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		<title>To Update Web Browsers Or Not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime subscriber Chet wrote to ask about the need to update Internet Explorer and Firefox: Hi Terry Is it wise to update every time you get an email&#8230;for instance I&#8217;m still using IE8 and am hesitating to go to IE9&#8230;and now it seems FIREFOX, MY BROWSER OF CHOICE, (V3.6.18) is updating every 10 minutes! I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinstalling Windows XP Upgrade On An Old Computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subscriber Louis Zarowin wrote this week to ask for some guidance. Louis needs to reinstall Windows XP on an old computer that had been upgraded to Windows XP. At a time like that, we always worry about whether we&#8217;ve found all the needed disks and files, so we can make sure that all our software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOWTO: Open a Program in a Maximized Window</title>
		<link>http://www.xprepairsite.com/2009/01/17/howto-open-a-program-in-a-maximized-window/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With some programs, we always may want to open them in maximized (full-screen), or even minimized (hidden), mode. Windows allows us to accomplish this via a setting in a program&#8217;s shortcut. Continue reading HOWTO: Open a Program in a Maximized Window]]></description>
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		<title>WinClear Internet History Eraser the Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Product: WinClear Class: Utility — Privacy &#8212; temp file and Windows/Internet history deletion License: Commercial product. Version Reviewed: v2.0 WinClear is a computer history cleaner program designed to delete or erase the history of your activity on your computer. Obviously, it can&#8217;t dig into the guts of every program to find and delete the history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOWTO: Identifying and Changing Default File Type / Program Associations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 02:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you need to identify which program opens a particular file type, you can do that, and a lot more, using the Folder Options functions in Windows Explorer. To find Folder Options, open Windows Explorer (right-click on Start, select Explore). Then, on its menu bar, select Tools and then Folder Options&#8230; At this point, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outlook Express Links Don&#8217;t Work</title>
		<link>http://www.xprepairsite.com/2007/12/21/outlook-express-links-dont-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an interesting question from subscriber Maria. She has been using Firefox, as many people do, including me. In this case, she had just upgraded her Internet Explorer to IE7 and was having problems with Outlook Express. Maria wrote: Terry, I currently have Fire Fox and Internet Explorer on my computer. I just added [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speeding Up Windows XP &#8211; Fine-Tuning Visual Effects</title>
		<link>http://www.xprepairsite.com/2007/10/28/speeding-up-windows-xp-fine-tuning-visual-effects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the news about the cute graphics (often termed &#8220;eye candy&#8221; to denote its real value) of Windows Vista, we need to remember that Windows XP has some of those features, too. Windows XP&#8217;s graphical interface defaults to a number of cute options that are worthless from a usability point of view — and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speeding Up Windows XP</title>
		<link>http://www.xprepairsite.com/2007/10/23/speeding-up-windows-xp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember back when you got your latest computer? It seemed so fast, so much faster than your previous computer. Now, if it doesn&#8217;t seem to drag, it just doesn&#8217;t seem as peppy as it used to&#8230; Part of that effect is our memory — not the computer&#8217;s memory but the memories stored between our ears. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to do a Clean Reinstall of Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.xprepairsite.com/2007/08/20/how-to-do-a-clean-reinstall-of-firefox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when you have a problem, the only thing it seems you can do is to uninstall and reinstall. However, when you do that, there are often more steps that you should take, than to just use Add/Remove Programs to uninstall and then reinstall immediately. Using Firefox as an example, let&#8217;s take a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quieting Windows&#8217; Noises (and selecting other sounds)</title>
		<link>http://www.xprepairsite.com/2007/06/13/quieting-windows-noises-and-selecting-other-sounds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stockdale</dc:creator>
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