Free Vector Drawing Program. Vector drawing software is more and more important as progra... 3/20/2008	Cool Windows Tools
1604 Hits	KB Post	Wes Peterson 23. Slow Open and Save Dialogs in MS Office When running an Office application, like Word, have you ever encountered maddeningly slow response in the Open or Save dialogs? Here's the cause - and cure. 3/6/2008, Updated: 3/20/2008	Win Users
2236 Hits	Link	Mike Prestwood 24. Primo PDF http://www.primopdf.com/ (2 Comments , last by Wes ) 2/28/2008	Win Users
1330 Hits	FAQ	Mike Prestwood 25. Turn On Offline Files in Vista How do I enable Offline Files in Windows Vista? 2/27/2008	Windows Vista

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