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Easily Install Multiple Applications

Setting up a new machine? Or, and this is probably more likely for many of my readers, did you just finish reloading a friend or relative’s Windows machine and now you need to get some applications on it? In the Windows world this isn’t quite as easy as it is in the Linux world, but

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Friend sent me a 10 day “resurrection” pass to try and get me back to World of Warcraft. OK, what the heck, it has been quite a while since my last little fling. I’ll get the patching going tonight and hopefully be able to play later this week.

Oh wait – what’s this? I can download

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Windows Installer CleanUp Utility to the Rescue

I continued to update FolderShare installs today and ran into a new wrinkle with my home XP desktop. While trying to upgrade the existing version — or even just plain uninstall it — I’d continually get a prompt to supply the original install file for that old version.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I

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Follow-up on the Dead Computer

After much swapping of parts, it is either the motherboard or CPU. Fortunately, I have a friend who is much more current than I. When he heard about my woes, he offered up an “old” PC of his for parts.

What’s it mean when his old PC is an upgrade for me? Think

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