Friday, December 26, 2008

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Fix An Incorrect Or Duplicate Windows Boot Entry

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re annoyed over a duplicate or unnecessary boot option in your Windows XP boot menu, excise it with a handy guide from the How-To Geek. The guide covers removing and modifying entries in the boot.ini, whether they are phantoms from previous installs, recovery partitions, or other operating systems. The guide also covers a low risk way of disabling the boot menu all together to boot directly to Windows without the delay of the boot selection menu. How to Delete, Modify or Disable an Incorrect or Duplicate Entry on the XP Boot Menu More »
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Free Ebook Thriving on Less Available For Download

10:54PM Gina Trapani | Author of the upcoming book The Power of Less Leo Babauta offers a companion ebook that’s free to download now. Thriving on Less—Simplifying in a Tough Economy tells you how to do just that. The 27-page PDF describes advice garnered from Babauta’s own journey from clutter, debt, and scarcity to a simpler, frugal lifestyle that focuses on the essentials and cuts away the extras. Like Babauta’s popular Zen Habits blog, this book offers calm, peaceful straight talk that makes the super-busy and overwhelmed think “I want to live like that.” Looks like a great preview of what’s to come in his print volume, which gets released this week. Think Babauta’s approach is possible in today’s world or too idealistic? Let us know what you think in the comments. Free Ebook: Thriving on Less – Simplifying in a Tough Economy More »
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Microsoft Offers Windows Vista Answers Tech Help Forum

10:14PM Gina Trapani | Just in time for all the new holiday computers running Windows Vista, Microsoft launches to their new Vista Answers community, a tech help forum where users ask questions and Vista experts offer answers. The site’s already been seeded with common Vista questions and answers from team members. Here’s a sample of some of the Q and A that’s already available. How can I add items to the start menu in Windows Vista? Why doesn’t Windows Vista report all my memory? Should I change the size of my page file? When you ask a question you can get answer notifications via email, on-site, or subscribe to a thread’s RSS feed. Windows Vista Community Forums [Microsoft Answers via gHacks] More »