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7Tutorials.com - Genuine Help For Windows 7

Ciprian — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:53:39 +0000

Our editorial team is very happy to announce the launch of our new site: 7 Tutorials - Genuine Help for Windows 7. As the name implies, this site will be aimed at Windows 7 users and will offer quality tutorials for all users of the upcoming operating system from Microsoft. If you are already using a test version of Windows 7 or you plan to use it in the near feature, don't hesitate to visit www.7tutorials.com and save it in your list of bookmarks & favorites. For those of you who want to know more, we also have a little presentation called 'Reasons To Visit 7tutorials.com'. To see it, click on read more.

Best Windows Website Contest 2009

Ciprian — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:43:26 +0000

Our friends from the Windows Club have launched a new competition called 'Best Windows Website Contest 2009'. The contest just started and it is open to submissions. If you run a website, including a blog or a forum, which primarily focuses on Microsoft Windows, you are invited to participate in this contest. The first 50 sites which are submitted will receive a 1-year license for a-squared Anti-Malware. If you are interested to participate, submit your entries here.

Will Windows 7 Have The Same Problems As Windows Vista?

George — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:52:42 +0000

Windows Vista's launch was a very troubled one with plenty of issues which quickly created a very negative image for this operating system. Six months after its launch, we ran a survey to identify the top problems users were confronted with. The results were very clear. Our readers said that the top issues were the lack of proper drivers (36% of votes) and application compatibility issues (36% of votes). These two, combined with a very weak offering of security solutions seriously impacted their user experience.

In this article I will go through each of these areas and share with you the current status on Windows Vista plus the outlook for the upcoming Windows 7 launch. Will Windows 7 share the same issues at launch?

How To Help Our Team

Ciprian — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:20:06 +0000

If you are one of the many readers who are very happy with the content we provide, you might want to know that there are many ways you can say "Thank You!". In this short blog post, I will give you a few suggestions on how you can help the editorial team. As you will see, there are many ways in which you can chip in. Some of them will require only a few seconds of your time.

Interview with Ciprian, the owner of Windows Vista for Beginners

Ciprian — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:51:21 +0000

Back in the summer of 2007, we started a small series of interviews entitled "Getting to know the Microsoft enthusiasts". Up until now we interviewed five people, all of them passionate bloggers about Windows Vista and Microsoft products, bloggers which help people by writing great tutorials and finding solutions to computing problems. The folks from The WinVista Club have decided to interview the interviewer, and they have published an interview with me.

Windows Vista for Beginners in 2008 - The good, the bad and the future

Ciprian — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:46:27 +0000

Another year has passed and our site is almost two years old. 2008 has been a good year for us in many ways, with its share of success, failures and lessons learned. Today, I will tell you about 2008 and what it has meant for the Windows Vista for Beginners team.

Tweak your Windows Vista for free with the Ultimate Windows Tweaker

Ciprian — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:37:54 +0000

Our friends from The WinVista Club have recently released a nice little tool called Ultimate Windows Tweaker. As you can imagine, the tool allows you to tweak lots of aspects in Windows Vista. For a complete list of available tweaks (over 130 in total), check out the tweaks page.

How to make Windows 7 the best Microsoft OS ever

Ciprian — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:31:27 +0000

Last month, we published an article called Windows 7 and Windows Vista features that need to be fixed. The purpose of the article was to start a constructive discussion with Windows Vista users about what they believe Microsoft should improve or add to Windows 7. With the help of other Windows Vista sites, we managed to spread the word about this idea and we have received lots of constructive feedback. Here is what Windows Vista users had to say:

Vote for us in 'The Best Windows Vista Website' competition

Ciprian — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:43:07 +0000

Our friends from the The WinVista Club are running a competition who will decide which is the best Windows Vista website on the internet. The panel of judges have named our site as one of the finalists in this competition. The winner will be chosen by public voting. If you want to vote, please click here and submit your opinion.

We encourage you to visit all the finalists and vote for the site which has the best original content of interest & use to a Windows Vista user.