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The Best Windows 7 Feature

I’m still freak’n over how solid, fast and all-round great Windows 7 is. The first time ever an OS upgrade (without repaving the machine) actually feels like I did a fresh install. Vista drove me nuts – both because of its sluggishness, and because of a totally failed file and folder management strategy. At the height of my frustration I was experimenting with Total Commander, Opus 9 and a couple of other file management applications in an effort to rid my self of the the ‘built in’ windows explorer.

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Nokia N96 vs HTC Touch Pro

UPDATE:  20 Oct 2008 - have spent some time playing with both handsets, and even more time looking at Windows Mobile as a whole. Since I travel a lot, and will not be buying a handset as part of a plan or contract, I'll be buying an unlocked, full retail price device - and have decided to wait a little longer before taking the plunge. The HTC Diamond Pro suffers from Windows Mobile's clunkiness once you get beneath 'touch flow'.

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Last.fm

Having spotted a tweet on Pandora.com - and then of course discovering that Pandora.com is not available outside the U.S., I was inspired to take a proper look at Last.fm. Incredible. Download the desktop app, and the appropriate plug-in for your media player - and Last.fm will "scrobble" whatever you listen to, building up a recommended playlist; similar artists, genres etc.

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Stop the Thrash

I like Windows Vista - it's a cool and stable OS. But it's taken me a while to get it to boot fast, and stop thrashing my disks to death. Windows Search, automatically scheduled items like Disk Defragmenter and Windows Defender and the biggest culprit - Superfetch, all put a heavy load on boot time and run time disk activity. I tend to keep things pretty well organised and never really needed a desktop search engine and so I disabled Windows Search (the search feature on the start menu will still find program menu items - which is incredibly useful).

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BitLocker, EFS, and Windows Backup

I remember the first time I was burgled. It was in 1993 and I was living in London at the time. It was a tad unsettling to come home and see the front door of my apartment smashed open, and things not exactly the way I left them before I went to work!  I lost a bunch of Audio CDs, my TV and some cash that was lying around - but NOT my computer. Since then being online a LOT more, and needing a safe place to store personal online information - account codes, banking information, subscription information etc.

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