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I need a Boost!  Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:12:43 -0800   Windows Clubhouse
GumbyGumby

Ready boost, a feature first introduced in Vista, enables you to use USB Thumb drives as extra RAM for your PC.  However, I never really thought that this got much attention, for whatever reason.  I have therefore, just remembered that this feature ...

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D’oh! Recover that file with Windows Backup  Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:25:58 -0800   Windows Clubhouse
GumbyGumby

Following on from my blog about Windows Backup, here is a little known additional feature of Windows Backup. Despite what Steve Jobs and most Apple fans would have you believe, the ability to restore a file to a previous state was not invented by Apple.  ...

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System Imaging and Restoral with Windows 7  Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:37:29 -0800   Windows Clubhouse
Richard HayRichard Hay

One of the tenants behind Windows 7 is making your everyday tasks easier.  One of the areas that Microsoft has made much simpler to use is the backup feature in the OS itself. For anyone who has ever lost data due a hard drive or computer crash and did ...

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