IT Pro at Home: Tips and Tricks

By day, technology is your job: you troubleshoot, architect, code, install, and administer. By night, technology is a big part of the things you do for fun. You game, blog, build PCs, fix digital pictures, spin tunes, and make movies.

The IT Pro at Home zone is dedicated to you—the IT pro who understands that the line between work and play is sometimes hard to draw, particularly when friends and family come around with questions. From building your own search connections to streaming television over multiple PCs in your home group, learn cool trips, tricks, and secrets to help you become an expert on Microsoft’s newest operating system.

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Windows Search

Windows Search helps you find information on your computer, on your network, or even on the Internet. This screencast shows you how Windows Search can make Windows 7 your one-stop-search-shop at work and at home.

Friday, May 1, 2009

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