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Managing Multiple time zones - 2

In the first part of this topic, I explained how to manage multiple time zones using the additional clocks feature of Windows Vista. However, this approach had two shortcomings:

  • You could only add 2 additional clocks
  • You could not have a permanent view of the various time zones and you had to hover/click the system tray time to view the other clocks.

In this post, we discover a way which allows you to do both of the above.

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Searching beyond the obvious

SearchI talked about the Search features in Windows Vista a couple of weeks ago. We had just barely scratched the surface when it comes to search in Vista at that time.

In this article, I will talk about a few of the less obvious search enhancements available in Vista, which however are far more powerful and useful.

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Running Windows Vista in Windows XP

Windows Vista has been out for quite a long time and a lot of issues have been found and a lot of fixes have come and more are on the way through SP1. A lot of people are making a move to the Vista platform from their Windows XP systems. However, there are many more who cannot move from Windows XP yet even if they could choose to. Most of such people need Windows XP due to work constraints.

This article describes the simple steps to install Windows Vista “within” your Windows XP environment using the freely available Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.

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