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Virtual Machines, Microsoft Security Essentials, Windows 7 Taskbar Toolbars, & Securing Your Router
Webinar #1 was June 12th, at 13:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
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Agenda (Titles will link to specific articles created from the video segments):
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Virtual Machines - What are they? - Because I use a VM to present in webinars, I figured that it'd be a good time to demonstrate what they are and why they're so cool.
Installing MSE - I'll walk through installing and configuring Microsoft Security Essentials.
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Creating your own tool bar in Windows 7 - I use this to replace XP's quick launch bar; I have what I think is a pretty interesting, "I'll bet they didn't plan for this" way of using it.
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Securing your router and WiFi access point - I'll review my router security article and demonstrate how my router and access point are set up.
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Article C4837 - June 5, 2011
Leo A. Notenboom has been playing with computers since he
was required to take a programming class in 1976. An 18 year career as a programmer at Microsoft soon followed.
After "retiring" in 2001, Leo started Ask Leo! in 2003 as a place for answers
to common computer and technical questions. More about Leo.
Like you I missed the quick launch. Using your method I deleted to toolbar name inserted a mydocs shortcut, then shortcuts to folders containing my most frequently used programs. I left the myDocs shortcut exposed, so one click opens Mydocs. Single clicking on the >> brings up the shortcut folders, and a hover opens the correct one for a single click to open my program. So 2 clicks to get what I need is better than using the start menu most of the time, the old quick launch bar, and particularly explorer/libraries, which is what I have been doing. (I keep an empty desktop, but even having the links there usually involves more work.)
Posted by: Rick at June 23, 2011 9:33 AMThanks for the tip.