Quick, can you reel off the security key to your wireless network? No? Can you even find where you saved it? Probably not.

Forget about trying to remember run-of-the-mill passwords. Those wireless network security keys are looooong. There’s no way you are going to remember yours. You’re lucky if you can remember where you wrote it down. Even if you can find it, try typing it correctly on the first try!

Well, here’s a nice bonus for those who have already made the upgrade to Windows 7: you can easily export your wireless settings from one machine to another. You just save the settings on a USB stick and import them right into any computer running Windows.

Check out this tutorial for step-by-step instructions.

Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3) and Office 2003 will go out of support on April 8, 2014. That’s just under two years away, and it may seem strange that we are warning you so “early.” But, according to Microsoft, ” if your organization has not started the migration to a modern PC, you are late.”

Microsoft, with quite a bit of data on such things, has found that average deployment of a new operating system across an entire enterprise can take 18 to 32 months. This average is probably more applicable to much larger companies than are most of our small business audience. But, making the leap from 10-year-old Windows XP and Office 2003 to the very latest Windows operating system and Office suite will be more time-consuming than you anticipate. That’s why we urge you to begin planning now!

Why even bother, you might ask. You and your employees are comfortable and efficient using familiar old XP and Office 2003. But, after April 8, 2014, there will be no new security updates, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates. read more…