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did you know: show windows stacked, cascaded or side by side

Posted Monday, October 05, 2009 7:09 PM by drey
someone asked me if there were ways to vertically maximize more than two windows using aero snap (snap one window to the left hand side of the screen and a second to the right hand side dragging the windows or using the windows key + left and right arrow Read More...
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on the road branch office

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 10:29 AM by drey
here’s another thing that i’ve taken for granted for the past three years using windows vista – secure wireless access even in public.  panera is my favorite place to find it and as you can see by the screen shot below even as i post this blog entry, Read More...
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did you know - encrypting your hard drive with bitlocker

Posted Thursday, July 23, 2009 4:19 PM by drey
i've done this so many times i hadn't even noticed that the pause button had been removed from the windows 7 encryption status window! you can still use manage-bde ( now an executable) to pause and resume the encryption (if you begin encrypting and wish Read More...
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did you know: windows key + number to launch pinned taskbar programs

Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:16 PM by drey
i keep on forgetting to demonstrate this great new feature.  today i remembered to show how you can take pinned taskbar programs and reorder them, what i forgot to mention is the windows key + number associated with those pinned apps. so in the example Read More...
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did you know: connecting windows live web activities

Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 5:11 PM by drey
when you are logged into windows live (home.live.com), you can go into your profile – permissions and on the bottom right is web activities to start, i’ve added 5 web activities in alphabetical order:  digg, facebook, pandora, twitter and zune socia Read More...
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did you know: vertical window maximize tip

Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 8:30 AM by drey
in windows 7, if you have a window (like the explorer window shown below) and you move your mouse right above the title bar (so the mouse pointer changes to the double arrows shown), you can double click to vertically maximize the current window. figure Read More...
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did you know - ford fusion hybrid sync vehicle health report

Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:13 PM by drey
so after upgrading to the sync 3.0 software (i know – i haven’t done a post on that yet – sorry!) one of the first features i wanted to test out was the vhr (vehicle health report).  the syncmyride.com website walks you step by step through this Read More...
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did you know - boot from vhd (the step by step guide)

Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:52 PM by drey
so you’ve got windows 7 running, but what about windows server 2008 r2?  it’s 64 bit only and if you’re like me you’ve got interest but won’t be running it daily (i spent some time actually running windows server 2008 with the desktop experience Read More...
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did you know: you can shrink a hard drive from the command line (and in the windows vista/7 setup program?)

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 10:44 AM by drey
friday i posted information about dynamically shrinking a partition from your windows vista or windows 7 installation (making room for another operating system) but what if you are already running windows xp and would like to take advantage of this feature?  Read More...
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did you know: dynamically shrinking a hard drive partition

Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 2:38 PM by drey
i’ve been running windows vista for over 3 1/2 years now (before it was even released publicly) and windows 7 for almost a year.  most of the it professionals, consultants and trainers i speak to feel pretty comfortable and knowledgeable with microsoft Read More...
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