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	<title>Ed Tittel :: Author, Editor, Expert Witness</title>
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		<title>Disk2VHD Is Just What the Doctor Ordered for Machine Upgrades and Migrations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks and Tweaks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[keep old systems around in VHD format]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody who&#8217;s followed my Windows experiences and commentary already knows I think the Sysinternals guys (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, primarily, but also a host of others over the years) hung the moon when it comes to great tools and utilities. I was recently pondering how to get over the &#8220;What did I forget?&#8221; hump in &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/disk2vhd-is-just-what-the-doctor-ordered-for-machine-upgrades-and-migrations.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Great Product for Recycling 2.5&#8243; Notebook Drives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[5.25" drive bay accomodates 4 2.5" notebook drives quite nicely]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great product for recycling notebook drives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SSD widget for MacBook Air reports SSD temps!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past quarter, I&#8217;ve replaced the boot drives on my three primary notebook PCs with el-cheapo ($149) OCZ-3 Agility 120 GB SSD drives. In turn, that has left me with three 500 GB 2.5&#8243; drives that I can still use, but no longer want for primary notebook HDs. That left me casting about for &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/great-product-for-recycling-2-5-notebook-drives.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Three Notebook SSD Upgrades</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters from the Ed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks and Tweaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win7View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[replace notebook HDs with SSDs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[significant speed-ups after switch to SSDs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I finally got my three production notebooks upgraded from conventional spinning hard disks to SSDs. All three of the source drives were 7,200 RPM SATA II drives: two from Seagate (one a Momentus plain-vanilla, the other a Momentus XT), along with a Hitachi 7K500 model. Of the three, the Momentus XT was far &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/a-tale-of-three-notebook-ssd-upgrades.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>LensPen LapTop Pro Ultra Cleaning Kit</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/lenspen-laptop-pro-ultra-cleaning-kit.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters from the Ed]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[$10 cleaning kit great for PC/laptop cleaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LensPen LapTop Pro Ultra cleaning kit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then I&#8217;ll get a request from a vendor to take a look at their products and report on my experiences. Over three weeks ago, a package from Canada showed up at my door, including the LensPen LapTop Pro Ultra Notebook Cleaning Kit. As the following photo from Amazon (where you can pick &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/lenspen-laptop-pro-ultra-cleaning-kit.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another Nice System Drive Cleanup Maneuver: DriverStoreExplorer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks and Tweaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win7View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DriverStoreExplorer is a nice tool for pruning unneeded or unwanted Windows 7 drivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prune unnecessary drivers to recover system disk space on Windows 7]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my continuing quest to find more and better ways to slim Windows 7 down on disk, so as to make the most of smaller, more affordable SSDs, I&#8217;ve come across another footprint reducing technique. Exploring space consumption with my favorite visual tool, WinDirStat, I observed that the Windows FileRepository directory (C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository) consumes a fair &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/another-nice-system-drive-cleanup-maneuver-driverstoreexplorer.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Be Prepared for Windows 8 Hyper-V Gotcha</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/be-prepared-for-windows-8-hyper-v-gotcha.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks and Tweaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win7View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maybe all machines that run Windows 7 wil be able to run Windows 8 but many of them won't run Hyper-V!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 8 Hyper-V adds serious hardware requirements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled into an interesting potential &#8220;gotcha&#8221; as regards Windows 8 and its much-ballyhooed support for Hyper-V (see Steven Sinofsky&#8217;s Building Windows 8 blog entitled &#8220;Bringing Hyper-V to &#8216;Windows 8&#8242;&#8221; for more information) while researching an article on this topic for SearchWindowsEnterpriseDesktop.com this weekend. Although Microsoft has claimed in the past that Windows 8 will &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/be-prepared-for-windows-8-hyper-v-gotcha.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Noodling on System Drive Space-Saving: Move those VHDs!</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/more-noodling-on-system-drive-space-saving-move-those-vhds.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks and Tweaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win7View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[move VHDs to free up system/boot drive space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relocate Windows XP Mode VHD file]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On my continuing quest to save space on the C:/System/Boot drive on my Windows PCs — mostly so I can maximize the value and utility of my desire for SSD speed without forking over $500-600 for a sizable enough drive (256 GB or larger) so I don&#8217;t have to worry about saving space — I&#8217;ve kept &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/more-noodling-on-system-drive-space-saving-move-those-vhds.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nvidia: Why Do I Need 3D by Default?</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/nvidia-why-do-i-need-3d-by-default.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/nvidia-why-do-i-need-3d-by-default.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks and Tweaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win7View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trimming down on unneed graphics drivers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why install 3D and PhysX if you don't use them?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I&#8217;m wondering out loud why nVidia finds it necessary to load my desktop up with the PhysX game accelerator, and various 3D drivers by default when I use none of those things. I know, I know: they want as many people as possible to use this &#8220;exiciting new technology.&#8221; But I&#8217;m about as &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/nvidia-why-do-i-need-3d-by-default.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting tips and tweaks for PST file cleanup &amp; optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[repair first then compact for best PST clean-ups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ScanPST.exe fixes PST files]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I admit it. I&#8217;m a little bit obsessive about maintaining maximum free space on the 80 GB putative (74.5 GB actual size) Intel X25-M SSD I use as the system drive for my production PC. In my never-ending quest to keep things pared down to the absolute minimum, I will occasionally resort to cleaning &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/interesting-tips-and-tweaks-for-pst-file-cleanup-optimization.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8220;If it ain&#8217;t broke&#8230;&#8221; worth heeding, even if it&#8217;s dumb luck?</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/is-if-it-aint-broke-worth-heeding-even-if-its-dumb-luck.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks and Tweaks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[temperamental Win7 production system suddently behaving itself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7 32- to 64-bit upgrade on hold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody who follows my system blog knows that my current production system is probably best described as temperamental. Since upgrading to Windows 7 in August of 2009, it&#8217;s been a heckofalot better than its previous life under Vista, to be sure, but I&#8217;ve had my share of ups and downs with this collection of hardware &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/is-if-it-aint-broke-worth-heeding-even-if-its-dumb-luck.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes, When Things Look Broken, They&#8217;re Merely Discombobulated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters from the Ed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[@EdTittel back online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[my faith in Twitter gets a boost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter suspension reverse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you read my last blog post &#8220;Booted Off Twitter! No Due Process, Either&#8230;&#8221; you&#8217;ll get a chance to review my recent tale of woe that recounts how, upon having my @EdTittel twitter account suspended, I initially begged and pleaded to have that suspension reversed, to no avail. This morning, while I was chatting on &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/blog/sometimes-when-things-look-broken-theyre-merely-discombobulated.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Booted Off Twitter! No Due Process, Either&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/blog/booted-off-twitter-no-due-process-either.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters from the Ed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lack of due process on Twitter account suspension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new twitter handle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opaque and arbitrary enforcement of The Twitter Rules]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I tried to login to Twitter on Saturday only to be informed that my account had been suspended by Twitter itself. Once the panic subsided, I decided to dig in and try to find out what had happened, and to try to get my account reinstated. What ensued over the next three days can only &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/blog/booted-off-twitter-no-due-process-either.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wanna get WiMAX Up &amp; Running on Your Dell or Alienware laptop? Here&#8217;s how&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/wanna-get-wimax-up-running-on-your-dell-or-alienware-laptop-heres-how.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks and Tweaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win7View]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I took delivery of my snappy new and way cool Dell Alienware M11x R3 laptop last Thursday, August 4, but it wasn&#8217;t until this afternoon (August 9) that I finished a key step in making best use of this machine. I finally got my WiMAX account turned on with wireless service provider Clear. Although the &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/wanna-get-wimax-up-running-on-your-dell-or-alienware-laptop-heres-how.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Sheds Interesting Light on Win7 Anytime Upgrade for MX11</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/twitter-sheds-interesting-light-on-win7-anytime-upgrade-for-mx11.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win7View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dell Alienware MX11 laptop kicks butt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interesting and fast Win7 Anytime Upgrade for MX11 laptop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[various observations about Anytime Upgrade from Win7 Home Premium to Ulimate on Dell MX11 laptop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the process of revising my college textbook Guide to TCP/IP for Course Technology/Cengage Learning right now, going from a third edition published in 2006 to a fourth edition that will bear a copyright date of 2012 by the time it rolls off the presses early next summer. This time, there will be lots of changes &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/twitter-sheds-interesting-light-on-win7-anytime-upgrade-for-mx11.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Growing and Returning Interest in IT Certification</title>
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		<comments>http://www.edtittel.com/blog/growing-and-returning-interest-in-it-certification.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[IT certification biz appears headed for a turnaround]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s often said that everything in the IT industry comes and goes in cycles. I have to agree with this notion: after working in the industry for over 30 years now, I&#8217;ve seen several waves of client/server, thin client/fat client, remote, and distributed technologies and APIs come and go (remember &#8220;diskless workstations?&#8221; &#8220;set-top boxes?&#8221; &#8220;videotex?&#8221;). &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/blog/growing-and-returning-interest-in-it-certification.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon (I Hope): Win7 32- to 64-bit Conversion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[production machine scheduled for long-needed switch to Win7 x64]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Win7 32- to 64-bit migration way overdue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got the additional 8 GB of DDR2-800 RAM I ordered for my primary production system —a QX9650-based Quad Core system built around a Gigabyte  X38-DQ6 mobo with an Intel X25M 80GB SSD and nVidia 275 GTX graphics card. That means that I&#8217;m going to snapshot the current 32-bit version of that system into &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/coming-soon-i-hope-win7-32-to-64-bit-conversion.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>About Ed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Tittel has spent over 30 years in the computing industry. He’s worked as a software developer and manager, a networking consultant, a trainer and course developer, and a technical evangelist. He&#8217;s worked for companies that include Burroughs, Schlumberger, Excelan, Novell, IBM/Tivoli and NetQOS (now part of CA). He also ran a content factory named LANWrights from 1994-2004, and &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/about/about-ed.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Site, New Look, Same Mission!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers: This weekend, my Webmaster (Rebekkah Hilgraves, the lovely and talented proprietress of SheTech) and I decided to make the switch from the old EdTittel.com Website to the new site you&#8217;re looking at right now. Along the way, we made lots of interesting platform changes and design decisions. What you&#8217;re looking at right now &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/blog/new-site-new-look-same-mission.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The new EdTittel.com is here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekkah Hilgraves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking advantage of some of the great functionality in both WordPress and through this great theme (Graphene), EdTittel.com has gotten a significant overhaul and facelift. Come on in and look around!]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of &#8220;opportunity cost&#8221; in troubleshooting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In trying to get one of my SSD-based test systems to work properly, I decided to upgrade from x86 Windows 7 Ultimate to x64 Windows Professional. And alas, I thereby willingly threw myself into the slough of despond. Even though I swapped out the SSD for a conventional HD, when I tried to run the Windows &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/blog/the-importance-of-opportunity-cost-in-troubleshooting.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rude Surprises: Asus P5K Mobo Doesn’t Do VT; Bungled BIOS Flash Hoses Same</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/rude-surprises-asus-p5k-mobo-doesn%e2%80%99t-do-vt-bungled-bios-flash-hoses-same.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Windows 7, running Windows XP mode requires that the computer support Virtualization Technology (VT). Most modern Intel and AMD CPUs support VT, but I am learning to my woe and dismay that some motherboards — including some relatively new ones — do not. This includes the Asus P5K motherboard that has otherwise proven itself &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/rude-surprises-asus-p5k-mobo-doesn%e2%80%99t-do-vt-bungled-bios-flash-hoses-same.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>No Joy on In-place Upgrade; Clean Install Succeeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’d been hoping to try an upgrade install on my balky, problem-prone production PC to see if it could cure or at least help to address some of the issues that Vista has developed over time in that runtime environment. Alas, it was not to be. I’ll share the details in the next paragraphs, but &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/no-joy-on-in-place-upgrade-clean-install-succeeds.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Machine Clean-up Makes For Rocky Computing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I swapped notebook PCs with a co-worker, who essentially traded me a smaller, lighter MSI PR200 notebook for a larger, heavier Acer model. Essentially I took over a machine that had been somebody else’s for over a year and had to go through the clean-ups and contortions necessary to make it mine (or &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/machine-clean-up-makes-for-rocky-computing.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Here Goes&#8230;Something: Win7 Upgrade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although my recent recitation of Vista system problems has not been altered (and I’ve also lost my ability to interact with my HP MediaSmart Server via the Windows Home Server Connector in the interim), I’m still going to try an upgrade install from Windows Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate on my primary production machine. &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/here-goes-something-win7-upgrade.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping Out USB Ports</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks and Tweaks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In attempting to fix erratic mouse behavior on my production desktop, I discovered the need to visualize what USB devices were connected to which ports on my PC. I also wanted to make sure I had USB 2.0 devices connected to USB 2.0-capable ports and hubs, while I was looking into these matters. To those &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/mapping-out-usb-ports.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Certified Information Systems Security Professional</title>
		<link>http://www.amazon.com/CISSP-Certified-Information-Security-Professional/dp/0470944986/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Totally updated for 2011, here&#8217;s the ultimate study guide for the CISSP exam! Considered the most desired certification for IT security professionals, the Certified Information Systems Security Professional designation is also a career-booster. This comprehensive study guide covers every aspect of the 2011 exam and the latest revision of the CISSP body of knowledge. It &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.amazon.com/CISSP-Certified-Information-Security-Professional/dp/0470944986/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Forensics JumpStart</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essential reading for launching a career in computer forensics! Internet crime is on the rise, catapulting the need for computer forensics specialists. This new edition presents you with a completely updated overview of the basic skills that are required as a computer forensics professional. The author team of technology security veterans introduces the latest software &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Forensics-JumpStart-Michael-Solomon/dp/0470931663/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1312076755&#038;sr=1-1">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cyberheist</title>
		<link>http://www.amazon.com/Cyberheist-financial-American-businesses-meltdown/dp/0983400008/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1312076603&#038;sr=1-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not since the markets melted down, and the recession sank its icy hooks into the business climate in 2008, has American business faced a threat as serious as the current cybercrime scene. Small to medium enterprises have been hard-hit in particular, amounting to tens of millions of dollars being stolen out of their bank accounts. &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.amazon.com/Cyberheist-financial-American-businesses-meltdown/dp/0983400008/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1312076603&#038;sr=1-1">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Guide to TCP/IP, 3rd Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn the concepts, terminology, protocols and services that the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite uses to make the Internet work! This book clearly displays and demonstrates TCP/IP capabilities while encouraging readers to interact with the protocols as well as to read and learn about them. It provides both the knowledge and tools would-be network &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.amazon.com/Guide-TCP-IP-Ed-Tittel/dp/1418837555/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_11">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>HTML, XHTML &amp; CSS for Dummies</title>
		<link>http://www.amazon.com/HTML-XHTML-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/0470916591/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The indispensable introductory reference guide to HTML, XHTML and CSS Even though new technologies enable people to do much more with the Web, in the end HTML, XHTML and CSS are still at the root of any Web site. The newest edition of this bestselling guide is fully updated and revised for the latest technology &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.amazon.com/HTML-XHTML-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/0470916591/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>SuperTalent Pico Drives: Tiny, Compact Form Factor, Great Big Value and Capacity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, my friends at memory maker SuperTalent Technology sent me several of their super-compact Pico USB Flash drives for review. After finishing a couple of books, and dispatching diverse dragons, I&#8217;m finally ready to report on my findings. The quick&#8217;n'dirty take on these 8 GB flash drives is: excellent value, nice &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/supertalent-pico-drives-tiny-compact-form-factor-great-big-value-and-capacity.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Server 2008 For Dummies</title>
		<link>http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Server-2008-Dummies-Tittel/dp/0470180439/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1312068906&#038;sr=1-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re curious, but hesitant, about finding your way around Microsoft’s new Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 For Dummies is the book for you. This friendly reference shows you everything you need to know — from installation and deployment to building and running a Windows Server 2008 network.]]></description>
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		<title>Hallelujah! Production Vista System Finally Behaves Like One</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All I can say when it comes to finally getting my production Vista desktop working as I think it should be is &#8220;It&#8221;s about (expletive deleted) time!&#8221; After building this system over the summer and dealing with the usual shakedown issues involved in getting all the software and settings installed, I found myself fighting a &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/hallelujah-production-vista-system-finally-behaves-like-one.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Patch Tuesday For December 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second Tuesday in each month is when Microsoft schedules its patches, fixes, and security updates. Recently, Microsoft has begun to offer Advance Notification for its Security Bulletins, which makes it a lot easier to tell what&#8221;s coming down the pike. For December, 8 updates have been pushed to the Windows Update servers Of today&#8221;s &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/patch-tuesday-for-december-2008.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thermaltake NBcool T3000 Notebook Cooler</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of their cramped cases and modest ventilation, most notebook PCs tend to run significantly hotter than desktop PCs. Recently, case and cooling specialist ThermalTake sent us one of their notebook coolers to look at, promising some &#8220;interesting results&#8221; from its use. With that tantalizing promise to test, we decided to check it out with &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/thermaltake-nbcool-t3000-notebook-cooler.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Grab this great, free rootkit detector if you need it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rootkit is a particularly stealthy and nasty form of malware designed to take over complete control of a system (root level access in UNIX terms means &#8220;access to everything, no holds barred&#8221;). Rootkits seek to hide from detection via standard operating system based security mechanisms, and require special tools for detection and cleanup. For &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/grab-this-great-free-rootkit-detector-if-you-need-it.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Secunia Personal Software Inspector Does a Bang-up Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As somebody who&#8221;s been researching and writing about malware since 2003, I&#8221;ve come to recognize Danish information security firm Secunia as a reliable source of good intelligence about what&#8221;s happening on the threat landscape. When a malware alert, proof of concept exploit, or news story shows up with their name on it, I will invariably &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/secunia-personal-software-inspector-does-a-bang-up-job.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Begone! Dratted (Old) System Files: Begone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When one member of my mirrored pair of system drives failed earlier this year, I replaced that pair of Seagate 7200.10 320 GB drives with a pair of Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ SATA II 3.5&#8243; drives with 16MB Cache. I also installed the still-working member of that pair in my system, so as to retain access &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/begone-dratted-old-system-files-begone.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Change of Memory Makes a Difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In writing about my trials and tribulations with Windows Vista on my production PC over the summer, I summarized my situation in a blog entitled &#8220;Time for a new motherboard?&#8221; on September 20. By the beginning of October things with the system had quieted down enough, thanks to switching to a single-vendor security solution (PC &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/a-change-of-memory-makes-a-difference.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>More out-of-cycle MS Updates post</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night when I was quitting for the day, after 11 PM, I noticed that the autoupdate function in Windows Update had posted two more items to my primary production PC. Both look interesting, but so far I&#8221;ve had some trouble trying to ferret out more details about one of these two patches. Here&#8221;s what &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/more-out-of-cycle-ms-updates-post.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshot: PC Tools Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8221;ve been using Spyware Doctor to handle spyware on my machine for over two years now, with great success in handling spyware. In the past three months, I have switched to PC Tools Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus thanks to issues documented in my story &#8220;Best-of-Breed Apps Aren&#8221;t Always Best for Vista&#8221; &#8211;namely, incompatibilities between AVG &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/snapshot-pc-tools-spyware-doctor-with-antivirus.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Out-of-cycle Security Patch Posts to Fix Huge, Gaping RPC Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally, Microsoft reserves its security patches, fixes, updates, and other software tweaks and maneuvers for the second Tuesday in each month, aka &#8220;Patch Tuesday.&#8221; Yesterday afternoon I was somewhat surprised to see various sources trumpeting the release of an out-of-schedule security patch through Windows Update on the fourth Thursday in October. As described in Knowledge &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/out-of-cycle-security-patch-posts-to-fix-huge-gaping-rpc-hole.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Really &#8220;Game Over&#8221; for Vista Already?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the focus of this Web site, I hope it makes sense that I also follow industry news about Windows Vista as well as its technical ins and outs. Recently, I&#8221;ve noticed a growing swell of journalistic opinion/reporting that Vista has failed, that Vista is no good, and that the business world is aleady passing &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/is-it-really-game-over-for-vista-already.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sysinternals TCPView Reveals Port Activities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many things I do for a living is to develop and revise courseware for a local Austin company that provides &#8220;Learning Centers&#8221; for all kinds of Fortune 500 companies. This includes some companies whose high tech products and business activities overlap with my interests and expertise. Right now, I&#8217;m hot on the &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/sysinternals-tcpview-reveals-port-activities.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shadow Copy Puzzle Partly Deciphered</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s blog, I reported on the appearance of reports for numerous (9 one day, 10 the next) &#8220;corrupt and unusable&#8221; VolumeShadowCopyXX entries in the System Log in Event Viewer. All of these originated from source Ntfs, the Vista file system manager. As I researched the matter, it looked like the best way to fix &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/shadow-copy-puzzle-partly-deciphered.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Graphics Drivers, New Shadow Copy Puzzles to Ponder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past couple of months, I &#8216;ve been grappling with graphics stability issues. Mostly, this has meant driver restarts where you get a message that reads something like &#8220;Display driver stopped responding and has recovered.&#8221; Occasionally, this has involved a BSOD that mentions the Nvidia driver files nvlddmkm.dll or nvlddmkm.sys. When it happens, it &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/new-graphics-drivers-new-shadow-copy-puzzles-to-ponder.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Restart Manager Surfaces In Event Monitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any time something surfaces in Event Monitor that I&#8217;ve never seen before, it always piques my interest. My usual practice is to scan the Event Monitor&#8217;s Windows Application and System logs every Monday morning to see what might need my attention. This morning, among the items that caught my eye was this message &#8220;Application (pid &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/restart-manager-surfaces-in-event-monitor.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing Vista Mouse and Audio Nits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that my production system has been stable for nearly two weeks, I&#8217;m finally getting around to dealing with other aspects of its behavior that aren&#8217;t quite right. This morning, I resolved to address two issues that have been vexing me lately: an occasional but frequent case of &#8220;cursor freeze&#8221; from my mouse, and regular &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/fixing-vista-mouse-and-audio-nits.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Yikes! A Positive Encounter with Dell Tech Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought a Dell All-in-one (AIO) 968 printer a little over a month ago, to replace the aging Brother fax/printer I purchased almost 10 years ago for my business. Some of the vendors for whom I work require me to fax contracts back to them to get paid, so I&#8217;m quite naturally eager to retain &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/yikes-a-positive-encounter-with-dell-tech-support.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Vista: Trials, Troubles, and Triumphs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reading over Chris Pirillo&#8217;s daily newsletter this morning, I tripped over an interesting item entitled &#8220;Is Maximum PC right about Vista?&#8221; For those not already in the know, Maximum PC is a serious PC enthusiast publication, built around a glossy, high-concept monthly magazine and a Web site to match, with coverage of all kinds &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/windows-vista-trials-troubles-and-triumphs.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What a difference a fan makes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In putting my production machine back together, I noticed that my disk drives and my passively cooled graphics card were running a bit warmer than I might like. So as I took the machine apart to replace the drives I also popped the front cover off and installed a ThermalTake 120mm TurboFan in front of &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/what-a-difference-a-fan-makes.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Vista-compatible firewalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of my daily routine consists of visiting online message boards for IT and technical classes for instructing online courses for companies that currently include HP, Sony, Radio Shack, and Motorola (I’ve also taught online courses for Symantec, IBM, Forbes and Business Week, and others). One topic that I’ve built courses for and teach regularly &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/vista-compatible-firewalls.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a new motherboard?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My production Vista machine is still acting screwy. When I leave it running all night, as I usually do, to let it run automatic updates for Windows itself, anti-virus and anti-spyware software, and to conduct all kinds of automated housekeeping tasks (disk defrag, file system cleanup, and so forth), this PC hangs every night. Alas, &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/time-for-a-new-motherboard.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Explorer.exe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been reading my blogs lately, you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;ve been battling mightily with some vexing and puzzling stability problems on my primary production PC. In the past two weeks, I&#8217;ve tried nearly everything I can think of to bring this problem under control. My failure to find a convincing resolution is forcing me to &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/the-trouble-with-explorer-exe.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever looked over the regular updates that get delivered the second Tuesday of every month (so-called &#8220;Patch Tuesday&#8221;) to your Vista machine, you can&#8217;t help but have noticed the regular appearance of something called the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. As I write this blog on 8/05/2008, it&#8217;s only the first Tuesday of &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/the-microsoft-windows-malicious-software-removal-tool.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stealthy, Interesting &#8220;Patch Tuesday&#8221; Item</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/stealthy-interesting-patch-tuesday-item.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second Tuesday of every month is also known as &#8220;Patch Tuesday,&#8221; because that&#8217;s the day when Microsoft normally releases its security updates, along with other patches and fixes for its various Windows operating systems, applications, and so forth. Yesterday was the second Tuesday in September, and Windows Update proffered 10 items, most of which &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/stealthy-interesting-patch-tuesday-item.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shaking Down Windows Vista Proves Too Interesting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks, I’ve built a new Windows Vista system and upgraded the CPU on my primary production machine. In each case, I’ve seen problems pop up afterward that caused the Windows Reliability Monitor to report errors and related problems on those machines, and have watched their reliability scores plummet accordingly. On the &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/shaking-down-windows-vista-proves-too-interesting.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quick &#8216;n&#8217; Dandy Windows Process Lookup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve used lots of online sources to look up Windows processes and DLLs by name in the past, but one that keeps coming up on Google over the years is Uniblue&#8217;s site at www.processlibrary.com. Now, that company has created a free, fabulous, and small (2 MB) process lookup tool. It integrates right into Windows Task &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/quickndandy-windows-process-lookup.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Post SP1 Cleanup, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you install a service pack on a Windows machine, it’s not unusual for it to leave plenty of files strewn about your system disk in its wake. What’s unusual about Windows Vista SP1, however, is that it includes its own clean-up utility. If you run it after performing an SP1 install it can recover &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/post-sp1-cleanup-part-3.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Post SP1 Cleanup, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/post-sp1-cleanup-part-1.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of installing Vista SP1, I’ve been noticing various little “gotchas” that have popped up and require my attention as time goes by. It’s been about 4 to 5 months since SP1 hit, and I’ve been slowly and steadily inspecting and cleaning up in its wake. I’ve also noticed some differences between applying &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/post-sp1-cleanup-part-1.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Solved &#8212; 103 Devices, 5 Volumes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This looked just plain weird to me. When I checked Reliability Monitor and the installation of the generic volume shadow copy devices I couldn&#8217;t make out a pattern even though it was there to be found. I even posted queries about this to vistaforums.com, techsupportforum.com, and to Microsoft Tech Support, but it took a Facebook &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/mystery-solved-103-devices-5-volumes.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>More on the latest BSOD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In digging further into my BSOD from Thursday, August 7, using the Windows Debugger I observed that the ultimate cause was a module named pctsSvc.exe (see attached screenshot below). A quick process lookup informs me that this is part of PC Tools Spyware Doctor runtime environment. Additional research on Windows crashes related to this module &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/more-on-the-latest-bsod.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson Learned: More on Post-Uninstall Clean-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, my blog &#8220;Should Software Makers Clean Up After Themselves?&#8221; expressed my consternation that responsible software vendors could create uninstall utilities that don&#8217;t completely clean up after themselves. I reported that one well-known program that I just uninstalled left 462 registry entries and 151 files behind. I was wrong: it also installed the Viewpoint &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/lesson-learned-more-on-post-uninstall-clean-up.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Event Viewer Error Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with my ongoing Vista troubleshooting exercise, I&#8217;ve gotten into the habit of dropping in on my Event Viewer every couple of days to see what kinds of errors and warnings are popping up. By keeping tabs on this information, and researching stuff I haven&#8217;t seen before or don&#8217;t understand, I keep learning more &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/interesting-event-viewer-error-message.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hot outside, hot inside too</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hot, hot, hot here in Round Rock, TX. And alas, when I say it&#8217;s hot here, I mean in the house! Our inside cooling stack for the main A/C apparently iced up yesterday, and quit working. I&#8217;ve had to cut the main unit off, so our only cooling in the house right now is &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/hot-outside-hot-inside-too.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Following the Breadcrumbs in Event Viewer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I&#8217;m finally starting to relax a little bit. After six weeks of intermittent crashes and daily blue-screens, I&#8217;ve now gone four days on my production Vista machine without a major hiccup. I&#8217;ve still had a few minor problems, as I&#8217;ll soon report, but it now seems somewhat safe to say that the system &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/following-the-breadcrumbs-in-event-viewer.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cool, calm, and corrected: Temps back to normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog of mine &#8220;Hot outside, hot inside too&#8221;, I reported on the effects of a failed air conditioner on the temperatures inside my PC. Now that repairs on complete and things are back to what passes for normal around here, I thought it might be interesting to see how current temperatures compare. &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/cool-calm-and-corrected-temps-back-to-normal.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Best-of-Breed Apps Aren&#8217;t Always Best for Vista</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I have to start this blog with a confession: I’m an inveterate system tinkerer, and am always looking for something better for my system (if not for something rated as the best of its kind). For example, this approach has led me to skip using a good all-around security suite in favor of picking &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/best-of-breed-apps-arent-always-best-for-vista.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Work, More or Less</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I posted the news that circumstances beyond my control&#8211;a crashed member of the mirrored disk pair that makes up the system drive on my production PC&#8211;forced me to reinstall Vista on that machine. I&#8217;m now more or less finished with that chore, though I still have many more applications to dig up and &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/back-to-work-more-or-less.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another BSOD in the wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re been following my travails with my primary production system lately, you already know that I&#8217;ve been struggling to fix mysterious hangs and occasional bluescreens since the third week of July. On Wednesday, one of the two drives in my system drive mirror crashed. I not only replaced both of those drives, I also &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/another-bsod-in-the-wall.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>98 Bottles of Beer&#8230;No, Wait! 98 Generic volume Shadow Copy Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I began my day with some modest self-congratulation, or perhaps just a small sigh of relief that my recent Vista crises have abated. It&#8217;s now been 9 days since my last bluescreen and my System Stability Index in Reliability Monitor is nearly at 8.0 for the first time since August 11. I sincerely &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/98-bottles-of-beer-no-wait-98-generic-volume-shadow-copy-devices.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Solved: This web site!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebekkah Hilgraves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of users have encountered and commented on a flaky &#8220;flooding&#8221; error on ViztaView.com over the last couple of weeks. They&#8217;ve also complained about issues registering for the community, long page waits, and other oddities. Today you might notice that all these troubles have disappeared. That&#8217;s because our Managing Editor (yours truly) discovered that &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/mystery-solved-this-web-site.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Driver Troubleshooting Calls For Serious Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time poking around at techsupportforum.com in their Windows Vista Support area. For those not already in the habit, let me observe that it&#8217;s amazing how much you can learn from reading through other user&#8217;s problems along with the tools and techniques that knowledgeable experts suggest to help them ease their afflictions, or &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/driver-troubleshooting-calls-for-serious-tools.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thermaltake Vi-ON 3.5&#8243; External HD Enclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thermaltake makes some terrific products for PC enthusiasts and professionals inclined to pick up tools and computer components and indulge in a little do-it-yourself activity. In another recent review, I examined their nifty eSATA/USB hard drive dock, which led them to send me an actively ventilated and much more attractive eSATA/USB drive enclosure: This device &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/thermaltake-vi-on-3-5-external-hd-enclosure.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Should Software Makers Clean Up After Themselves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you don&#8217;t already know, I make my living by writing articles, white papers, books, video scripts, help files, technical documentation, and other forms of information about computer software, systems, and networks. I&#8217;ve been doing this for a long time (since 1986 part-time, and since 1994 full-time). Over the years, I&#8217;ve seen some terrible &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/should-software-makers-clean-up-after-themselves.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tools: A Lightning Tour of msconfig.exe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windows system configuration tool, msconfig.exe has been around for some time. The easiest way to launch this utility is simply to type msconfig in the Start menu&#8217;s search box, but you can also access this utility by typing &#8220;system configuration&#8221; into Windows Help and Support, then selecting the &#8220;Start System Configuration&#8221; item that appears &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/tools-a-lightning-tour-of-msconfig-exe.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Vista Fixes: Windows Search and WMI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a new Vista install, you&#8217;ll find there are numerous clean-up tasks that must sometimes (or always) be performed in its wake. Two weeks later,  I&#8217;ve gotten far enough past major post-install clean-up issues that you&#8217;ll find documented in other recent blog posts and articles here to dig into my Event Viewer logs to see what else &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/recent-vista-fixes-windows-search-and-wmi.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Network Discovery Doesn&#8217;t Always Confer Network Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last week, I&#8217;ve reinstalled Vista on my primary production PC. Over time, this has led me back over ground that I&#8217;ve crossed many times before. It&#8217;s also helped me to recognize some differences between Vista and XP behavior, in all kinds of interesting ways. Take printing, for example: I&#8217;ve got an old but &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/network-discovery-doesnt-always-confer-network-access.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Configuring Windows Vista Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite long-time haunts on the Web is http://www.blackviper.com/. It&#8217;s the work of computer enthusiast Charles M. Sparks of Yreka, California, USA. Its main attractions are a series of detailed Windows Services lists with multiple recommended levels of settings. The draw comes from a simple statement about Windows &#8220;Disable unneeded services to reduce &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/configuring-windows-vista-services.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Help! Windows Update Won&#8217;t Work After Vista Install</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having installed and reinstalled Windows Vista half a dozen times or so in the last month, it&#8217;s finally dawned on me that there&#8217;s a clean-up, post-installation step that Microsoft has not documented as an explicit part of that process. The symptoms of the problem that this step addresses are straightforward: when you run Windows Update, &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/help-windows-update-wont-work-after-vista-install.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Forced into Vista reinstall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I&#8217;ve been forced to bite the bullet earlier than planned, and am now starting into reinstallation of Vista on my primary production machine. Here&#8217;s what propelled me into an emergency rebuild: I run my system disk in a RAID 1 (mirrored) array of two drives, and yesterday morning, one of the drives in that pair failed. &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/forced-into-vista-reinstall.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>CPU-Z Offers PC Hardware Insight and Info</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CPU-Z is the work of Franck Delattre at CPUID.com, the same outfit that also offers the excellent freeware programs called PC Wizard and HWMonitor, (I&#8217;ve also reviewed HWMonitor on this site; see my article on TJMax). I&#8217;ve been using CPU-Z for years, thanks to its widespread use at Tom&#8217;s Hardware for reporting on PC hardware &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/cpu-z-offers-pc-hardware-insight-and-info.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>ShellExView Shows Windows Explorer Shell Extensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In trying to troubleshoot vexing Windows Explorer problems, I encountered one piece of advice repeatedly. It is best summarized as &#8220;Turn off unnecessary Explorer extensions.&#8221; According to the company which makes ShellExView, NirSoft, &#8220;Shell Extensions are in-process COM objects which extend the abilities of the Windows operating system.&#8221; In plainer English, this means that shell &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/shellexview-shows-windows-explorer-shell-extensions.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Filezilla: Fast, free, and easy Windows FTP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the late 1980s I&#8217;ve used the TCP/IP-based File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, to upload and download tens of thousands of files for hundreds of book and Web projects. Along the way, I&#8217;ve transitioned from command-line FTP (anybody else remember put, get, mget, hash, and all the rest?) to numerous GUI FTP tools. I have &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/filezilla-fast-free-and-easy-windows-ftp.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Uniblue Process Scan Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending some more time at the Uniblue Process Library site, I discovered that they also offer a free process scanning tool that offers another, possibly more usable and expeditious way to conduct active process research on your Vista PC. You can download their Process Scan tool (901 KB) and install it on your PC &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/uniblue-process-scan-tool.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Revo Uninstaller: Fast, Good, and Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when I still did software engineering, one catchphrase I learned that has stuck with me is: “Fast, cheap, and good: Pick any two, and you’ll probably get them. Pick all three, and you probably won’t.” By that metric, Revo Uninstaller succeeds in delivering a highly improbable hat trick, along with great functionality, good support, &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/revo-uninstaller-fast-good-and-free.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>eSATA Drive Dock Offers Handy Outboard Storage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re anything like me, you’ve got more disk drives than you have installed in your systems at any given moment. Until recently, I accessed these drives using an Antec MX-1 Hard Drive Enclosure with its top off for quick’n’dirty access to various SATA drives. Then I happened upon the Thermaltake BlackX ST0005U, a plain &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/esata-drive-dock-offers-handy-outboard-storage.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Post SP1 Cleanup, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started developing problems with a couple of SP1 Vista installs recently—application crashes, system instability, system software components shutting down—I started my troubleshooting by eliminating potential hardware-related causes. Once those were behind me, I encountered some issues with the accretion of application installs and uninstalls over time. I have to believe this is a &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/post-sp1-cleanup-part-2.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Warning! Volume Shadow Copy Service Sometimes Eats Excess Disk Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service exists to produce clean snapshots of disk volumes, and to create shadow copies of data or files that are consistent, readable, and associated with some specific timestamp. Microsoft abbreviates this service as VSS, for some odd reason or another omitting the C, as in the command line program that &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/warning-volume-shadow-copy-service-sometimes-eats-excess-disk-space.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Blu-Ray Worth It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the high-definition DVD options available to home theater and PC users have narrowed to Blu-ray only, it might be worth posing the question as to whether or not Blu-ray has any relevance to your entertainment and computing situation. In large part, in fact, that answer depends on the other equipment that you have, &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/is-blu-ray-worth-it.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Help yourself to cool shortcuts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve run Vista for a while, you probably know you can get to many programs by looking them up in Help and Support. This typically produces a list of help pages, among which you can usually find a link to launch the program you want. Take this infrequent but common Windows task, for instance: &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/help-yourself-to-cool-shortcuts.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Solid State Drives Benefit Notebook PCs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would you &#8212; or should you &#8212; consider a solid state drive (SSD) for your notebook PC?  Most important, an SSD can save time and stretch battery life nicely. For some, those benefits may outweigh the high cost of acquiring one. Having just swapped a 40 GB drive for a 160 GB replacement in &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/solid-state-drives-benefit-notebook-pcs.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Windows Internals: Thanks to Sysinternals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sysinternals has long been renowned as one of the best sources for Windows tools and utilities. You can still see it at work under the Microsoft umbrella by typing www.microsoft.com/sysinternals into your favorite browser. Let me explain the apparently redundant gobbledygook that makes up the title for this story. Inside Windows and Windows Internals make &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/inside-windows-internals-thanks-to-sysinternals.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Notebook Upgrade Shenanigans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m in the process of upgrading my 14-month-old Dell D620 Latitude notebook. As shipped from the factory, it included 1.0 GB of RAM (2 x 512 MB DDR2-667 SO-DIMMs), a 40 GB HD, and a T2300E 1.66 GHz Mobile Core Duo CPU. This was adequate for running Windows XP, but I quickly upgraded the SO-DIMM &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/interesting-notebook-upgrade-shenanigans.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Problem Reports and Solutions Applet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I jump into this topic, let me explain its title. In keeping with some no-doubt hoary and outdated Windows terminology, I like to call entries that appear within the Windows Vista Control Panel “applets” (as in miniature applications). Microsoft has apparently abandoned applet terminology if indeed they ever used it, and calls these things &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/using-the-problem-reports-and-solutions-applet.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>System Builder’s Blog for June 24, 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, I want to share experiences building Vista systems with our readers. In the last month, I’ve built (and rebuilt) at least three Vista systems, one an upgrade on my Dell Latitude D620 notebook from Windows XP SP3 to Vista Business SP1, another a brand-new build on a QX9650 quad-core system in &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/system-builder%e2%80%99s-blog-for-june-24-2008.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>TJmax: it’s more than just a clothing outlet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TJ stands for thermal junction, and represents a measure of the temperature of a circuit or electronic package at the point where the part radiates the most heat (usually from the top surface). TJmax stands for the maximum temperature that such an integrated circuit, or more correctly a chip or chipset in its socketable package &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/tjmax-it%e2%80%99s-more-than-just-a-clothing-outlet.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Love-Hate Relationship with Vista Reliability Monitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more interesting features built into Windows Vista is the Reliability monitor that appears as part of performance monitoring. Though you can launch this tool by working your way through this menu sequence: Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Reliability and Performance Monitor, I find it&#8217;s a heck of a lot easier to just &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/my-love-hate-relationship-with-vista-reliability-monitor.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch&#8217;entrate: Upgrade to Vista!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gibberish in the title of this blog is from Dante&#8217;s Inferno, and is usually translated as &#8220;Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.&#8221; Like many others, until I looked this up I was under the misapprehension that the Inferno was written in Latin. It&#8217;s not: It&#8217;s in Tuscan which, at the time it was &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/lasciate-ogni-speranza-voi-chentrate-upgrade-to-vista.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Repair a dropped Vista Wi-Fi Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Tittel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogger Rick Fairlie at ZDnet has posted a story that outlines a strategy for dealing with Wi-Fi links that come up and work, however briefly, but then go down and refuse to come back up until you reboot your notebook PC. Having suffered from this phenomenon myself on numerous notebooks&#8211;I test &#8216;em for &#60;a href=&#8221;http://www.tomsguide.com&#8221; &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://www.edtittel.com/win7view/archive/repair-a-dropped-vista-wi-fi-connection.html">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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