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The Simon Sez IT Tech Show - #20 - How to Speed Up Your Old Computer

Welcome to show #20. During this podcast, I’ll mention some ways to speed up that old computer. If you’re considering buying a new computer since you’re current is running too slow, listen to this show first! You may save a few dollars. And, even if you do decide to purchase a new computer, these practical [...]

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How to Create a Vista Shutdown Shortcut

In a few steps, you can create a Windows Vista shutdown your desktop - an easier and faster way to shutdown Vista.

Right click on your desktop and select “New”
Select the “Shortcut” option
When the New Shortcut wizard appears, type shutdown -s -t 01 in the location field.
Click the “Next“ button to finish the shortcut
After the shortcut [...]

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How to Clear My Recent Documents List in Windows

In a few steps, it is easy to clear the “My Recent Documents” list in Windows:

Right-click Start and choose Properties
Click the Customize button
Click the Advanced tab
Click Clear List, and then click OK twice|
The entries in your My Recent Documents menu disappear

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How to Use the Vlookup Function in Excel 2007

The Vertical Lookup/Vlookup/Lookup function in Excel grabs information from another location based on some key or value.  Consider the Vlookup function the Excel 2007 lookup workhorse, so it’s important to know how to use it.
Watch our free video tutorial explaining how to use the Excel 2007 Vlookup function.
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Using the Google Chrome Browser – The Chrome Task Manager

In this Google Chrome browser tutorial video, we discuss the Google Chrome Task Manager. This feature alone makes the Chrome browser a very secure and cool browser technology. Using the Chrome Task Manager, you can close one tab which is really a single process for each tab, without having to close the entire Chrome application. [...]

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