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This month’s topic comes as a result of a question sent to our feedback email box recently: “Data is increasing and budgets are shrinking but reliable backups are more important than ever. As an SMB, what should I be looking for?” Today’s backup systems need to be fast, reliable, affordable and designed to easily handle…

This article details the Windows Imaging file format (WIM), the benefits of leveraging it for deploying Windows installs, and reviews the tool (WIMGAPI) that developers use to mange existing WIM files.

Accelerators are a new feature of Internet Explorer 8 that speed up the web browsing experience by providing quick access to functions like mapping, emailing, etc. that would normally require a few extra steps to reach. Learn all about them in this article by Jason Zandri.

This article looks at the Windows 7 Start Menu, some of the changes in the basic functions of it and how you can perform some customizations for personalization and ease of use.

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.

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.

There are times that you may want to use Windows Server 2008 as your personal workstation OS, and Daniel Petri shows you how.

In my previous article titled “Customizing Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation – The Logic” I wrote about the reasons for trying Windows Server 2008 as your workstation, that is instead of using Windows Vista for that task. In order to make the necessary changes and tweak your newly installed system to have more “workstation-like”…

Windows Virtual PC (WVPC) is a client virtualization software, which can be used on Windows 7 to create multiple Virtual Machines (VMs), each running a different operating system (OS). WVPC can be obtained as a free download from Windows Virtual PC website. WVPC is the engine which supports Windows XP Mode, a pre-configured VM running…

The SolarWinds Free TFTP Server is a multi-threaded TFTP server that can be run locally and used to upload and download executable images and configurations to routers and switches. In this article, Jason Zandri walks you through the features and installation of this handy free tool.

Jason Zandri takes you inside the new Aero features of Windows 7; including Aero Peek, Aero Snap and Aero Shake. Learn how these tools will make interacting with Windows easier and more intuitive than ever before…

If Windows Mail has been doing a bit of a vanishing act on you; suddenly disappearing from your start menu and toolbars, this article by MVP Daniel Petri provides the simple steps you should follow to get it back.