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Update: The results are in.

Personally, I’m not much of an online gamer; I don’t play online games because… well, I’m not very good at them! However, online gaming continues to increase in popularity and gaming is a big reason why people choose Windows over Linux, OS X etc.

Check out some of Thomas’ and my favorite online flash games:

Thomas’ Favorite Online Games | Rich’s Favorite Online Games

Here’s a quick poll about online gaming:

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Update: The results are in.

Previously, we showed you what Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode are, how to create any virtual machine with Windows Virtual PC, and how to create a virtual PC with Virtual Box.

I use virtual machines frequently (mostly to write guides for this site when I need to test a tweak in different versions of Windows) and sometimes just to learn how to use another operating system like Linux Mint or Free BSD for example.

Here at Windows Guides, we love your feedback and have a quick poll for you to share your feedback with us:
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Here at Windows Guides, we’ve showed you how to make a custom start orb, apply a custom start orb automatically, apply one manually, and we even share custom start orbs and will create one for you by request.

(The Yoshi orb, made by UVAIS — as well as four others — can be downloaded here.)

So here’s a quick one-question poll for you: Do you use a custom start orb?

The results from my mini poll last week is in. I wanted to know how many of you out there use more than one monitor on your main computer, and if so which software you were using. We received 271 entries during the week the poll was open and the results was quite surprising (to me anyways).

Only 21% of you use one monitor, but as many as 79% use more…

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I love my dual monitor setup, and I can’t begin to imagine how life was without it. I have recently brought you several multi monitor tools to improve your dual monitor day. But how many of you have more than one monitor, and how many do you have?

Please join my mini survey to answer these questions.

The POLL has now ended, thank you for contributing.

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After releasing the PC Security Handbook Second Edition and the PC Maintenance Handbook Second Edition, we asked you which handbook you’d like to see next. The options were:

The results were very enlightening:

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