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Windows Vista Google Alerts for 31 August 2008

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Shop online at Dell for a variety of notebook options ZDNet Asia – Asia Windows Vista and Microsoft Office: Other brands of notebooks come preinstalled with a specific edition of Vista (like Vista Home Basic) and upgrading to a … See all stories on this topic

Download . . .

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Windows Vista Google Alerts for 29 August 2008

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Windows XP Learns New Nag Tactic for Pirates Tom’s Hardware Guide – Culver City,CA,USA Originally, unless Windows Vista was activated correctly, the operating system would fall back into what was referred to as ‘reduced functionality mode’. … See all stories on this topic

Game Key Revealer retrieves . . .

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IE8 Beta 2 UI Update

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Just noticed a slightly different UI box when I clicked on the upper right hand X to close IE (with multiple tabs):

Previously IE7 and I believe IE8 Beta 1 just gave you the option to close all tabs.  To just close the one tab you meant to you have to . . .

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Microsoft Gets Patent for Page Up and Page Down Keys?

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Isn’t this kind of like patenting the term Windows?

The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes "a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one . . .

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Windows Vista Google Alerts for 28 August 2008

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How do I enable CTRL + ALT + DELETE in Windows Vista? TechRepublic – Louisville,KY,USA In this post, Steven S. Warren shows you how to bring the CTRL + ALT + Delete out of extinction in Windows Vista. Did you like using the CTRL – ALT – . . .

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IE8 Beta 2 InPrivate Feature Details

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With today’s release of IE8 Beta 2, one of the more prominent features that has been discussed over the last few days is InPrivate browsing.

I have just finished perusing this feature myself and reading the info the Windows help file about it and was surprised to learn that this is . . .

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