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Previously costing $49.95 a year, in quite possibly its smartest move to date, Microsoft has decided its 360-based Games for Windows Live Gold service should be free for PC users. The service allows online gaming achievements, and chat with other gamers. And if this is all sounding a bit familiar, it's because yes, it is a lot like Steam.

It makes you wonder why Microsoft ever thought it could charge for the service - in essence every service it provides is available free on the internet, and has been since PC gaming's inception. And with Valve's highly polished Steam and Stardock's up-and-coming Impulse offering similar free services, it's hard to see why anyone would even consider signing up for Games for Windows.

In fact, you may even have it installed on your PC without even realizing it. Unlike Steam, which announces its presence in a standalone client, Games for Windows sneakily installs itself with recent games such as Gears of War and Shadowrun. Merely accessing the service from within a game is an arduous task, and online registration seems to have been made as hard as possible.

There are some positive aspects of Games for Windows Live. It enables online play against Xbox 360 users, and Xbox gamer tags can be transferred easily; it includes achievements for single and multiplayer games and features Trueskill matchmaking - which enables players to compete online against players of similar ability. It's also fairly easy for developers to build Games for Windows Live support into their games - THQ, Sega and Eidos support the feature in upcoming games and Epic supports it directly in its omnipresent Unreal Engine 3.

But if Games for Windows Live is really going to match Steam, it will have to improve. Having to launch a game to see your Friends list is a royal pain in the rear, and voice conversations end as soon as you exit a game. If the service was integrated into, say, Windows Messenger, it might work a lot better.

Microsoft seems to be aware of the problems, and is working to sort them out. An update featuring an Xbox Live-style marketplace, with downloadable content such as games and levels, is touted for release later this year. As appropriately-named Games for Windows head honcho Kevin Unangst said, 'It's something that's unique, and will evolve continually to be something PC gamers will love, and designed for PC gamers'. Having said that, it's still got a long way to go if it hopes to compete with Steam.

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It is possible to recover formatted hard drive with powerful software that is available to users. You might have lost files due to accidental deletion or by crashing of hard drive or by being forgetful. The recovery software available in the market helps you to retrieve these lost files very easily.

Do not worry about having permanently lost valuable data - it is easy to retrieve your lost files by fast and simple means. Even if the files have been deleted from the "Recycle Bin" directory or lost because of reformatting of hard drive, due to virus/ Trojan, software failure or system auto shutdown - what ever the reason is, the recovery software applications will successfully pull it back for you.

Sometimes you might delete critically important data by using shift-delete in Windows, deletion from command line or deleting huge files by using programs that bypass the recycle bin.

You can recover this type of lost data and recover formatted hard drive by recovery software. The application can be downloaded from the net and be made available for a small fee. Usually a trial version will be provided for users to understand the features based on which they can decide whether to go for it. An additional attraction would be to have the application cost as refundable within a certain period in case you are not fully satisfied.

The features you get would typically include:

• Facility for instant file recovery from fixed media like hard drives and floppy drives for home users and professionals, network administrators etc

• Ability to scan for recoverable files within minutes

• Option to scan directories and files on hard drives

• Read only approach to file recovery so there is no risk of any data being overwritten

• Ability to recover multiple files at one go in a batch

• Should ignore disk areas that are bad and work around them to recover data unlike other programs that fail in such cases

• Should work on all standard hard drives like IDE/ATA/SCSI hard drives

• Ability to work on drives greater than 8GB in size

• Should be able to recover formatted hard drives formatted with Windows FAT 16, FAT 32 as well as NTFS

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Now it's serious! With the release of Microsoft spyware, you know things have reached a level when even the big guys are standing up and taking notice of the threats posed by spyware. If you believe that your precious PC is protected just because you have an anti-virus program installed on it, you better think again.

The amount of spyware being produced is increasing on a daily basis and it could affect every one of us. And you could end up losing more than just information off your computer. You could have your identity stolen.

Against this background there has been a great deal of activity in the development of anti-spyware software. There is a plethora of different options for you but essentially these programs will scan your computer for harmful spy ware, give you the opportunity to remove them, and then help you to prevent re-infection in the future. Traditionally smaller specialist software companies have dominated the market. Now the mighty Microsoft has entered the fray.

The Microsoft spyware product is currently called Windows Defender. Their route into the market was to buy an existing company called Giant Company Software who already marketed an anti spyware product. They then set about rebuilding and refining the product. Windows Defender is available as a free download to owners of genuine Windows systems. It is also shipped with Windows Vista as an integrated part of the operating system and is enabled by default.

Personally if I was a manufacturer of anti-spyware software I wouldn't be too pleased to see the entry of Microsoft into the market. We all know what happened to Netscape Navigator when Microsoft entered the browser market. Will history repeat itself? Only time will tell.

Maybe a more important question is "Is Microsoft's spyware software any good?" The program has the ability to detect and remove spyware. It also has real-time scanning. This is quite rare in a free spyware program. It is common that you have to upgrade to a 'Professional' (paid) version to get this ability. Tests with other free spyware products show that it compares favorably.

A nice feature is the 'Scheduler' that allows you set a regular time to carry out a scan of your computer. For instance you could set it to run at 8.00pm every night.

Maintaining this type of software so that it is always up to date is a considerable task for any company. With it being Microsoft spyware, you know that the resources are there to make sure that this task is fulfilled.

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A broken Windows doesn't mean that you can't recover your lost data or files on your hard drive. But first you must understand the importance of the 3 boot files your Windows OS, because attempting to clear space on your hard drive may accidentally delete some of your files.

Boot.ini, NTLDR and ntdetect.com are the three boot files in older Windows operating system that may cause errors next time your computer restarts if they are accidentally deleted or become corrupted.

This problem can be solved and at the same time your data or files will be recovered in the process. By using the right procedure, your computer can return to its original state even without the help of a technician. Also there free data recovery tools out there that can make things easier for you.

Using the repair console, you can recover your hard drive data, the Windows XP operating system's installation CDROM is a boot device, you can use it to reboot your computer and the entire repair console is displayed. The procedure can recover your lost data for the following errors displayed when trying to boot your PC.

* Missing or corrupted boot file

* Fatal error reading boot.ini

* Missing NTLDR

If any of the errors above are shown during your computer boot, the hard drive hasn't crashed. Rather, the boot files are just corrupted and needs to be replaced using the Microsoft's installation CDROM. Once you have done this, the lost data on your hard drive will be restored and there will be no information lost.

First is to ensure that you have the proper version of windows inserted in the CDROM, monitor the boot process for some requires pressing some keys during the boot process. If you have been successful, a blue Windows installation screen will appear. You will be given two choices, one is the complete reinstallation of OS and the other is repair console. Choose repair console by pressing "R" key to start the hard drive data recovery.

All you have to do is follow the repair instructions given by the repair console, it will just take a few minutes to recover lost data and files. But take note that if the process fails, your hard drive might be broken, so for an alternative you can try to borrow other hard drive or purchase a new one. But the task may require a technician if you don't know much about troubleshooting.

I am a Windows techie and have been working on computers for the past 25 years. I started out with IBM, but later branched out to Windows based services and now run a small tech support service.

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