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Update: The winner is posted here.

Side note: The winner will receive a boxed version of Windows 7, ordered from Amazon and not just a license key.

Last week, I attempted to give away Windows 7 Home Premium, but the winner has not come forward to claim their prize. I’ve tried, multiple times, to contact them and I’ve not heard back.

The good news is I still want to give Windows 7 away to a reader; this is what I’ve decided to do:

• I could have randomly chosen another winner; however, I didn’t expect an unclaimed prize and adding a new rule to the old competition seemed wrong.
• I’ve decided to bump the prize up to Windows 7 Ultimate!
• The competition will run for 77 hours and end on Sunday, September 20, 2009 @ 5 P.M. EST.

What Do I Win?

Windows 7 Ultimate (Retail: $319.99)

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Readers, I believe a brief update is on the cards; a  few things have changed lately. I’ll attempt to keep you updated with the major changes:

MyWindowsPC

• ReCaptcha is being used on members’ blogs to cut spam comments for them (thanks for the suggestion Christopher.)
• MyWindowsPC Help, the official MyWindowsPC help blog has been updated and given a new name.
• Members’ posts are now being featured on the front page.
• The site activity feed is now being parsed to the sidebar of Windows Guides.

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Note: The winner did not claim their prize. Enter to win Windows 7 Ultimate.

Thanks to everyone who took part in the competition for Windows 7 over the last week. Here are some statistics about the competition:

Total Entrants

Overall, there were 216 entrants:

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Adam, is our newest writer on Windows Guides. Adam is a web entrepreneur and iPhone expert; his company, Snapp Software focuses on iPhone and other mobile application development. His articles will focus on how to get the most out of using your iPhone with your PC. As most iPhone users own a PC, I’m sure you’ll all find his articles really useful.

He gave us a kick start this morning with How to Sync Documents Seamlessly from PC to iPhone and I’m sure we can expect to see more great content like this. Look out for his articles on Sunday mornings—a great time to sharpen your skills.

Please welcome Adam in the comments (and have a chance at Winning a retail copy of Windows 7.)

rsvr85 is now part of the Windows Guides team. That makes two of us. Readers: now you’re in trouble ;)

rsvr85 is well seasoned in desktop customization and has been mentioned a few times on Windows Guides before for his work over at the Forums (rsvr85’s profile.)

rsvr85’s Posts

Here’s what we’ve seen from him thus far:

• Free PDF To Text Converter
• Microsoft Office 2010 Screenshots (14.0.4417.1000)
• Customise Windows 7 Media Center (Part 1)
• Change & Limit System Restore In Windows 7 [How To]
• Disable HomeGroup In Windows 7 [How To]
• Add Custom Libraries To Windows 7 Explorer [How To]
• Customise Windows 7 Media Center (Part 2)

Welcome to the team! Please welcome rsvr85 in the comments (it might win you a copy of Windows 7.)

While some of you have entered the competition and are in with a chance to win Windows 7 Home Premium, many of you have not.

Tips to Enter the Competition

• Competition details.
• Windows Guides comment tips.
• You can comment on ANY post on this site.
• Multiple comments on different posts count.
• Submitting ANY post to a social network will count (see how this works below.)

Social Bookmarking

(I’m just sayin’) When you bookmark a page on Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon etc, the comment system automatically picks up your bookmark and puts a note in the comments like this:

When you post a comment, login with one, or many, social networking accounts (in the FROM field) and ensure the message is sent to your social accounts (in the TO field):

Note: Up to six hours may elapse before your social network link is displayed in the comments below.

Good luck everyone, I’ll get back to you on Sunday, September 13, 2009 @ 11 P.M EST (GMT -5) with an announcement of who wins.