Family Pack Returns in time for the Anniversary of Windows 7
Starting October 3 in the U.S., Windows 7 Family Pack will be available for purchase at participating retailers and online at the Microsoft Store. Purchasing the Windows 7 Family Pack gives you three upgrade licenses of Windows 7 Home Premium for the low price of $149.99. To take advantage of Family Pack, you’ll need a PC running a genuine copy of either Windows Vista or Windows XP that is capable of running Windows 7. The Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor can tell you which features and editions of Windows 7 will run on your computer(s).
For those of you who don’t live in the U.S., Family Pack may be coming your way too. It goes on sale in Canada, UK, Germany, France, Australia and many other markets on or after Oct. 22 (Windows 7’s 1 year anniversary!)
Two new additions to Pagestart.com are the "Dual Boot Korner" and the "Windows 8 Korner" Features articles on How to create, change, remove and repair Dual Boot and Multi Boot computers with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.
Latest articles are on the home page (just scroll down) and for additional articles just click on the "Dual Boot Korner" tab at the top of the home page or click here. Windows 8 Korner, click 8 times here. You may notice over the next several weeks a new home page layout designed for easier reading and access to current and past articles, please be patient.
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Random Thoughts - August 31st Texting your way back to the future Back in the 1800’s you would take you message to the local telegraph office
New - July 12th Public Beta Now Available for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
New - July 6th Windows Installer Cleanup Utility Discontinued
New - June 28th Windows 7 Backup and Restore:How to create and save multiple image backups How you can use Windows 7 Backup and Restore to create and store multiple image backups to a USB drive that has limited free space. This article is based on a Windows 7 user who asked why backup and restore does not maintain multiple versions of system images as advertised.
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Family Pack Returns in time for the Anniversary of Windows 7 Starting October 3 in the U.S., Windows 7 Family Pack will be available for purchase at participating retailers and online at the Microsoft Store. Purchasing the Windows 7 Family Pack gives you three upgrade licenses of Windows 7 Home Premium for the low price of $149.99. To take advantage of Family Pack, you’ll need a PC running a genuine copy of either Windows Vista or Windows XP that is capable of running Windows 7. The Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor can tell you which features and editions of Windows 7 will run on your computer(s).
For those of you who don’t live in the U.S., Family Pack may be coming your way too. It goes on sale in Canada, UK, Germany, France, Australia and many other markets on or after Oct. 22 (Windows 7’s 1 year anniversary!)
For more information read the Windows Experience Blog:
RAMMap http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx Have you ever wondered exactly how Windows is assigning physical memory, how much file data is cached in RAM, or how much RAM is used by the kernel and device drivers? RAMMap makes answering those questions easy. (Does not work on Windows XP, Requires Windows Vista or Windows 7)
Understanding Downgrade Rights http://oem.microsoft.com/script/contentpage.aspx?pageid=552836 "Downgrade rights for Windows 7 are an end-user right, documented in the Software License Terms that customers accept upon first running Windows software. Note that Windows 7 end user downgrade rights will be available for approximately 18 months after the general availability of Windows 7 (April, 2011) or the release of a Windows 7 Service Pack, whichever is earlier."
New - July 6th Windows Installer Cleanup Utility Discontinued
New - June 28th Windows 7 Backup and Restore:How to create and save multiple image backups How you can use Windows 7 Backup and Restore to create and store multiple image backups to a USB drive that has limited free space. This article is based on a Windows 7 user who asked why backup and restore does not maintain multiple versions of system images as advertised.
June 11th, 2010 Windows 7 - Service Pack 1A and Service Pack 1C Actual there is only one service pack however logically there are two, SP1 (A) is for all of us and is free whereas SP1 (C) is for the corporate IT departments.
April 12th, 2010 How to improve the chances of a successful install of Windows 7 on a home built PC. Here are some steps you can take to help insure success when installing Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. Test utilities for home built Do It Yourself (DIY) computers.
March 16th, 2010 - Revised April 3rd Windows 7 - How to repair Bad Sectors reported by Chkdsk. If you plan installing Windows 7 on a new hard drive or already have installed Windows 7 then read on as you may be in for a big surprise. Windows 7 is only capable of performing a ‘Quick’ format of your hard drive when performing a “Custom” install.
June 9th, 2010 Windows 7 - How to repair Windows 7 after removing XP from a Dual Boot computer These instructions will show you how repair and change a Dual Boot computer back to a Single Boot system. During the boot process you see the following error message: “DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT DISK AND PRESS ENTER”.
May 7th, 2010 How to remove Windows XP from a Windows 7 Dual Boot computer Windows XP is the original operating system installed on your computer’s hard drive. You then installed Windows 7 on the same drive and created “Dual-Boot” system. Windows XP is no longer needed and you want to know how to uninstall it.
New - July 6th Windows Installer Cleanup Utility Discontinued
Windows 7 for XP users How to find your way around Navigating your way around can be a problem for someone who has used Windows XP all these years, but once you know where to find things it’s not all that bad.
August 31st, 2010 Texting your way back to the future Back in the 1800’s you would take you message to the local telegraph office
August 3rd, 2010 Morrie Yohai, the Man who invented Cheez Doodles, died today August 3, 2010, he was 90 years old.
Bankfight at the OK Corral Tombstone Arizona 1881, no actually Wall Street 2010 and this time maybe the action will cut the big banks down to size and plant a tombstone marked “Here rests XYZ a bank that was once too big to fail”. ----- >
March 1, 2010 Windows 7 RC enters the next phase of expiration:
Expiration notifications in the task bar continue. Computers that are running Windows 7 RC restart every two hours. Important Note: Your work "will not be saved" during shutdown.
Windows 7 Dual or Multi Boot: What happens if I remove Windows XP, Part 2
You might just want to say no to WAT. Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7 - KB971033 is coming.
Windows 7 Error Code (0x8078007D) Backup and Restore Error: How to fix this problem in 10 easy steps.
Windows 7 Dual or Multi Boot: What happens if you remove Windows XP,Part 1
Windows 7 - GodMode Folders Call it the new TweakUI or a super sized Control Panel. GodMode reveals dozens of previously hidden or hard to find features.
Windows 7 Professional upgrade - Vista owners beware. The Windows 7 Professional Upgrade DVD (32-bit or 64-bit) has only one version of Vista that it is able to upgrade based on the upgrade path chart. Vista Business edition owners win everybody else looses.
How to perform an In-Place upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 Yes it can be done despite the fact that Microsoft wants XP users to start with a clean install thereby losing all your user files, settings and applications !
Understanding Downgrade Rights http://oem.microsoft.com/script/contentpage.aspx?pageid=552836 "Downgrade rights for Windows 7 are an end-user right, documented in the Software License Terms that customers accept upon first running Windows software.
Note that Windows 7 end user downgrade rights will be available for approximately 18 months after the general availability of Windows 7 (April, 2011) or the release of a Windows 7 Service Pack, whichever is earlier."
February 3rd, 2010 Expiration of the Windows 7 Release Candidate On February 15th, people still running the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) will receive a notification reminding them that starting March 1st, 2010, their PC will begin experiencing bi-hourly shutdowns.
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the Windows kernel. We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerability or of customer impact at this time. Windows 7 32-Bit and Windows XP SP2 and SP3 are listed as "Affected Software" Windows 7 64-Bit is listed as "Non-Affewcted. December 6th How we designedthe default background in Windows 7 Engineering Windows 7 (This is worth reading as it can provide some insite to some graphics issues during bootup)
November 24th Look for the logo this holiday Look for products that have earned the “Compatible with Windows 7 logo” is the best way to know the product will work as expected.
October 23rd I watched Apple's "Broken Promises" ad on TV. Only have one question Mac: If your so much better, why are you "still" after all these years in second place, far more people choose Windows and not Worms. October 22nd Check out the Windows 7 Themes and Personalization Gallery Themes, Backgrounds, Gadgets, SideShow gadgets Learn how to make your own theme http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize
Windows 7 - Let the party begin October 22nd has finally arrived. You may even find a present on your door step from HP, Dell, Tiger Direct and others. Drop by your favorite store if you are itching to spend a little money.