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Top Loved Netbooks

July 01, 2009 by lyle in Research, The Pit Blog
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Welcome everyone to a new and very exciting part of PC Pitstop. Roughly a year ago, as part of the incredibly popular OverDrive test, we began collecting user input about PC satisfaction. We began asking the following three questions:

  • * How satisfied are you with this PC?
  • * Is this PC running slow?
  • * Is this PC hanging or requiring frequent reboots?
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Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Pricing

June 28, 2009 by shogan in The Pit Blog
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Microsoft has released their pricing for Windows 7. For most users in the US, this breaks down to three important levels; retail, preorder promotion, and recent purchase upgrade.

The recent purchase upgrade is no real deal for consumers because without it, desktop and laptop sales would grind to a halt. It's not a consumer gift, it's a demand by systems manufacturers to insure survival.

The World's Most Popular Freeware - Updated

June 15, 2009 by kevin in The Pit Blog, free software

Welcome to the official second edition of the PC Pitstop Free Software Report. I want to thank everyone for the tons of comments both positive and negative. We are listening. More importantly, many of our readers learned more from the comments than our Top Software List! In fact, I even learned a few things.

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Best Buy Leaks Windows 7 Upgrade Plans

June 15, 2009 by shogan in The Pit Blog
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The sleuths over at Engadget have apparently uncovered an internal memo from Best Buy outlining plans for Windows 7 upgrades beginning in late June. This goes along with information from Microsoft describing the Technology Guarantee or Windows 7 Upgrade program, as it has been called lately.

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ASK THE PROS June 2009 bing

June 08, 2009 by shogan in The Pit Blog
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1. Agnes S. asks: what is Bing?

Answer
(A). The begining of the end for Google.
(B). An old dead Crosby
(C). A powerful search engine.
(D). Another "gotcha" from Mircosoft.
(E). All of the above.

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The 9 Necessary Links For Windows 7 Users

June 07, 2009 by shogan in The Pit Blog
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With these links all you need is a little time and your new Windows 7 operating system will be up and running. You supply the hardware and these links will supply everything else.

W7 Download Straight form the mother ship, you can use this free download until the actual product hits the shelves, then use the Windows Easy Transfer to move everything to the retail installation. There's no rush.

Windows 7 Official Release Date

June 04, 2009 by shogan in The Pit Blog
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This confirms it!. It's time to jump the Vista ship and get on board with Windows 7. No need to cling to that precious version of Windows XP either. Skip vista and hop into the latest and greatest. You know you want to.

Top Free Software

Welcome to the Top Free Software Report. There are two problems with free software. First off, there is a lot of free software and it is hard to know what free software is the best. Secondly, because it is free, free software makers can't spend money on advertising to get the word out on their cool creations. We hope that this new feature in TechTalk will solve both of these problems.

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WINDOWS 7 TWEAK GUIDE

May 26, 2009 by shogan in The Pit Blog
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After some pretty exhaustive research I was surprised at the lack of real tweaks and suggestions for Windows 7, so here's your chance. Put your proven and personal tweaks in the comments section and I will add them to the article as a part of our Windows 7 Tweak Guide. Keep in mind that there are many suggestions on the WWW that are completely bogus.

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ENCRYPTION What is it? Does it work?

May 26, 2009 by shogan in The Pit Blog
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Are your bank accounts and passwords safe? Are your browser settings where they should be? Is your computer slow because it's busy sending your personal information to Russia?

Don't become the fly in the ointment by thinking that your Firewall, Antivirus, or ISP is going to protect your data. Use encryption all the way to the file level. Have you altered or lowered your browser setting recently? Set them back where they belong. Your protection is only as good as you allow it to be. Protect yourself.

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