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Private Browsing with Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Internet Explorer’s new InPrivate Browsing feature allows you to surf the web using IE8 without effectively leaving a track to where you’ve been and what your activities were. In this article, Jason Zandri walks through the security and privacy features of this new functionality.

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How to Resolve an Error in NetWkstaGetInfo (2138)

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

I am running a multitude of Windows-based virtual machines hosted on a bunch of virtualization products, ranging from Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server (yes, I need those for most of the Microsoft Official Curriculum courses I teach), Microsoft Hyper-V, along with those hosted on VMware products such as ESX and (my personal favorite) Workstation….

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Virtual Disk Options in Windows 7 Virtual PC

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This article is one of a list of articles dealing with Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7, and in it I will show you what are the virtual disk options that you can use when building and configuring a VM in Windows Virtual PC. If you haven’t done so yet, read my article on installing…

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Enabling More than One Remote Desktop Session on Windows XP SP3

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

As you probably all know by now, Windows XP Professional allows you to only use one concurrent Remote Desktop session. The moment the remote user connects to the workstation by using Remote Desktop, the locally logged-on user is locked out of the computer, and the remote user, if he or she are using the same…

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Getting Started with the Windows 7 Desktop

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This article takes a look the changes to the Windows desktop and new functionality to perform customizations for personalization and ease of use that are included in Windows 7.

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Installing Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 are a package of add-ons that allow administration of computers running Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2 from a remote computer that is running Windows 7.

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Creating a Virtual Machine in Virtual PC on Windows 7

Last Update: Dec 03, 2024

In on previous article (“Install Virtual PC on Windows 7“) I walked you through the features of the new Windows Virtual PC software that is specially designed for Windows 7. While you can utilize it to boot the default and pre-configured Windows XP virtual machine that can be downloaded from Microsoft’s website (see my article…

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How to Remove Old Device Drivers from Vista & Windows 7

Last Update: Dec 03, 2024

With time, computers gather an increasing number of unused drivers that not only take space on your hard disk, but being still installed, might cause problems if they are somehow enabled. In this article by MVP Daniel Petri, learn how to completely remove these old, unused device drivers from your machine.

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Fixing the Hyper-V Export Error: “Failed to Create Export Directory”

Last Update: Jun 04, 2025

If you’ve received a Hyper-V error on export indicating “failed to create export directory with the name…”, learn how to resolve it with this quick tip from MVP Daniel Petri.

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Working with Virtual Windows XP Disks in Windows 7

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn how the default Virtual Windows XP virtual machine (used for enabling the Windows XP Mode – or XPM for short) uses virtual hard disks.

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