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I am not sure how I got this 2.2 GB folder on my “C”  partition but it was not necessary. With free space on my “C” partition down to 5% it was time to clean house. The Vista instructions will work as written if you run the Disk Cleanup utility as the Administrator. If you [...]

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I think I can finally say that I have finished the upgrade, Free Cell is installed . This summer I installed Windows 7 RC and was pleased with the performance and the look and feel on my 3 year old laptop. It would have been nice if I could have just upgraded  the RC [...]

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Consider the following scenario:

You connect a Windows Vista-based computer to a network.
A router or other device that is configured as a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server is configured on the network.
The router or the other device does not support the DHCP BROADCAST flag.

In this scenario, Windows Vista cannot obtain an [...]

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Last weekend I took the plunge and installed Windows 7 RC. The hardest part was freeing up some disk space and partitioning the hard drive. After a few defrag runs I was ready to partition. Dual booting is the way to go. There are no special tricks. Just let Windows 7 install in the unpartitioned [...]

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I made a couple of minor changes to the provided script and I got Script all data of a table – SQLServerCentral to work with SQL 2000. I like the idea of creating scripts to transfer/update/re-create tables. I have been using Excel to create scripts to update shipping costs for some time. Nice work Florian!

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For the last couple of months I have been trying to fix an old ThinkPad that failed on us. It was a low priority item but we were pretty sure we would need it fixed eventually. In an unfortunate sequence of events the battery ran down, the LCD failed, and the disk/registry got corrupted. Under [...]

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