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Chrysler and GM commit Hara-kiri

The word is out, both Chrysler and now GM have notified thousands of car dealerships that they are no longer wanted or needed. For two companies try to remake themselves as being a place to buy the new green powered car and high mileage hybrids they are not too smart.

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Verizon Redirects Search Request – Part 2

It’s been almost a year now since I switched my ISP to Verizon. Shortly after switching I had a need to use one of my favorite software utilities Process Explorer. Process Explorer has far better abilities than Windows Task manager when listing and identifying what processes are running on your PC and what application that process is associated with. One very nice feature is to ‘Search Online’ for any process that you would like additional information for. This is when I found out Process Explorer’s web search ability was essentially useless after Verizon redirected my search request.

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Windows 7 RC for XP users - How to find your way around Part 2

For XP users who have skipped Vista and are either using the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) or plan to migrate to 7 when it is released here is how to transition smoothly. Navigating your way around could be a problem at first but once you know where to find things it’s not all that bad. And as usual there are at least two or three ways to get to where you want to go, as you will see demonstrated in this article. This is the second part of an earlier Windows 7 Beta article with updated and new information.

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How to delete unused folders and files located within the $hf_mig$ folder – Part 1

I’ll show you how to perform a cleanup of files and folders located in $hf_mig$.The conventional answer to deleting the $hf_mig$ folder has always been not to delete it. While this still holds true for the folder, there are ways to delete a large number of sub-folders and files contained with $hf_mig$.

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In-Place Upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7

I’ll show you how Windows XP users can safely upgrade to Windows 7 without performing a “Clean Install”. For this article I picked a typical mid range ($1600) PC that was commonly sold around the 2004/2005 time frame.

The object of an “In-Place Upgrade” is to keep all your XP applications, user accounts, data files and not be forced to start with a clean install of Windows 7. Keep in mind a lot of XP applications are not Vista compatible and it will take time for patches or application upgrades become available after the official release of Windows 7.

Read the full article here: http://www.pagestart.com/upgradexptowindows7.html

Windows Installer Folder – Is it safe to delete

Over time this folder can grow to over a Gigabyte or more in size. Some laptops that may only be a few years old could have relatively small hard drives and free drive space is at a premium. Here is a relatively simple solution to the problem.

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MSIZAP: The real power of using the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility

For this article I will be exposing the real power of using the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. How to safely remove orphaned files located in the C:\Windows\Installer folder that have accumulated over the years and gobble up a significant amount of disk space.

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Where to download the .Net Redistributables

A complete listing of where to download each version of the .NET Framework Redistributables starting at version 1.0 up to the latest .Net 3.5 SP1 update.

Get the links for all the downloads here:
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NET Framework - Disk space requirements, Part 2

Part #2 provides disk space usage in detail on a version by version basis, additional information on .NET Redistributables and .NET Software Development Kits (SDK), plus tips on uninstalling .NET and a cleanup utility that you may find useful.

Read the full article here: http://www.pagestart.com/netframeworkpart2.html

Clean Install - Windows 7 versus Windows XP

About 3 weeks ago the PC I use for testing software and operating systems, most of which ends up as articles on my web site failed. After finding a replacement PC, I performed a “Clean Install” of both Windows XP and Windows 7, each on its own separate hard drive, with only one hard drive connected at a time.

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Windows 7 Repair Install

1) Set you BIOS to make the CD/DVD drive the first boot device.
2) When you reboot your PC and see "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD", press the space bar to start the Repair install.
3) Windows 7 will begin to loading files. (White progress bar).
4) The "Starting Windows" logo is displayed.

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Windows 7 for XP users – How to find your way around

For XP users who have skipped Vista and are either using the Windows 7 Beta or plan to migrate to 7 when it is released here is how to transition smoothly

Read the full article here: http://www.pagestart.com/win7forxpuserspart1.html

Windows 7 Clean Install

Now that you have download the Public Beta .ISO file and use it to create a bootable DVD you can start the installation.

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NET Framework - Disk space requirements, Part 1

In Part #1 of this article I will cover the disk space requirements, the two main types of .Net, .Net version numbers, why you need .Net, drive space requirements, an overview of where the .Net files are located on you hard drive, Service Packs and a handy .Net verification utility.

Read the full article here: http://www.pagestart.com/netframeworkpart1.html

NET Framework 3.5 SP1 - Temporary Folder is not deleted

Installing .NET Redistributable 3.5 SP1 results in several temp folders remaining after Setup has completed. In addition you may receive an XPS XPSEPSC error indication that this component has not been installed.

Read the full article here: http://www.pagestart.com/netframework35sp1error.html

.NET Framework 3.0 - Windows XP Service Pack 3 Bug

XP Service Pack 3 fails to list the .NET 3.0 Redistributable as an optional update.The following steps were performed in order to validate this problem with XP SP3.

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Image Backup – When a Restored Image fails to Boot

This was an unplanned article but it came about as a result of deciding to restore my PC back to a point in time before I started to perform a series of tests scenarios for my recent articles on XP Service Pack 3. I created a Image Backups before and after each install of SP3 using Norton’s Ghost (version 10), as a result I had at least eight image backups created on various partitions on my hard drive.

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