Now Facebook is preparing for what could be another controversy — certainly a concern to anyone who wants to protect their privacy in uncertain times when human resources departments seem to be looking for just about any excuse to let someone go. Facebook is preparing to “index” your personal information — today. What does that mean?

Potentially all of your crazy life — the embarrassing photos, the dumb-ass things you and your friends say to each other, your brother’s fart joks, and that one day when you seemed to be on a manic-depressive landslide — will be opened to search engines such as Google and Bing, leading, perhaps, to a Wikipedia about you that you don’t control. Without going all Orwellian, how can you protect yourself from, well, yourself?

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If you go to your Facebook profile’s “Settings” page, you can enter “privacy settings” and then “search.” From there, toggle the option that allows indexing. Yes it is confusing. Indexing means all your crap will end up on some search engine. And experts will tell you that once information has been picked up by a search engine, it is pretty hard to remove.

Millions of users are expected to enter the search engines today.

Why is Facebook doing this? Probably because of Twitter, which has a deal with Bing to index tweets. In other words, Facebook could become more competitive with Twitter, giving its users no need to tweet when a status update on Facebook can accomplish the same thing.

That is, if it’s on a search engine.

The big question is whether every Facebook user will be advanced to have the privacy settings where they want them. And, if not, whether Facebook will lose users who came under the assumption that they were joining a private, electronic world. You can ask Brangelina about that. Source

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For instance, if you have Windows Vista Home premium you can upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium. You can also go from Vista Business to Windows 7 Professional, and from Vista Ultimate to 7 Ultimate. Any other upgrade, like Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional, will require a clean install. That means you can’t just turn Vista into 7. You have to export all your data, erase the hard drive, and then reinstall all your applications and data. A lot of computer experts think you should do a clean install anyway, just to make sure your machine runs better.

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But if you’re lucky enough to be able to do an in-place upgrade and want to, here’s what you do.

First back up your data. Just to be safe, I recommend Macrium Reflect as a great way to image your drive.

Next, put in the install DVD and select Run setup.exe.

Press continue.

If you’re unsure whether Windows 7 will run, press Check compatibility online. Though really you should check that before you buy Windows 7. It will take you to a Web page where you can download and run the Windows 7 upgrade adviser. But if you’re sure you’re compatible, go ahead and click Install now.

Windows 7 will begin copying temporary files and start the install. It will first ask you if you want to go online to get the latest updates. I recommend you do it; it could save you some time later. Then agree to the terms that you have fully read and understand.

Select Upgrade. Windows will check compatibility and then begin copying files. After awhile, probably hours not minutes, you’re machine will start back up into Windows 7!

Now you may have some settings that didn’t transfer and are overwritten by Windows 7 defaults. Most notorious are the programs in your taskbar. So, be ready to do some tweaking to get things just exactly the way you like them. Also since you didn’t start fresh some quirks in Vista may carry over to 7. But most won’t.

Overall, it’s a much simpler and faster process than the clean install. Microsoft Windows 7. (Source)

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