DesktopsJust read a fascinating article over at the DealNews website. Entitled "Windows 8 Sales...
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DesktopsAfter a month of searching for the right person, I finally found him. I had to look under every rock but he’s really out there. It’s the lone guy on the planet who loves his Surface Pro and he doesn’t work for Microsoft! Truly, it was a huge accomplishment to find someone who...
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DesktopsIn early 2012, I wrote a two-part series of blog posts on "Buying a Touchscreen for Windows 8," (Episode...
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DesktopsMake of it what you will, but prices at the Microsoft store are being slashed. I found the best coverage of this phenomenon at C|NET where Brooke Crothers'
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DesktopsIn Windows 7, Microsoft introduced a canned report from the built-in Windows Performance Monitor -- renamed to the Resource and Performance Monitor -- sometimes known as the Windows "Health Check" or "Health Report." From a search box or the command line, you can enter perfmon /report...
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DesktopsA recent spate of stories on the Web (The Verge,
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DesktopsMy home office set-up includes a pair of 27" Dell monitors (2707 WFPs) on my primary production desktop. I say this by way of explaining why one of my favorite working techniques is to stay logged into that machine, and to use Remote Desktop Connection (and the RDP protocol) to reach out from that...
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DesktopsWindows 8 includes a Control Panel widget called "Create a recovery drive," that you can use to create a USB flash drive to boot up and repair your system should anything go wrong with the boot or system partitions. And if your PC includes a custom-built recovery partition (something you'll have...
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