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		<title>Finally Fast!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years there have been advertisements on TV for services that can vastly improve the speed of your computer by running a simple tool. I saw one of these ads myself in the past couple of days. I was a little surprised that they&#8217;re still around and making enough money for a national TV spot. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Keeping Cool During Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest dangers to your computer is overheating. Excessive heat can cause the system to malfunction, your hard drive to crash or even damage internal components. Since we&#8217;re coming up on the dog days of summer, here are a few tips to keep your computer cool. The first thing to check is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Closed for Memorial Day Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello, all! A quick heads-up: We will be closed Saturday May 29 through Monday May 31 for Memorial Day. We&#8217;ll be back on Tuesday, June 1 at 10:00am.]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=92</link>
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		<title>Jeff was on NBC4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently interviewed by NBC4 about my thoughts on extended warranties and &#8220;optimization&#8221; services at the big stores. Here are a few thoughts that didn&#8217;t make it into the story: When thinking about extended warranties, you really have to consider two things, how you&#8217;ll use the system and how long you want to keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Holiday Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello, everyone! Just dropping a quick line to let you know that we will be closed Thursday the 24th through Sunday, January 3rd so that we can spend time with our families.  We will be back on Monday, January 4th at 10am. Thank you to all of our customers who have made 2009 a great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 &#8211; My Unofficial review and advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 is big news.  We&#8217;re getting lots of questions about it and people want to know if they should upgrade.   I&#8217;m going to try to answer a few common questions in this blog post. Q.   What do you think of Windows 7? A.  It&#8217;s functional.   It works.   It&#8217;s stable.    I&#8217;m not somebody that ever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s New Security Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me start by saying that I was never a fan of Microsoft&#8217;s Live OneCare,  their antivirus, firewall, internet security type software.  Some time ago, they pulled it from the market;  Maybe in part because it didn&#8217;t sell very well and  because it never really did its job very well, when compared to other products.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Social Engineering and You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I wrote about some of the fake antivirus pop-ups and rogue programs that cause many of the computer problems that we see.   This post is very closely related, but more generalized.   Social engineering is, in short, a means to get people to do something they wouldn&#8217;t otherwise do&#8230;.such as install a virus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=51</link>
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		<title>Memorial Day Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update:  We will be closed Saturday May 23rd and Monday May 25th for Memorial Day weekend.]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=49</link>
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		<title>Wiggling your power plug?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly everyone&#8217;s heard of this one: when you plug your power adapter into your laptop, it only works if you have it in there &#8220;just right.&#8221;  So you wiggle it around, watching that power LED until you find the magic angle and make the connection.  And then hope it stays there. And it seems to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dos-boot.com/blog/?p=42</link>
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