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		<title>Dell Warranty Information Script Puts Your Computer(s)&#8217; Information into an Excel Spreadsheet</title>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2010/05/11/dell-warranty-information-script-puts-your-computers-information-into-an-excel-spreadsheet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 02:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE (2010-05-23) &#8211; Frank van der Horst added some nice &#8220;eye candy&#8221; to this script. For each Service Tag in Computers.txt, the script will display a small Internet Explorer window with a progress bar. Thanks, Frank! Do you or your company use Dell laptops, desktop and server computers? If asked, could you provide the current]]></description>
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		<title>Using Multiple Monitors? KatMouse Just Made Your Life Easier</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 05:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, you come across a Windows utility that makes you wonder &#8220;How did I live without this?&#8221; KatMouse is one of those utilities. This free, lightweight (using ~2 KB of memory) program allows your mouse&#8217;s scroll wheel to scroll whichever window the mouse cursor is currently over WITHOUT having to left-click]]></description>
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		<title>Take Control of Your PDF Documents With PDFTK</title>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2010/03/31/take-control-of-your-pdf-documents-with-pdftk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PreparedPC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a good chance that you use Adobe Acrobat documents in your daily work, school or personal life. They&#8217;re very useful for keeping a nicely formatted copy of your information, especially manuals and educational material. But what if you only need part of a really large PDF document? Or what if you if have a]]></description>
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		<title>SteadyState for Windows 7?</title>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2010/03/15/steadystate-for-windows-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PreparedPC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s SteadyState is a great tool. After you install and configure SteadyState, you basically have a local backup image of your computer, exactly how you&#8217;ve set it up. Any changes that a user makes (installing programs, getting infected by viruses, etc.) get undone with a simple reboot. This is really helpful in situations such as]]></description>
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		<title>Untangle for Windows &#8211; Free Unified Threat Management For the Rest of Us!</title>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/09/04/untangle-for-windows-free-unified-threat-management-for-the-rest-of-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PreparedPC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The skinny: Untangle for Windows is a free way to protect your home/small office network (up to 10 computers). It leverages open source software to give you advanced control of your network that until recently was only affordable to larger corporations. Its features are impressive, especially for a free download. Unified Threat Management (UTM) software]]></description>
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		<title>BatteryCare: Helping Your Portable Computer&#8217;s Battery Live a Long Life</title>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/08/14/batterycare-helping-your-portable-computers-battery-live-a-long-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PreparedPC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like us, maintaining your laptop/notebook/netbook&#8217;s battery is about as high on your priority list as cleaning out leaves from your house&#8217;s gutters. You know it needs to be done, but&#8230; It seems that the best utilities do one thing and do it well. BatteryCare is one of those. Basically it aims to maximize]]></description>
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		<title>jkDefrag is now MyDefrag &#8212; and now, even faster!</title>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/07/24/jkdefrag-is-now-mydefrag-and-now-even-faster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PreparedPC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MyDefrag version 4.1 is a hard disk defragmenter and optimizer. If it looks familiar, that&#8217;s because it was previously called jkDefrag, which we covered last year. Because it uses the same API (application programmer interface) built into Windows that Microsoft&#8217;s own Disk Defragmenter uses it is safe to use. Unlike Microsoft&#8217;s utility, MyDefrag works much]]></description>
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		<title>Bypass Windows and Linux Passwords with Kon-Boot</title>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/07/19/bypass-windows-and-linux-passwords-with-kon-boot/</link>
		<comments>http://preparedpc.com/2009/07/19/bypass-windows-and-linux-passwords-with-kon-boot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PreparedPC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are as many utilities for bypassing Windows (and Linux) login passwords as there are legitimate reasons for doing so (you ARE only using your powers for good, right?). Kon-Boot can help you to bypass a login password. It can be run from a boot CD, floppy, and (thanks to Irongeek), from a USB flash]]></description>
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		<title>SpinRite 6.0 Might Make You a Hero</title>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/01/31/spinrite-60-might-make-you-a-hero/</link>
		<comments>http://preparedpc.com/2009/01/31/spinrite-60-might-make-you-a-hero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PreparedPC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SpinRite 6.0 from Gibson Research Corporation (GRC) is not new (released in 2004) nor is it free (USD$89), but it can fix hard disks (or even floppy disks!) that appear to be beyond recovery. Depending on the condition of the drive, SpinRite could recover files that could otherwise cost thousands of dollars if you were]]></description>
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		<title>Has AVG AntiVirus Made Your Windows XP PC Unbootable? Here&#8217;s the Fix</title>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2008/11/25/has-avg-antivirus-made-your-windows-xp-pc-unbootable-heres-the-fix/</link>
		<comments>http://preparedpc.com/2008/11/25/has-avg-antivirus-made-your-windows-xp-pc-unbootable-heres-the-fix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PreparedPC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AVG Antivirus 8.0&#8242;s recent set of antivirus definitions broke Windows XP by quarantining XP&#8217;s user32.dll as a bad file. There are 2 ways to fix this: Windows XP CD &#8211; If you have a Windows XP installation CD handy, follow these steps. No Windows XP CD &#8211; Grisoft has created a bootable .ISO or bootable]]></description>
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