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How To Connect Windows 7 Media Center To an Xbox 360 and Stream Media
Feb 3rd
If you’re new to Windows 7 and own an Xbox 360, you might want the ability to watch the Media Center Content from Your Xbox. Here we take a look at how easy it is to set it up using Media Center Extenders.
The cool thing about Windows 7 Media Center is you can access your movies, music, and other digital media from it with your Xbox. Here we’ll walk you through the process of adding media to the Windows Media Center (WMC) Libraries then setting up your PC and Xbox to talk with each other so your Xbox 360 can access those Libraries.
How to Configure Windows 7 Updates
Jan 20th
If you’ve been a Windows user since XP, you probably know the importance of keeping the OS up-to-date. If you’re new to Windows or more specifically Windows 7, here we’ll take some time to go over the importance of making sure you have Windows Updates configured properly.
If you want to help make sure that your PC is is more stable and less vulnerable to malicious attacks, the 2 main things to keep up-to-date is your Antivirus software and Windows Updates. The 2nd Tuesday of each month Microsoft has what’s called “Patch-Tuesday”. This is the day when Microsoft releases patches to improve stability, fixes to known vulnerabilities, and zero-day attacks. Let’s take a look at the process if you’ve just re-installed Windows 7.
Windows Update
To check to make sure your Windows Update settings are on…click on Start>>All Programs and scroll to Windows Update.
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Getting Started with Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011
Dec 30th
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Over the past few weeks we’ve been covering the different offerings available in Windows Live Essentials 2011. Another program we’ll take a look at this week is Live Photo Gallery 2011. Photo Gallery is a set of tools for organizing, sharing, touching up you photos and publishing them online. It has a lot of features not included in previous versions such as the ability to create Panoramas, movies, slideshows, and actually has an interesting search feature using Facial Recognition.
Install & Setup Live Photo Gallery 2011
Installation is simple and very similar to any of the other Live Essentials programs you may have installed already. Right-click on the Windows Live Installer file and click install as Administrator.
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Remember that you aren’t required to install everything in the Live Essentials Suite…only what you want.
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As we mentioned in our previous post about Live Movie Maker, the two install together.
To The Cloud! How Do You Really Do That?
Dec 25th
What does that really mean? In a very catchy ad campaign, Microsoft touts some of it’s newest technologies (and some old one’s too!) in an attempt to impress you enough to move “to the cloud!”
The only problem is that they don’t really tell you how to do it! Our crack team of technologist get to the bottom of each commercial and tell you how it’s done. We have imbedded each one for you to review. Software applications needed are listed below each video.
Sharing a Youtube Video (Most likely made with Windows Live Movie Maker) through Windows Live Messenger
Sharing Windows Live Office documents on SkyDrive or sharing Office documents using Windows Live Mesh.
Windows Live Mesh to pull up the screen of the PC at home and simple copy and paste to the local laptop to view with Windows Media Center. Window Media Center was also used to record the TV content at home.
Create and Edit Home Videos with Windows Live Movie Maker
Dec 21st
Over the past few weeks we’ve been taking a closer look at the apps in Windows Live Essentials 2011. For this week’s tutorial we’ll take a look at getting started with Windows Live Movie Maker 2011.
Installation and Setup
Download the Windows Live Essentials 2011 Installer file and kick off the process.
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Again, it’s worth noting that you aren’t required to install all of the apps in this suite, only the ones you want. Since we’re covering Live Movie Maker make sure to select Photo Gallery and Movie Maker then wait while it installs.
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Note: You will need to install Photo Gallery and Movie Maker together, but we’ll just be covering Movie Maker in this article.
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When installation is complete a restart is required.
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When you come back from the restart you’ll find Live Photo Gallery and Movie Maker in the Start Menu.
Reinstall Applications on Your Home Computer Easily with Ninite
Nov 27th
Have you recently needed to reformat your home computer’s hard drive? You saved your data, but the idea of reinstalling all the applications seems daunting. Enter ninite.com…which is a simple web service that will reinstall popular freeware apps with just a few clicks.
Using Ninite
Using ninite.com couldn’t be easier, just navigate to the website and select he apps you want to install. Everything on the page is separated into easy to find categories from browsers to music, to plenty of other utilities.
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These are only a couple shots of what it available on the site. For more on what is available, head over to ninite.com
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After you select the apps you want to install, head toward the bottom of the page, and get your installer. One of the cool things to keep in mind is, they don’t install any crapware such as toolbars or other wanted spyware with the apps.
How To Setup Windows Live Essentials 2011 on Windows 7
Nov 18th
If you’re moving from XP to Windows 7, you might be wondering where apps like Movie Maker, MSN Messenger, Outlook Express are. Everything has been moved to a separate download called Microsoft Live Essentials, and today we’ll take a look at setting it up on your Windows 7 computer.
Download & Setup WLE
First head over to the Microsoft website to download Windows Live Essentials (WLE) installer and kick it off as Administrator by right-clicking the file and select Run as administrator.
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In the next screen you can select to go ahead and install everything included, or if you don’t want to install everything, select Choose the programs you want to install.
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Now you can select only the programs you want to use. For instance maybe you don’t want the Bing Bar or you already use a different email client and don’t need Windows Mail.
