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Your Windows 7 migration problems solvedThe Windows 7 rollout has gone extraordinarily well, with millions of machines upgraded in just a few weeks. But some Win7 upgraders have encountered problems ranging from installation headaches to missing games to confusing — boy howdy, really confusing — licensing questions. Read more »
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Clean-install Windows 7 from the upgrade discTopping a long list of readers' Windows 7 questions is whether you can use the upgrade disc to perform a clean-install of the new OS. You may be surprised to discover that in Windows 7 there's no difference between the "upgrade" and "full" DVDs and — just as with Vista — the cheaper upgrade version can indeed be used to perform a clean-install. November 12, 2009
Find safe-browser technologies that really workThe major browsers and security programs all tout their ability to warn you about malware sites before you visit them, but do any of these early-warning systems really do the trick? Experts say they're all useful, but none provides a silver bullet — and any browser-security product's claims of superiority are extremely difficult to verify. November 5, 2009
The pros and cons of switching to Windows 7If you're still sitting on the fence about upgrading to Windows 7 — after all, it's been widely available for all of a few hours now — we'd like to regale you with eight reasons to jump in with both feet. We'll also tell you three possible reasons for keeping the new OS on the shelf — for a while, at least. October 22, 2009
Press delete: the risk of outsourcing your dataA recent failure affecting T-Mobile's Sidekick service caused thousands of customers to lose their personal contact information. There's nothing new about servers crashing, and something like this is sure to happen again, so you need to protect yourself against such losses in the future. October 15, 2009
Sponsored search results lead to malwareThe ads served by Bing and Google along with your search results are linking more and more often to sites trying to infect your machine. Neither Bing nor Google effectively prescreens these bogus advertisers, so it's up to us to detect and avoid them. October 8, 2009
Get your system ready for a Windows 7 upgradeRemoving unneeded applications and making sure your hardware devices will work with Windows 7 are good things to do before you purchase and install the new operating system. A merciless approach — ruthlessly excising software clutter prior to the OS upgrade — will help ensure that the process goes smoothly. October 1, 2009
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Brian Livingston, editorial director of WindowsSecrets.com, is co-author of Windows Vista Secrets, Windows Me Secrets, and nine other books in the Windows Secrets series. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 6th annual Internet Content Summit in New York City on May 8, 2006.
Fred Langa is editor-at-large. His LangaList Newsletter merged with Windows Secrets on Nov. 16, 2006.
Prior to that, Fred was editor of Byte Magazine (1987 to 1991) and editorial director of CMP Media (1991 to 1996),
overseeing Windows Magazine and others.
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