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	<title>Reich Consulting - I do WordPress Tutorials and General Computer and Networking Support &#187; Crash Course: Home PC Maintenance</title>
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		<title>Removing ThinkPoint without Task Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A coworker brought me a laptop (accompanied by the required food bribery) and asked me to remove a virus that had started popping up.  I booted up the laptop and, not at all surprisingly, it was infected with a Fake Security Scanner of a new and particularly nasty variety. It was called ThinkPoint and it replaces explorer.exe as your Windows shell, so as soon as you login ThinkPoint is all you see and all you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uninstalling Programs on Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This demonstration video shows you how to uninstall applications on Windows 7.  For this video I intentionally sabotaged my computer with a bunch of applications which I don&#8217;t recommend anyone actually download, just to show viewers the various tricks that some programs play to prevent you from removing them. This is the third video in a series developed for my Home PC Maintenance course. Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>Check Your Hard Drive Space Using Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following video shows you how to check your available hard drive space using Windows 7. It also explains how to use the Disk Cleanup Wizard, Compress, and Index options under the Windows 7 Drive Properties window. This is the second video in a new series I&#8217;ve developed for my Home PC Maintenance course.]]></description>
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		<title>Defragmenting Your Hard Drive on Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿This video I made tonight will teach you how to defragment your hard drives on Windows 7.  This is the first video in a new series I am creating for an upcoming Basic PC Maintenance Course.]]></description>
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		<title>7 System Building Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've built hundreds of PC's in my day.  That includes dozens of one-off systems that I've configured and assembled for my own use as well as for friends, family, and customers. It also includes batches of new systems that I build during the summer at my full-time job. The following are just a couple of tips that I've picked up along the way that make the system-building process as painless as possible.]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of the Thrasher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has worked in the tech support field can tell you: all computers are not created equal.  Even the most popular PC manufacturers happily sell hopelessly under-powered computers to cost-conscious consumers who incorrectly assume that a new computer is a fast computer. Today I'd like to focus on what I call a Thrasher: a computer so poorly configured that it can't perform the simplest of tasks.]]></description>
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		<title>Backing Up Your Files Online</title>
		<link>http://www.reich-consulting.net/2008/11/11/backing-up-your-files-online/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=backing-up-your-files-online</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reich-consulting.net/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard drives crash, USB drives disappear, and laptops get stolen. Sometimes bad things happen to good data. Backing up your files to CD's, DVD's, or an external hard drive doesn't protect you against theft or acts of nature.  Big business uses off-site storage to protect their data, and this article explains how you can apply this technique to personal data on the cheap using free online storage services.]]></description>
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		<title>Defragmenting on Windows XP</title>
		<link>http://www.reich-consulting.net/2008/11/09/defragmenting-on-windows-xp/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=defragmenting-on-windows-xp</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This third article in a multi-part series about defragmentation explains and shows a video example of how to defragment your hard drives on Windows XP.]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Fragmentation Occur?</title>
		<link>http://www.reich-consulting.net/2008/10/30/how-does-fragmentation-occur/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-does-fragmentation-occur</link>
		<comments>http://www.reich-consulting.net/2008/10/30/how-does-fragmentation-occur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second article in my series about file and drive fragmentation.  It explains how a drive becomes fragmented and how you can tell if it requires defragmentation.]]></description>
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		<title>What is Fragmentation?</title>
		<link>http://www.reich-consulting.net/2008/10/29/what-is-fragmentation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-is-fragmentation</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Reich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fragmentation is  one of the primary ailments that infects a slow computer.  You might have heard the word before. Someone might have even taught you how to fix it.  But most of us don&#8217;t know what fragmentation is, how it occurs, and&#8211;unlike a virus or spyware&#8211;why we&#8217;re stuck living with fragmentation in our lives.  Without getting into too many technical details, let me explain what fragmentation is. According to it&#8217;s Wikipedia entry, fragmentation is the [...]]]></description>
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