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shrink a volume in windows 7 automagically

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:04 PM by drey
woo hoo!  you can shrink and grow a partition (even the one windows 7 is running on from disk management – one of my favorite really geeky tips) Read More...
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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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foxit reader

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:55 PM by drey
foxit software has one of my must have installations after the many installs and upgrades i've done of windows 7 over the past year. i typically have occasional need to open a pdf file, and foxit reader does that job well, but what i really like is the Read More...
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another install fest (thursday), top windows 7 utilities and 3 more installations today (friday)

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 10:42 AM by drey
thursday my counterpart dan orum led our second install fest, i did an internal tips and tricks session and then dan presented at the chicago windows user group on the top windows 7 utilities. we'll post the top utilities at our cwug site - cwug.groups.live.com 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: 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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tip for windows vista

Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:53 PM by drey
in windows 7 beta there is a boot to vhd feature which allows you to start a vhd and may avoid the old school option of dual boot. however with windows vista there are a couple great things with dual boot. 1) if you dual boot windows vista with an earlier Read More...
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aero shortcut keys and another helpful tip

Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 12:41 AM by drey
i was listening to paul thurrott's windows weekly podcast on my way to wisconsin today and learned a new set of keyboard shortcuts in windows 7. to maximize the current window, press windows key + up arrow. when i arrived in wisconsin, i met a trainer Read More...
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windows vista performance

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:41 PM by drey
lately i've been playing around with various tweaks on my two main windows vista computers. one has 4 gb of ram and the other has 2 gb of ram. on both computers i ran without a pagefile for a while and the 2 gb system occasionally popped up the system Read More...
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