Category: Windows

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How To Disable Audio Enhancements in Windows 7

Published on: September 3, 2010 and has 15 Comments

A popular post on Technically Easy is where I recommend disabling audio enhancements on Windows Vista to help reduce the CPU usage of the audiodg.exe process. Depending on the enhancements that were enabled, this can have a large effect or no effect on the CPU usage. While the above post covered how to disabled the [...]

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How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 4

Published on: March 17, 2010 and has 5 Comments

So far in my Windows security series, I have looked at securing your system using a hardware firewall to keep your Internet connection secure. I then talked about creating a Windows standard user account, and disabling certain services. In my last post I talked about more methods you can use to secure your Internet connection from within Windows using software and a DNS service.

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How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 3

Published on: March 10, 2010 and has 3 Comments

This is the third part in my series on securing your Windows 7 system. In part one I talked about securing your system using a hardware router and an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). In my last post I discussed creating a standard user account, disabling certain services, and a few other tasks you could perform within Windows to secure your system.

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How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 2

Published on: March 3, 2010 and has 8 Comments

In my last post titled How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 1, I talked about securing your wireless router and about how to protect your computer with a UPS. While the tips provided in that post can apply to more than just a Windows 7 system, I felt it was important to discuss how to secure you system outside the actual operating system.

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How to Secure Your Windows 7 System – Part 1

Published on: February 24, 2010 and has 9 Comments

I recently purchased a new computer that had Windows 7 installed. With my new computer I figured it would be a new start with both the new operating system and security. Over the past month I have been busy reading, learning, and applying various security measures on my new computer.

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Internet Connection Slow in Windows 7

Published on: February 17, 2010 and has 10 Comments

I like tinkering with my operating systems. I change many settings from their defaults, and sometimes the settings improve things, while other times it may break something. After I recently began exploring Windows 7, I began tinkering with some connection settings to see what they do. Unfortunately, I had changed several settings and then realized [...]

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Rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows Vista and Windows 7

Published on: February 10, 2010 and has 4 Comments

I recently purchased a new desktop computer to replace the 8 year old desktop I was previously using. The previous desktop had served me well for those 8 years, and had been running Windows XP without any problems. It had begun to show its age recently, however; so I bought myself a new one. My [...]

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System Cannot Open the Device of File Specified – Windows Installer Error

Published on: November 25, 2009 and has 2 Comments

I had been having a problem when installing software that consisted of a single MSI file and displayed the error “System cannot open the device of file specified.” Whenever I ran a MSI file I continuously received an error on the screen that prevented the application from being installed. I tried it on several installs, and they all produced the same error.

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