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		<title>Adding the Run Command to Windows 7&#8242;s Start Menu</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2010/08/01/adding-the-run-command-to-windows-7s-start-menu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#8217;ve really missed with Windows 7 has been the Run command on the Start button&#8217;s menu. The Run command has been available via the Start button&#8217;s menu for a lot of versions of Windows — but not for Windows 7. Fortunately, during a series of emails back and forth with Clif [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Tips on Working With 64-bit Windows 7</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2010/06/08/some-tips-on-working-with-64-bit-windows-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned some things about the 64-bit version of Windows 7 when I built my new home theater PC. I initially thought about installing the 32-bit version of Windows 7, but it can only access 4 GB of memory. I installed the 64-bit version of Windows 7, which came in the same Windows 7 retail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copying Pictures Only Makes Shortcuts</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/11/15/copying-pictures-only-makes-shortcuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-time reader Chet Norris wrote to ask aout a couple problems he was having: Hi Terry 2 questions for the price of one if I may. 1.When I try to copy &#8216;my pictures&#8217; to a CD they come out as addresses or locations instead of pics. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s normal but if possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quattro Pro Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/08/28/quattro-pro-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscriber Ray Lenz wrote after my articles recently Terry, I enjoyed your Q &#038; A with Alice. I&#8217;m 76 myself and slowing down a little with my computer savvy even though I have been working with computers since 1966. I was a programmer on an IBM 1401 with 8K of memory using SPS (Symbolic Programming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Protection with a Firewall and Router</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/02/17/internet-protection-with-a-firewall-and-router/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, subscriber Peter Killick had a question about protection from downloads: I was under the impression that my combination of a router plus a software firewall completely prevented anything ever being downloaded on my computer over the web without my approval, typically indicated by clicking a button. My router is a Netgear, properly and carefully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun on the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/01/28/fun-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, I like to write about new sites (or, at least, new to me) that are designed for fun. First, let&#8217;s take a look at some ASCII art. ASCII stands for &#8220;American Standard Code for Information Interchange.&#8221; In the 1960&#8242;s and 1970&#8242;s, before the days of dot-matrix printers and other printers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Computer Symptoms</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/01/06/strange-computer-symptoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime subscriber Greg wrote to ask: Terry, My desktop has started to have a couple really aggravating problems and I wanted to run them by you. 1) Every morning when I go to check my email before work, I find that all my desktop icons have disappeared and I am looking at the wallpaper only. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speeding Up a Slow Dialup Connection</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2008/11/30/speeding-up-a-slow-dialup-connection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reader Teri Scott wrote me to ask about her slow dialup Internet connection: Hello, I have a desktop and a laptop and live in a remote area so the only internet I can get is dial-up. We recently moved and in our previous home, my desktop and laptop connected consistently at about 36.8kps. Now my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backup Success Story</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2008/11/07/backup-success-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2008/11/07/backup-success-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscriber James McClellan wrote to let me know he was finally successful with backing up&#8230; Terry, I hadn&#8217;t been able to get my external back-up drive to work since buying a new dell. At your recommendation, I tried Karen&#8217;s Replicator ( www.karenware.com ) It worked great and I&#8217;m now doing daily backups to the external [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create PDF Files for Free</title>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2008/10/16/create-pdf-files-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the easiest ways to document web pages and other printable content is to &#8220;print&#8221; them into a PDF file. Adobe&#8217;s Acrobat program provides a printer driver to create such files from anything that you can print. Of course, Acrobat is out of reach for many people, or at least, we don&#8217;t have any [...]]]></description>
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