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The Daily Grind 1214

by Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, August 23, 2007

Software marches on.

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  • Fast XP on a VPC - Dan Maharry provides a unified guide to slimming down Windows XP and optimizing a Virtual PC image to run it.
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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.

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