Way back in WinXP times and before, I would always connect all of my PCs at one desk together to a single set of speakers. The only special software/hardware this required were some extra 3.5mm audio cables and a set of ordinary speakers. The software to do this was built into Windows XP and just required some intelligent checkboxes to be selected. However, the native ability to do this with both Windows Vista and Windows 7. Luckily, with a registry hack, it is possible to still get this behavior with both operating systems!

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With Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 recently going RTM, I’ve found myself installing them in quite a few different configurations. One configuration that I’ve recently ran into is installing it into a machine with no CD drive of any means. I know I could carry around a USB-based DVD drive but instead, I wanted to have a USB pen drive to install it from. After some research, I found that it was relatively easy to create such a tool!

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So I was at work today with my 24″ LCD thinking, “Man, I wish I had a convenient way to organize/resize my windows such that I could see several at once beyond a generic ‘Tile Windows’ configuration.” So I remembered a little utility that kinda did this with a laptop I bought a couple years back by Acer called “Vista Grid”. But that didn’t quite tickle my fancy so I looked for some better alternatives.

The search led me to WinSplit Revolution (WSR). Yeah, it’s kind of a cheap-sounding name (kinda like www.superantispyware.com, which, by the way, is one of the better free anti-spyware apps out there!), but I really like it, plus it’s totally free!

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