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  1. Windows 7 10 great free desktop productivity tools that aren't OpenOffice.org

    Most everyone who's had some experience with free open source software has learned about the OpenOffice.org suite of productivity programs: a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and drawing tool that provide a good deal of the functionality of their commercial counterparts. For...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Backup

    My Acronis True Image 2009 failed. I didn't know that it was incompatible with Windows 7. I made a complete backup (which I presume is an image of drive C using the Windows 7 inbuilt backup. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the Acronis system, but is the built-in system as...
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    Windows 7 Running an old 16-bit program under Windows 7

    Hi all, I have an ancient copy of Foxpro for Windows 2.6 from the early 1990s that I've moved from PC to PC over the years. I don't reinstall from original disks; I just copy the program's directory into \program files\ and it's worked fine on systems up to and including XP3. I did need to...
  4. Windows 7 Net Send replacement

    I am running a medium-size Active Directory domain, based on Windows Server 2003. We are starting to introduce Windows 7 clients in the domain, and I need a way to make so that Windows 7 boxes can receive instant messages sent by the domain admin using the classic "net send" command. Since the...
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    Windows 7 Need a free download manager and a print screen too.

    In XP Pro I used Free Download Manager free with no trouble at all. I also used Gadwin Print Screen free with no trouble. However I haven't been able to see that these two are approved for use in W7. Do any of you know what I could use? Thanks. J.
  6. Windows 7 Tables in WordPad

    WordPad now seems to look like Microsoft Office. I do not have Microsoft Office nor ever intend to. WordPad seems to do pretty much everything I need - except: It doesn't seem to have a way of putting tables into a document. The rtf format allows for tables. It can read documents with...
  7. Is it Windows 7 worth the money?

    As I asked before, Please find something that doesn't have a Linux equivalent or wont run on wine. Before you start naming every video game you can think of, I know, direct x this and direct x that. most games wont work even with wine. An interesting aside however, the most popular online...