Archive for January, 2011

How To Fix Sound Issues In Windows 7

Monday, January 24th, 2011

For reasons that I can’t figure out, my Windows 7 laptop thinks that everything’s fine with the sound system, but I can’t actually hear anything when I try to play music or watch videos on YouTube. Is there some easy way to diagnose these sort of sound or audio problems on Win7?

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How To Stop Automatic Updates In Windows 7

Monday, January 10th, 2011

I’m working with a group of software developers and recently had a problem where my copy of Windows 7 automatically updated to change something and the app we’re building stopped working on my computer. After we figured out what had happened they told me to disable the automatic system update feature in Windows 7. But how do I turn the autoupdate feature off, it seems like it’s built-in to Microsoft Windows now??

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