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Which Windows 7 Version do You Really Need?

Posted by Thomas On January - 28 - 20119 COMMENTS

windows 7 packages 500x222 Which Windows 7 Version do You Really Need? Buying a new computer these days, chances are, it will come pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium Edition. That makes sense from the vendor’s standpoint, as the license for Home Premium costs less and it still has most of the functionality and features that the average user will want. But what if you aren’t the average user?

Looking to Upgrade? How to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 7 Professional

Some Vendors only offer the Windows 7 Starter Edition, which in my point of view is a sham to make you pay even more money for your computer. Steer away from these offers I say – unless of course you enjoy NOT being able to change your wallpaper – ever again.

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How to Use Microsoft Excel to Analyze Free Text Surveys, Feedback and Complaints

Posted by Rich On January - 13 - 20116 COMMENTS

Update: Part 2 of this article can be found here.

Using spreadsheets to analyze numerical or well-categorized data is relatively straightforward. It might not be easy necessarily, but at least you normally know exactly what to do. If you have ever been faced with open-ended text responses, perhaps from a survey, emailed questions or feedback forms, you know how tricky it can be to make sense of it.

The problems are many. Non-standard formatting, having to manually read each response to understand its content, variable length, and those are just the first that come to mind.

What we need is some way to drill down automatically to see if there are any common patterns, and therefore have an immediate starting point to start interpreting the responses.

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Span Volumes, Make Windows Think Two Drives are One

Posted by Thomas On January - 1 - 20116 COMMENTS

DIY SSD Span Volumes, Make Windows Think Two Drives are One Do you have several physical hard-drives on your computer, but would like to have them collaborating as one? This can be useful for smaller SSD-drives or similar.

A quick Note before we continue!
Spanned volumes are not RAID volumes and they are not fault tolerant. If one of the disks in the volume should fail, you lose the data on both disks. That being said, let’s continue…

Preparations

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Use Windows 7’s Display Color Calibration to Optimize Your Display [How To]

Posted by Rich On December - 30 - 20103 COMMENTS

color calibration01 Use Windows 7s Display Color Calibration to Optimize Your Display [How To]

As all screens are not created equal, which is why Microsoft have bundled a display color calibration tool with Windows 7. This tool is easy to use and this guide serves as a checklist for using it.

You should use this tool if:

You’ve not calibrated your screen yet.
You’ve changed monitors (even if it was calibrated with another computer.)

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What’s Going on in Windows Forums?

Posted by Stu On December - 19 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Windows Forums is a community for users—from beginners to experts—who learn and share knowledge about Windows and PC’s.

You can get great help and advice from our resident team of super-geeks, browse our community art and tools sections, or just let it all out in the Shoutbox. It’s entirely up to you.

Here’re some interesting topics you may want to check out. Feel free to jump in on the discussion!

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Microsoft Updates MSE to 2.0–Brings a Heap of New Features

Posted by Stu On December - 17 - 201012 COMMENTS

200px MSE icon1 Microsoft Updates MSE to 2.0–Brings a Heap of New Features

Its quite hard to believe Microsoft Security Essentials has been with us 14 months. In that time it has continued to impress everyone that seems to use it and keeps critics happy with its great detection rates and small footprint on the system.

Microsoft have now released MSE version 2.0.657.0, meaning a much better free application to keep our PCs safe and secure.

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