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Is It Safe to Delete Windows.old Folders?

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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>I have an ASUS CM5570 that is 4 years old as of Aug 9. It came with VISTA and a Win 7 Home Premium upgrade. I then purchased Win 7 Ultimate. Now I have all of them aboard under Windows, Windows old, Windows old.000 and windows old .oo1. Could I remove any of them because my HD is 3/4 full. I have removed everything else that I did not use, but it did not improve things very much. Any thoughts? Thank you.</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beverly, if you are certain that your laptop upgrade has gone the way you wanted it to, and you have all the files that you need or want onto the main part of your hard drive, it is safe to remove the Windows.old folders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Before removing the folders, firstly check the following:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Are you missing any files that you want or need from your old installations of Windows?</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Are all your preferences how you wanted them to be, following the upgrade? (Do you want anything back the way you had it prior to upgrading?)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have you been using your installation long enough to know you’ve confidently tested all areas of your laptop that you use frequently?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you’re certain about all of these, you can then go ahead and remove the Windows.old folders. Though a normal deleting of the files isn’t recommended, as there is a specific Windows function built-in to handle these folds. You can utilise this function by doing the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Be warned before starting, once this is done it cannot be undone.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Click the Start button, or the Windows logo on your keyboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Click the resulting application, named “Disk Cleanup” Select the applicable hard drive. In most cases this will be C:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Disk Cleanup will begin to calculate all the space it can save for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Once it is done calculating, you will be presented with numerous options. One of these options will be “Previous Windows Installation(s)” This is the option you want to choose to get rid of Windows.old folders. (See image below.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Check any other options that you may want to remove also, “Recycling Bin” and “Windows Update Cleanup” are good suggestions for clearing space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Click “Ok,” and it’ll prompt asking you if you’re sure you want to permanently delete the files. Press “Delete files,” and let the Disk Cleanup application do its job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Once it’s complete, these folders will be gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy all the space that you’ve freed up, with peace of mind that you’ve removed the folders correctly!</span></div>
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Is It Safe to Delete Windows.old Folders?

I have an ASUS CM5570 that is 4 years old as of Aug 9. It came with VISTA and a Win 7 Home Premium upgrade. I then purchased Win 7 Ultimat...

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3 Critical Windows Security Updates You Need Now!

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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft has three critical Windows updates available for vulnerabilities already being used by hackers. Critical issues like these are called zero-day vulnerabilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Among the flaws with fixes is a patch to Internet Explorer that fixes 14 vulnerabilities. The worst of them could allow an attacker to execute malicious code if you view their website. This fix is called MS14-056 and you will have to restart your computer for this update to go into effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Updates also address vulnerabilities in that can allow attackers to take control of your computer and one that allows malicious software to be embedded in TrueType fonts. Yep, they can get to you through your fonts, too. The TrueType vulnerability is in a kernel-mode driver. I point this out because this is a flaw that needs to be fixed at a very basic level – the kernel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Only Microsoft has the necessary information about Windows to permanently patch this flaw. If you’re using Vista, Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 – the company is sharing the information with third-party security providers to fix the problem. It you’re still running XP, there’s no security patch being shared with third-party security providers, so there’s no way to permanently remove it from your system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And hackers can reverse engineer the patch and use it to develop attacks against XP. So, keep that XP machine offline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Another vulnerability addressed in these updates is Sandworm, a bug that has already attacked various government agencies and companies and a flaw that allows attackers to bypass the security measure in Microsoft Developer Tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There are 24 vulnerabilities addressed in all. If you have your computer set to update automatically, you should be good.</span></div>
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Configuring Windows8 Mail

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<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Go to the Start screen (Press the Windows key)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Click on the <i>Mail</i> application</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">On the left side, click on <i>Add your email accounts</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">4</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the following example I will select Google</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><img border="0" height="390" src="http://www.onecomputerguy.com/images/windows8/mail3.jpg" width="708" /></span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">5.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Enter in your Google E-Mail Account and password. Check if you want your Google contacts and calendar (which will the sync to your Windows8 People and Calendar</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">6.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Click on the <i>Connect </i>button</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">7.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">By default, it will only sync two weeks of e-mail. If you would like to change that, move your mouse to the upper right corner and select <i>Settings</i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">8</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Click on <i>Accounts</i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">9.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Click on your Gmail account</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">10.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From here you can change the amount of time to sync.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">11.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You can also change your signature</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">12.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">When you are done, simply press the back arrow that is at the top of the screen.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" colspan="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><img border="0" height="114" src="http://www.onecomputerguy.com/images/windows8/mail5.jpg" width="345" /></span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">13.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To create a new e-mail, click on the + at the top of the screen.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">14.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To create add more e-mail accounts, click on Settings / Accounts again. The <i>Add an account.</i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">15.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">New accounts will show on the left panel sorted alphabetically. If you want, you can rename the accounts so they sort however you would like.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="27"><span style="font-family: Arial;">16.</span></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="715"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here's a screenshot of how I added the OneComputerGuy e-mail</span></td></tr>
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Configuring Windows8 Mail

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How Do I Get Rid Of System Icons?

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<em><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">How do I delete the Icons of choice at the bottom of the screen next to the clock?</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Those icons are called System Icons and that area is known as a System Tray. We aren’t really going to be deleting them, so much as hiding them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You can choose to turn System Icons off completely.  Go to the search box in your Start Menu or Search Charm and type “Turn system Icons on or off.” Then click on the search result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Another window will open. At the bottom, choose Turn System Icons on or off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You can also choose to add icons for other items, such as security programs, to your system tray from the notifications area window.</span></div>
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Are Apps Only For Smartphones?

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<em><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not familiar with all the new technology, especially as it relates to smart phones.  I see offers to download apps on my computer, but have not done so because I think they don’t apply to computers, only smart phones, iPads and such.  Am I right?</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">app (short for application) could be for a smartphone, tablet or computer. App really just means program. But to work on your computer, an app must be designed for your operating system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, let’s look at the page for WPS Office, a free office suite. You”ll notice that it is available for Android, iOS, Windows & Linux.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If you own an Android tablet or phone, you would choose Android. If you have an iPad or iPhone, you select iOS and for a Windows computer, select the Windows option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If we look at the page for Instagram, you’ll see that there are options for going to the Apple App Store and for Google Play. That means this program can only be used on Apple Devices or Android phones or tablets and is not available for your PC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, if you are using Windows 8 or 8.1, there’s an entire app store full off applications designed for your computer. Either search for Store in the search charm or tap the icon that looks like a shopping bag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-69316" height="96" src="http://imgsrv.worldstart.net/images/ct-images/2014/10/bag.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="119" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Then you can browse the Windows  for both free and paid applications for your 8 or 8.1 PC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> You won’t find an app that works for your PC in the Google Play Store or the Apple Store. You can find apps in the Windows Store if you have 8 or 8.1. </span></div>
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Great Free Windows Programs You May Have Overlooked

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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve written a few articles about programs that are included with Windows that people sometimes overlook like WordPad and Paint. In this article, we’ll look at Windows Essentials 2012 – a great group of free downloads from Microsoft that may be just what you’re looking for if you don’t like the Mail and Photo apps included with Windows 8.1.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Windows Essentials 2012 is a suite of five programs.  You can install the entire suite or the individual programs.  The programs are Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail and OneDrive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Go to Microsoft.com to download Windows Essentials.  Choose Download now to download and install the whole suite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />You could also choose to scroll down and click Learn more under each program to find out more about it before downloading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />After you click download, you’ll have the choice on installing the entire suite or the individual programs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Let’s take a look at the programs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Live Mail is an e-mail client that offers a nice set of features.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />It is very similar to pre-2013 versions of Outlook or Outlook Express.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I like the appearance of Live Mail better than the very sparse Mail App that comes with Windows 8.1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> Photo Gallery can assist you in importing photos from your camera, phone or other mobile device. Using the tools, you can make quick adjustments to color and brightness and crop and straighten photos. Photo Gallery also fixes red-eye, lets you resize photos and apply effects like black and white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />You can also create slideshows and share images with friends and family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The Windows 8.1 Photo App does many of the same functions. Photo Gallery is more mouse-mouse friendly and it allows you to resize photos, something that the Windows 8.1 Photo App maddeningly doesn’t do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Movie maker allows you create movies using photos, videos, music and voice. It also comes with themes to assist you in putting your movies together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><img alt="" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-69041" height="220" src="http://imgsrv.worldstart.net/images/ct-images/2014/10/moviemaker-450x220.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="450" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />You’ll need a separate DVD burning program if you want to create a movie that will play in a standard DVD player.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Windows Live Writer is a great tool for users who need to publish posts to the Internet. It allow you create blog posts and add photos and video and even a Bing map. The program will let you automatically publish those posts to whatever blogging platform you use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You could click the file name once to highlight, click a second time to make it available to change, then type in the new file name.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You could click the F2 key  available to change, then type in the new file name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Right click the file and choose <strong>Rename</strong>. This will highlight the file name allowing you to type in a new one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hold down the <strong>Alt</strong> key and double click the file to open the <strong>Properties </strong>box. Type the new name in the name box.</span></span></div>
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Boot any Linux ISO from USB in Windows

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The following tutorial explains how to use Qemu to boot any Linux ISO version from a portable USB flash device while still working within Windows 98, 2000, NT, XP and Vista. This Enables the user to have both systems running at the same time eliminating the need to restart the PC and set your BIOS options to boot Linux from USB.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>NOTE</strong></span>: This tutorial is VERY Old and may not work as intended.</div>
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<strong>Pendrivelinux running on Windows via Qemu Screenshot:</strong></div>
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<img alt="Portable Pendrivelinux Screenshot" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-236" height="338" src="http://www.pendrivelinux.com/wp-content/uploads/qemupendrivelinux.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; padding: 8px 0px;" title="Portable Pendrivelinux Screenshot" width="450" /></div>
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<strong>Qemu Home Page</strong>: <a class="external" href="http://qemu.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #114477; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Qemu Home Page">Qemu.org</a></div>
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<strong>Requirements:</strong></div>
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<li style="margin-left: -15px;"><span style="color: #0066ff;">PC with Windows XP/Vista/7 (32 bit OS only)</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: -15px;"><span style="color: #0066ff;">USB portable storage device</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: -15px;"><span style="color: #0066ff;">Your favorite Live Linux CD image (ISO)</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: -15px;"><span style="color: #0066ff;">Custom StartLinux.exe including Qemu, Kqemu files</span></li>
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<strong>The Process:</strong><a href="http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/StartLinux.zip" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #114477; text-decoration: none;" title="Download the StartLinux.zip file"></a><a href="http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/StartLinux.zip" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #114477; text-decoration: none;" title="Download the StartLinux.zip file"></a></div>
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<li style="margin-left: -15px;">Create a directory on your USB device named <strong>QStart</strong></li>
<li style="margin-left: -15px;"><a href="http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/StartLinux.exe" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #114477; text-decoration: none;" title="Download the self extracting 7-Z StartLinux.exe file">Download</a> the self extracting 7-z <strong>StartLinux.exe</strong> file</li>
<li style="margin-left: -15px;">Run <strong>StartLinux.exe</strong> and extract the contained files to the <strong>QStart</strong>directory on your flash drive</li>
<li style="margin-left: -15px;">Grab your favorite Linux CD (ISO) Image and copy it to the <strong>QStart</strong>directory on the flash drive</li>
<li style="margin-left: -15px;">Double click the <strong>StartLinux.bat</strong> file to boot linux directly from the portable flash device</li>
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Note that Qemu boot is slightly slower than booting directly from the USB flash drive or CD at startup. However, it's nice to be able to run Linux from the device even if the computer doesn't support USB boot. This configuration reserves 256MB of system memory for the virtual Linux operating environment. If you wish to increase or decrease this capacity, edit the -m value on the last line of the StartLinux.bat file.<strong></strong></div>
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<strong>Notes:</strong> Qemu was produced by Fabrice Bellard. For more information, visit the <a class="external" href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #114477; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Qemu Home Page">Qemu site</a></div>
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Boot any Linux ISO from USB in Windows

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How Do I Use WordPad To Send Gmail?

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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You will need to have an e-mail client like LiveMail, Outlook, Thunderbird or the Windows 8.1 Mail app installed on your computer. If you have an 8.1 computer the Mail app is pre-installed. If it is not installed on your Windows 7 computer, you can <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials" style="color: #3b67a5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">download it at this link as part of Windows Essentials.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You will also need to log into your Gmail account in your browser and click on <strong>Settings</strong> in the upper-right of your inbox.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Choose the <strong>Forwarding and POP/IMAP</strong> tab and then select <strong>Enable IMAP</strong> under <strong>IMAP Access.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll need to configure your e-mail client to receive your Gmail. In most cases, that is as simple as putting in your Gmail address and password. For LiveMail, click the + sign in the upper left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Then add your information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll also need to make sure that your e-mail client is the default program for sending things like photos or documents via e-mail. Type “<strong>default programs</strong>” into your <strong>Start Menu</strong> search box or <strong>Windows 8.1 Search Charm</strong> and click on the search result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Select the program you wish to use as your default mail client.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Then click <strong>Choose defaults</strong> for this program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The <strong>Set Associations</strong> window will open. Scroll down to the bottom and check the tick box by <strong>Send mail</strong> command. Then choose save.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When you want to send a WordPad document, just click the drop-down menu in the upper-left and select Send in e-mail. It’s a little bit of a process to get started, but you only need to do it the one time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-69021" height="413" src="http://imgsrv.worldstart.net/images/ct-images/2014/10/sendinemail.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="400" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You could also just save your document, open Gmail in your browser and start a new message. Then click the add attachment symbol at the bottom of your message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-69022" height="369" src="http://imgsrv.worldstart.net/images/ct-images/2014/10/gmailattach.jpg" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="350" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Then select the document to attach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hope this helps.</span></div>
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