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Reinstall Applications on Your Home Computer Easily with Ninite

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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. These are only a couple shots of what it available on the site. For more on what

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Home Server Show #114

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Is this the beginning of the end for Windows Home Server or just a new beginning?  Did we let Microsoft off the hook on the podcast?  Is Drive Extender really that big of a deal?  Is Vail really a fail?  You decide after listening to all we have to say about Microsoft’s announcement about pulling drive extender out of Vail.  We have a lot to talk about on this episode and several folks joined up to do just that.   Listen and Show notes here:  http://homeservershow.com/the-home-server-show-114.html

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Getting Started with Windows Live Mail on Windows 7

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Previously we showed you the basics of Windows Live Essentials 2011 and the programs it includes. Today we’ll take a closer look at getting started with Windows Live Mail on Windows 7. Install & Setup Your Live Mail If you haven’t done so already, download and install the Live Mail from the Windows Live Essentials 2011 Suite. After it’s installed you’ll find Live Mail in the Start Menu, just click to launch it. Setup Live Mail with Live or Hotmail Account Here we’ll setup a Live account, but you can also setup Gmail and many others. We’ll be taking a

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How To Setup Windows Live Essentials 2011 on Windows 7

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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. In the next screen you can select to go ahead and install everything included, or if you don’t

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Home Server Show #113

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It’s lucky #13, well…sort of!  Tons of news, Add-ins, Drobo and anything else WHS related we could fine to talk about.  Make sure you listen all the way through.  Dave loaded some funny stuff at the end. If you didn’t join us live (and you should try it sometime @ http://homeservershow.com/live), you missed some very good chat!  We broadcast live every Wednesday night at 8:00pm CST.  You can get a reminder each week by following my at Twitter.com/theaverageguytv The podcast and all the show notes at http://homeservershow.com/the-home-server-show-113.html

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Windows Multipoint Server 2011 beta

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November 13,2010 I’ve been having a look at Windows Multipoint Server 2010 this week. Sean Daniel released a slide deck for SMBNation Presentations on Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and 2011 Standard. I noticed on slide 24, there is a reference to a product called Windows MulitPoint Server. So I downloaded the 2010 version and installed that on a 1TB drive on my Shuttle SG33G5M with a 880GT. Looks like you need to have a USB hub for each keyboard and mouse for each workstation and a video connection on your server for each monitor. All was going well,

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