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Windows 7
A soon as Windows 7 became available recently I installed it on one of our Vista PCs. The result was a "good news – bad news" situation.
The good news is that about 95% of the files and programs that previously existed on the computer were maintained during the upgrade. We had dutifully copied all our important files to an external hard drive, and we had all our original productivity CDs standing by for reinstallation – but we didn't need to use any of them. Windows 7 even kept three different "office" suites perfectly intact for us (Microsoft Office, Works Office Suite, and OpenOffice). And they all run flawlessly. We can't guarantee that overwriting Vista with Windows 7 will work this well for others, but it did a very neat and clean job for us.
The bad news is that some of my most-used features from previous versions of Windows no longer exist: Windows Mail, Outlook Express, and the Quick Launch Toolbar.
We'll talk more about Win7 soon, but for now we'll answer some r1ecent questions from readers.
Free Anti-virus/Anti-spyware Program from Microsoft Microsoft finally released its much-discussed free full-time anti-malware program to the public. It's called Microsoft Security Essentials and can be downloaded here:
Microsoft.com.
We are now using it on all our computers and are pleased with the way it works.
Downloading YouTube Videos Charles Monica called to tell me about this program. It can be found at
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org. I found the program easy to use, and it offers various options as to what video format you would like a download saved in. I am very pleased with the MP4s it created for me.
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